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Psychology

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Scientific study of behavior and mental process

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Wilhem Wundt

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Father of psychology

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Titchener and Structuralism

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Titchener introduced structuralism, which is an early study of psychology that used introspection to explore the structure of the human mind

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Introspection

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Looking inward and self reflection, Wave 1

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Psychodynamic/ Psychoanalytic

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Past experiences, Dreams, Unconscious, Created by Sigmund Freud

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William James and functionalism

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A school of psychology that focuses on mental and behavior process function

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Mary Whiton Calkins and Margaret Floy Washburn

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Calkins was a distinguished memory researcher and American psychological associations president

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Nature Vs. Nurture

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Nature: Born
Nurture: How you were raised, Learned

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Humanistic

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Self Actualization, Social Hierarchy of needs

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Pychoanalytic/Psychodynamic

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Past, Childhood, Unconscious, Sigmund Freud

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Biopsychology Perspective

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Considers biological psychological and socio-cultural approach

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Evolutionary Perspective

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from generation to generation (Evolved 6 Finger)

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Behavioral Perspective

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Learned behaviors

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Cognitive Perspective

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How we process, store, retrieve, store info

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Socio-Cultural Perspective

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How behavioral and thinking is transmitted through social and cultural environments

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Wave One

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Introspection

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Who was the father of psychology?

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William Wundt

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When was the first psychology lab created and by who?

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1879

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Who introduced structuralism?

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Edward Tichener, William Wundts student

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Structuralism

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Looked at the structure of humans mind

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Who was the first american psychologist?

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William James

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Who was William James and what did he do?

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William James was the first american psychologist. He wrote the first textbook, gave the first lecture. He followed introspection to see the functions of the mind.

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James studied what?

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Function of the brain

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Wundt studied what?

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Structure of the brain

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What was Wave two?

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Gestalt Psychology

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What does Gesalt mean and what wave was it?

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Gestalt means whole. It was known as the second wave.

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What was wave three?

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Psychoanalysis/Psychodynamic

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Who created Psychoanalysis?

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Sigmund Freud

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What did Freud believe?

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Past childhood traumatic events and unconscious and subconscious thoughts caused us to be the way we are

30
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Who believe unconscious thoughts controlled who we are?

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Sigmund Freud

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What was wave four?

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Behaviorism

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Do behaviorists believe in mental processes?

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No. They believe in modifying behavior only.

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Whats exposure therapy?

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Being introduced to a fear at different exposures in order to get over the fear. Example: Exposure to roller coasters would be fixed by going on baby coasters first but then working your way up to big roller coasters in order to get over the fear.

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What approach doesn’t focus on mental processes?

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Behavioral approach, known as wave four

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Whats classical conditioning?

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Reward and reinforcers to modify behavior

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Little Albert

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Exposure experiment. Albert was exposed to little white furry objects from hearing a loud noise every time he touched a mouse.

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Who agreed with using reinforcers?

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Skinner

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What current wave are we in?

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5-Ecentric

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goal of behaviorism?

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modify behavior

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Cognitive

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Thinking, Processing, Storing Information

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Industrial Organizational Psychology

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Studies relationships between people and their work environment.

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Educational Psychology

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Study of the learning process

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Social Psychology

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Interested in interactions with others

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Study of behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

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Refers to any action that we can observe and record

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Behavior

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Refers to the internal subjective experiences we infer from behavior

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Mental Processes

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Is introspection reliable?

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No

48
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First female president of the American Psychological Association was..

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Mary Calkins

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First women who received a Ph.D in psychology was..

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Margaret Washburn

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