Prologue: The Story Of Psychology Flashcards

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Basic research

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Builds on psychology’s knowledge base. Has long term goals.

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Descartes

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Believed in nature, dualism.

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Applied research

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Uses what we know to benefit others. Applies research to everyday life (short term problems)

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APA

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American psychological association

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Monism

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Soul and body can’t be separated

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Plato

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Nature rather than nurture

First to suggest that brain (in head) was responsible for our mental process

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Aristotle

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Plato’s student, empiricism, nurture, monist

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Industrial/organizational psychology

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Studies and advises on behavior in the workplace.

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Cognitive neuroscience

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Study of brain activity linked to mental activity

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Clinical psychology

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To study, assess, and treat troubled people with psychotherapy

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Humanistic psychology

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Maslow+Rogers

Current environment influences on growth potential and need for love and acceptance

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Jean Piaget

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Swiss biologist

Studied cognitive development of children

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Carl Rogers

Abraham Maslow

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Humanistic psychology

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John B. Watson

B.E. Skinner

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Behaviorist (overt behavior)

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Edward Bradford Titchener

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Used introspection

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Introspection

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Study of the structure of the mind

Asking people what they perceived

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Structuralism

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Study of the structure of the mind (introspection)

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Social cultural psychology

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How behaviors and thinking vary across situations and cultures

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Wilhelm Wundt

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First psychological experiment. Studied how it long it takes to know what you feel.

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Dualism

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Soul and body are separated

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Psychiatry

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Medical prof. Use drugs and psychotherapy to treat psychologically diseased patients

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Cognitive psychology

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How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.

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Counseling psychology

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Helps people cope with academic, vocational, and marital challenges.

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Margaret Washburn

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First woman with a PhD from Harvard. Wrote ‘ the animal mind’, studied memory and the mind. Second female president if the APA.

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Biopsychosocial Approach
Psychology's 3 main levels of analysis (biological, psychological, social-cultural)
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``` Nature vs Nurture Aristotle Plato John Locke Rene Descartes Charles Darwin ```
``` Plato-ideas are inborn Aristotle-empiricism John Locke- blank slate Rene Descartes-ideas are innate, dualism Charles Darwin-natural selection, adaption ```
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Psychoanalysis
Freud: importance of subconscious and effects on human behavior
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Mary Calkins
Jame's student, APA's first female president, studied memory
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Functionalism
How things work( how does the nose function?)
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Signing Freud
Austrian physician | Created psychoanalysis
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Principles of psychology
William James's textbook ("the science of mental life")
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Neuroscience
How the body and brain enables emotions
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William James
Wrote first textbook(the principles of psychology), functionalist, Harvard professor, taught Mary
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Behaviorism
How we learn observable responses
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Charles Darwin ( the evolutionary perspective)
Adaptation