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Psych - Module 1 Flashcards

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Cognitive

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Focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.

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Behaviorism

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Focuses on how we learned observable responses.

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Functionalism

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Theory that emphasizes the functions of the mind and how consciousness helped people adapt to their environment.

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Applied Research

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Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems.

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Gestalt

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Psychological system that focuses on how people organize their perceptions and combined sensory elements to produce new patterns.

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Humanistic

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A system focusing on the study of conscious experience, freed will, and capacity for personal growth.

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Positive Psychology

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Focuses on the study of optimal human functioning and the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive.

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Psychoanalysis

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Psychodynamic Perspective; it focuses on how behaviour springs from unconscious drives and conflicts.

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Basic Research

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Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base.

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Perspective

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A means of classifying a collection of ideas that grows into a movement.

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Structuralism

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Theory that emphasizes analyzing components of conscious thought to determine its structure.

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Behavior Genetics

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Focused on how much our heredity/genes and our environment influence individual differences.

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Psychology

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The scientific study if the mind and behavior.

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What is the Psychodynamic Perspective?

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“Focusing on the inner person.” Unconscious drives, memories and conflicts determine personality and behavior.

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Who is Sigmund Freud?

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Developed the theory of psychoanalysis.

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What are the 5 Psychological Perspectives?

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Cognitive
Evolutionary/Biological
Sociocultural
Behavioral
Humanistic
Psychodynamic
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Who is Erik Erikson?

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Created the Stages of Psychosocial Development with each stage presenting a crisis or conflict that the individual must resolve.

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Who is Jean Piaget?

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Studied cognitive perspective.

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What is assimilation?

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The process in which people understand an experience based on their currents state of cognitive developments and ways of thinking.

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What is accommodation?

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Changes in existing ways of thinking in response to encounter with new stimuli or events.

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Who is Lev Vygotsky?

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Russian Psychologist who studied sociocultural theory.

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What is the sociocultural theory?

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A full understanding of development is impossible without taking into account the culture/setting/situation in which children develop. (influenced by others)

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What is Behavioral Perspective?

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“Considering the outer person.” All behaviour is learned as a response to external stimuli.

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Who are John B. Watson and B.F Skinner?

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Founders of behaviourism and studied classical and operant conditioning.

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What is classical conditioning?

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Learning to respond in a particular way to a neutral stimulus. (going to class when hearing the bell)

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What is operant conditioning?

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When a stimulus (reward) is provided that increases the probability that a preceding behaviour will be repeated. Or a punishment is provided, decreasing it.

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What is Albert Bandura’s theory?

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The social-cognitive learning theory; seeing the behaviour of a model being rewarded, and we are likely to imitate the behaviour.

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Carl Rogers

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Suggested that all people have a need for unconditional positive regard that results from an underlying wish to be loved and respected.

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Who is Abraham Maslow?

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Created the Hierarchy of Needs. Self-actualization is a primary goal in life.

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What are the stages of the Hierarchy of Needs?

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Physiological Needs
Safety Needs
Belongingness and Love Needs
Esteem Needs
Self-Actualization
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What is Sociocultural Perspective?

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Each person is significantly affected by interactions among a number of overlapping ecosystems.

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Who is Urie Bronfenbrenner?

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Studied sociocultural perspective using a three-system model of microsystem, ecosystem, and macrosystem.

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What is the Evolutionary Perspective?

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A theory that stresses that behaviour is strongly influenced by biology, and evolution.

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Who is Wilhelm Wundt?

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  • Father of psych
  • founder of modern psych
  • first psych lab
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What is free association?

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A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says what’s on their mind.

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Define unconscious

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A region of the mind full of unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories.

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Define id

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Aggressive and sexual drives operating from the pleasure principle.

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Define super ego.

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Internalized ideals and standards. What we should do, not what we’d like to do.

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Define ego

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Mediator that makes decision. Operating from the reality principle satisfying the id and superego.

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Who is William James?

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  • first psych text

- first american psychologist

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