psych notes from tuesday

Question 1

associated with the theory of functionalism and challenged structuralism

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william james

Question 2

william james’ nationality is ____ and he taught classes at

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American

harvard

Question 3

studies how someone uses perceptual abilities to adapt and function in the environment. There is a constant flow of information into our consciousness, mental associations allow us to benefit from previous experiences

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functionalism

Question 4

who is the first applied psychologist

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william james

Question 5

field of psychology that studies mental processes in the broadest sense, interested in how people acquire knowledge, process info. and then use results to problem solve and make sense out of things.
believes mental processes such as memory and thoughts should be studies scientifically.

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cognitive psychology

Question 6

field of psychology that is our tendency to see patterns and complete pictures from a few clues such as a tree rather than branches and leaves. Means whole rather than parts.
paved way for modern study of perception

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gestalt psychology

Question 7

best known pioneer of psychology

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sigmund freud

Question 8

freud had the revolutionary notion that the unconscious desires

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controlled our behavior

Question 9

lie on the couch and tell me your dreams and whatever comes to your mind

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free association

Question 10

personality theories that states behavior results from psychological factors that we are often unaware of

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psychodynamic theory

Question 11

our innate needs to grow and to fufill or best possible potential

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humanistic

Question 12

developed humanistic psychology

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abraham maslow

Question 13

this person emphasized human potential, focus on mental health, and self understanding rather than mental illness. Made important contributions in study of motivation and emotions

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abraham maslow

Question 14

another psychologist known for humanistic psych

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carl rogers

Question 15

psychologists that study the differences in people that are caused by different persistent characteristics and internal dispositions called traits and temperaments

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trait and temperament psychologists

Question 16

stimuli in the environment and previous consequence determine our behavior

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behvaioral perspective

Question 17

studied observable and measurable behavior. Conducted famous study where he conditioned his baby to be fearful of fuzzy things

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john b watson

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observable and measurable behavior

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behaviorism

Question 19

john b watson based his theory on the work of

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ivan pavlov

Question 20

john b watson said that humans as babies were

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blank slates

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russian physiologist that conducted study on dogs saliva

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Ivan pavlov

Question 22

showed that fears could be eliminated by conditioning

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mary carver jones

Question 23

successfuly conditioned a boy to not be afraid of rabbits

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mary carver jones

Question 24

He was the behaviorist that added concept of reinforcement. He would reinforce subjects for behaving he way he wanted them to

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B.F. skinner

Question 25

used rats and pigeons with the concept of reinforcement. Every time that disk on the wall was pecked- food would drop

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B.F. Skinner

Question 26

a sample is a sub group of the

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population