Psychological Approaches/Perspectives and Other Terms(Unit 1)

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Biological

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How body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences, how genes combine with environment to influence individual differences

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Evolutionary

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How natural selection of traits promoted the survival of genes

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Psycho dynamic

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How behavior comes from unconscious drives and conflicts

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Behavioral

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How we learn observable responses

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Cognitive

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How we encode,process,store,and retrieve information

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Humanistic

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How we meet our needs for love,acceptance,and achieve self-accomplishment

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Social - Cultural

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How behavior and thinking depend on certain situations and cultures

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Biopsychosocial Approach

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An approach that involves psychological, biological, and social cultural levels of analysis

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Biological Psychology

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Studies connections between biological and psychological processes

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Evolutionary Psychology

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Studies roots of behavior and mental processes using principles of natural selection

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Psycho-dynamic Psychology

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Studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders

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Behavioral Psychology

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Scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation through principles of learning

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Cognitive Psychology

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Scientific study of all mental activities connected to thinking, remembering, knowing ,and communicating

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Social-Cultural Psychology

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Study of how situations and cultures influence our behavior and thinking

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Psycho metrics

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Scientific study of measurement of human abilities, traits and attitudes

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Basic Research

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Pure science which tries to increase the scientific knowledge base

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Developmental Psychology

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Scientific study of physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

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Educational Psychology

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Study of how psychological processes affect and enhance teaching and learning

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Personality Psychology

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Study of persons characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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Social Psychology

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Scientific study of how we think about, influence and, relate to others

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Applied Research

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Scientific study that tries to solve practical problems

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Industrial-Organizational (I/O) Psychology

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Is the application of psychological concepts and methods to improve human behavior in workplaces

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Human Factors Psychology

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Study of how people and machines interact resulting in the design of machines and environments

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Counseling Psychology

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Branch of psychology which helps people with problems in life(usually related to school, work,and relationships) in order to achieve a better well being

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Clinical Psychology

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Studies,assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders

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Psychiatry

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Branch of medicine which deals with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy

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SQ3R

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A study method involving 5 steps: Survey,Question Read, Rehearse, and Review

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Why is Wilhelm Wundt important in psychology?

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Him and his students studied the "atoms of the mind" by conduction experiments at Leipzig Germany in 1879. He was founder of first psychology laboratory

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Why is Edward Titchner important in psychology?

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He introduced structuralism which used introspection(looking inward) to explore structural elements of the human mind

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Why is William James important in psychology?

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He promoted functionalism which focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function i.e. how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish

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Why is Margaret Floy important in psychology?

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Was first woman to receive a psychology PhD

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Why is Sigmund Freud important in psychology?

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His controversial ideas influenced the self understanding of humans; him and his followers emphasized the significance of the unconscious mind and its effects on human behavior

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Why are John Watson and B.F. Skinner important in psychology?

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They emphasized the study of overt behavior as the subject matter of scientific psychology

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Why are Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers important in psychology?

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They emphasized current environmental influences on our growth potential and our need for love and acceptance

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What is psychology?

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It's defined as scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Applied Psychology

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Studies behaviors and mental processes in order to do something with it.

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Contemporary psychology

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Is the study of behavior and mental processes; think, Aristotle and Locke: Tabula Rasa - blank slate = nurture

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Psychiatrists

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Medical professionals who use treatments for example drugs and psychotherapy to treat psychologically ill patients unlike psychologists who just treat people with psychotherapy