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Psychology Notes Test 1 Flashcards

1
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Primitive Stage

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Roots from folklore, mythology, entities

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Animism

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Belief that spirits are everywhere

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Early Greek Influence

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Non-scientific, not much investigation

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Plato

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Religious man, conceived the idea that everyone has a soul (miniature embodiment of the Greek city-state)
“Reason rule over desire”

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5
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Aristotle

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Closest to a true scientist

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6
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Psychology in the Middle Ages

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Church was the source of all knowledge

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Galileo

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Criticized by the church

Opened the way for true science by discovering the telescope

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Francis Bacon

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Social psychologist

Advocate for practical/empirical thinking

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Descartes

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Developed the mind-body theory that stated that the mind and the physical world only interact at the pineal gland
“I think, therefore I am.”

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Pineal Glad

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Associated with melatonin

Located at the base of the brain

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Von Helmholtz

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Involved in experimental psychology
Measured the speed of nerve impulses
Came up with the theory of vision and hearing

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12
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Fechner

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Involved in psychophysics

Studied relationships between physical characteristics of stimuli and the sensations they produce

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13
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17th Century

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Age of Enlightenment

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18th Century

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Age of Reason

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19th Century

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Age of Progress

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20th Century

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Age of Anxiety

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21st Century

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Age of Technology

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18
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Saul

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Suffered manic depressive episodes/bipolar disorder

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19
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Cambyses

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First alcoholic on record

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20
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Nebuchadnezzar

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Delusional disorder

Thought he was a wolf/lycanthropy

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21
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Hercules

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Suffered from a seizure disorder

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22
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Ajax

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Experienced hallucinations

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23
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Tamerlane

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Fetish for women’s underwear

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24
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George III

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Acute mania

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25
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Rousseau

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“Back to nature”

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26
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Mozart

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Paranoia

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27
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Beethoven

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Paranoia

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28
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Van Gogh

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Seizure disorder

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29
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Asylums

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Set up in Spain

Influenced by the Moors

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30
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Demonology

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Common during the Middle Ages

Caused conversion disorders

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31
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Avicenna and Rhazes

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Doctors that kept demonology out of Arabia

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32
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Willing Possession

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Cohort of Satan

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33
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Unwilling Possession

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Punishment from God

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34
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Hippocrates

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Father of Medicine
Came up with the personality theory (every man is a miniature embodiment of air, earth, fire, and water)
Very into vivisection and letting blood

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35
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Galin

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Expanded Hippocrates’ theory

Studied the nervous system

36
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Bethlehem Royal Hospital

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Located in London and renamed Bedlam

37
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Behavioral Science

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Heredity x Time x Environment = Developmental Level

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Structuralist School

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Started by Wundt
Study of conscious experiences
Titchener was Wundt’s biggest fan and was a professor at Cornell

39
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Functionalist School

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Started by Dewey and James

Study of man’s adjustment to his environment

40
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William James

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Wrote Principles of Psychology

First American-born psychologist

41
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Behaviorist School

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Started by Watson, Pavlov, and Thorndike
Study of man’s overt behavior which they believe was determined by a complex system of independent stimulus-response connections

42
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B. F. Skinner

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Stimulus-Response Psychology
Learning Processes
Expanded on Watson

43
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Gestalt School

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Started by Wertheimer, Koffka, Kohler, and Perls
“A whole is worth more than the sum of its parts”
Believe you should study the entirety of behavior

44
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Four Parts of Psychoanalysis

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  1. Early childhood experiences
  2. Unconscious motivation
  3. Personality structure
  4. Psychosexual stages
45
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Piaget

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Studied cognitive psychology
Grouping of child development
Qualities that distinguish humans from other animals

46
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Carl Rogers

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Studied humanistic psychology

Focused on “person-centered therapy”

47
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Maslow

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Developed the Hierarchy of Needs

Came up with the principle of self-actualization

48
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Galton

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Functionalist

Studied human abilities and individual differences

49
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Building Blocks of Psychology

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Stimulus-Response
Studying the entire organism
Adjustment

50
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Organs of Adjustment

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Includes organs of adjustment and organs of maintenance

51
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Organs of Maintenance

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Stomach, lungs, intestines, glands

52
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Field Study Approach

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Oldest method

Observing without someone knowing

53
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Introspection

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Looking inside of yourself

54
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Life History Approach

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Study a particular behavior pattern and trace it back

55
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Day Book Approach

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Keeping track of daily events

56
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Clinical Approach

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More detailed record of events

57
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Biographical Method

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Analyzing a person based on what has been written about them

58
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Dimensions

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Qualities used by psychologists to classify behavior

59
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BITCH Test

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Used to measure intelligence in people from other cultures

60
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Oral Stage

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Sucking (birth-8mos)

Biting (8mos-18mos)

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Anal Stage

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18mos-3yrs

Processes of elimination

62
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Phallic Stage

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3yrs-7yrs

Exhibitionism and childish masturbation

63
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Latent Stage

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4yrs-12yrs
Sexuality is repressed
Pressure is exerted from outside sources

64
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Genital Stage

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12yrs-21yrs
Final stage of psychosexual development
Awakening of all of the sexual urges

65
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Endocrine System

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Series of ductless glands that secrete hormones that flow into the bloodstream
Regulatory glands

66
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Hypothalamus

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Master control center of the endocrine system

Located in the lower brain stem

67
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Pituitary Gland

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Impacts physical development

Located on the underside of the brain

68
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Dwarfism

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Underfunctioning hormone

69
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Gigantism

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Overfunctioning hormone

70
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Acromegaly

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Oversecretion of a hormone later in life and does not involve the entire body

71
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Thyroid Gland

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Impacts metabolism

Produces an iodine-protein solution known as thyroxine

72
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Cretinism

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When the thyroid is not producing thyroxine at a young age

73
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Islets of Langerhans

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Maintain sugar and insulin balance

74
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Alpha Cells

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Produce glucagon

75
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Beta Cells

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Produce Insulin

76
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Type I

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Sugar diabetes

77
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Type II

78
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Sex Glands

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Secrete hormones and have an impact on development and behavior

79
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Adolescence

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10-11 for girls; sexual peak at 35

13-14 for boys; sexual peak at 19

80
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Male Sex Hormones

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Testicular androgens

81
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Female Sex Hormones

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Estrogen and progesterone

82
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Adrenal Glands

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Located on the upper kidney

83
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Adrenal Medulla

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Inner core

Influenced by nervous system

84
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Adrenal Cortex

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Affects maturation, especially masculinity

85
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Virilism

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Overabundance of body hair and deep voice

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