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Psychology Quiz 1 Flashcards

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What is psychology?

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Understanding all the things that we do

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Where did Psychology originate?

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Europe

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2 different branches of science that combined into Psychology

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Physiology and Philosophy

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Wundt is known as a _____________. He was interested in what?

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Voluntarist; volitional or conscious behavior (the way we think when we’re awake)

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When and where did Wundt found the first psychology lab??

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Leipzig, Germany in 1879

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Founded an early psychology lab at Wellesley College, first woman president of APA

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Mary Whiton Calkins (didn’t get her PhD because Harvard was a butthole…Radcliffe)

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First woman to earn a PhD in Psychology

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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Did pioneer work on adolescent development and fallacy of women’s inferiority

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Leta Stetter Hollingworth

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First president of APA, exposed scholars in the US to Freud’s psychoanalytic theories

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G. Stanley Hall

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World famous for his psychoanalytic theory

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Sigmund Freud

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Attempts to explain motivation, personality, and mental disorders by focuses on the unconscious

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Freud’s psychoanalytic theory

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Widely remembered for collective unconsciousness theory, split from Freud

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Carl Jung

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Works off of introspection (experiences such as sensations, feelings, and images), founded by Titchener

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Structuralism

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Purpose is to understand the purpose or behavior of or consciousness

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Functionalism
Influenced by Darwin and natural selection
“stream of consciousness” –> looks more to flow of thoughts rather than components

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“Free will is an illusion”, most influential psychologist to date. Humans and animals only do things because of a positive outcome

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Skinner

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Skinner, Pavlov, Watson are considered _______?

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Behaviorists

17
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Argued for free will, said that humans are free with the potential for personal growth, different from animals
Key is to recognize your potential and feel better about yourself

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Carl Rogers

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Involves the study of thoughts and mental processes; Human behavior can only be understood by researching internal thoughts. “The way people think is the way they;re going to behave”

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Cognitive Perspective

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Advocate that organism’s function deals more with how you act rather than thoughts

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Biological Perspective

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Believed that electrical stimulation to the brain could evoke pleasure or rage in animals

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Olds

21
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2 different sides of the brain that have their own mental tasks

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Sperry

22
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Study the evolutionary basis of behavior in humans and animals. What helps animals live will be passed down

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Evolutionary Perspective

23
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Focus on the positives of people to help human psychology

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Seligman

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APS established in ________ to serve as an advocate for the science of psychology. Believed the APA was too dominated by clinicians

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American Psychological society; 1988.

25
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12 Subdisciplines of Psychology

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1) developmental-are people developing according to their age
2) cognitive- thought process
3) personality- how/why people act
4) Psychometrics- math/statistics
5) experimental- study traditional topics
6) health- treat psychological illness
7) clinical- evalution, diagnosis, treatment of illnesses
8) Counseling
9) educational- curriculum design
10) industrial- business
11) clinical neuropsychology- brain trauma
12) forensic- legal issues

26
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Medical doctor who specializes in treating mental disorders

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Psychiatrist

27
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7 things that unite psychology

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1) empiricism
2) theoretically diverse
3) sociohistorical context
4) determined by multiple causes
5) shaped by cultural heritage
6) influenced by heredity and environment
7) subjective

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Premise that knowledge is acquired through skepticism and critical thinking

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Empiricism

29
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System of interrelated ideas used to explain observations

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theory

30
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Purposeful, reasoned, goal directed thinking that involves solving problems in terms of scientific principle

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Critical Thinking

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