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Science of psych Flashcards

1
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Define psychology

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Scientific study of mental processes.

Feelings, memory cognition.

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Limits of biology

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How developed your brain is, neurological pathway developed

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3
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Boundaries of culture

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What you have been exposed to.

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Early history of psychology

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Developed from philosophy

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5
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Who moved psychology away from philosophy

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Wundt

Turned to science

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Structuralism definition

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Looking at and examining your conscience thoughts

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Define introspect

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Becoming aware of your own thoughts and vocalising them

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Behaviourist

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Environment affect behaviour - no need to look at feelings

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Psychodynamic

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Behaviour from unconscious thoughts. Lack empirical evidence

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Humanist

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Optimistic view. People are motivated to reach their potential

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Cognitive

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The way we perceive, process and retrieve information.

Looking at the brain like a computer. Most popular in current psychology

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Evolutionary

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Behaviour shaped by need and ability to survive. Began in functionalism

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Psychodynamic method

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Case studies

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Behaviourist method

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Experimentation- belief that introspection is not scientific as no one can objectively access the thoughts of another person

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Humanist method

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Person centred therapy

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Cognitive method

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Experiments- mostly looking at memory and decision making

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Evolutionary method

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Deduction

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Freud perspective

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Psychodynamic

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Watson and skinner perspective

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Behaviourist

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Piaget or descartes perspective

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Cognitive

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Charles Darwin perspective

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Evolutionary

22
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What is free will vs determinism??

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Question of whether we chose our actions or if our behaviour is controlled by things outside our control

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What is the mind-body problem??

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Questioning how mental and physical events interact

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What are the 2 early schools of thought?

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Structuralism and functionalism

25
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What and who is structuralism?

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Titchener-

Introspection or looking at your conscientious thoughts

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Who and what is functionism

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William James-
Explains processes (memory, thinking and feeling) through the function they serve. He wanted to explain the thoughts and actions not just describe them.
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What is cross cultural psychology?

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Testing psychological hypothesis across different cultures

28
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Bio psychology or behavioural neuroscience is….

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Physical basis of psychology such as memory emotion and stress

29
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Explain the lesion experiment by Agustin-Pavon

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Created lesions in the brains of animals. When the lesion altered the emotional display of an animal than it is theorised that that region of the brain is connected to that emotion.

30
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What is localisation of function?

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How much do different parts of the brain affect function??

31
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Which areas of the brain are associated with language?

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Broca’s area- left frontal hemisphere and produces speech

Wernicke’s area - begins left front hemisphere and can not comprehend or produce comprehensible language.

32
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Contemporary belief of localised function

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Brain is more complicated than we once thought. Specific processes are not found confined to one section of the brain

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What is rationalism vs emphiricism?

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Where does knowledge come from? Observation and experience or logic and reasoning. Eg how do children understand the feelings of others?

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What is reason vs emotion?

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Knowledge vs feelings

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What is Continuity vs discontinuity with other animals

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How similar are humans to other animals??

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What is individualism vs relationality?

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Are humans self integrated or focused on helping others?

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Behaviourist vs psychodynamic

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Where psychodynamic theorists would look at internal mental events, behaviourists look at experience

38
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Cartesian duality

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Spheres of mind and body working together

39
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What is asphasia?

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Language disorders

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