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What is Psychology?

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the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes

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What is the study of psychological phenomenal tied to?

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Ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy

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Who opened the first Psychological Laboratory?

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Wilhelm Wundt (1879)

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Who came up with Voluntararism?

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Wilhelm Wundt

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What is Voluntarism?

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the idea that our mental mind is a passive reflection of the world around us.

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Who came us with pragmatism?

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William James (1842-1910)

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What therapist approach did Sigmund Freud come up with?

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Psychoanalysis

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what is psychoanalysis?

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where the client would share their dreams, which the therapist would analyze to reveal the unconscious ( the ‘id’)

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What is the ‘id’, ‘ego’, ‘superego’?

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id = is your unconscious, yours desires, the ‘devil’
ego = is you
superego= your moral decisions, your ‘angel’

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What do gestalt psychologists study?

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human tendencies, by putting together the ‘parts’ or individual sensations, to create a ‘whole’ or perception that went beyond the sum of the parts

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what is the point of Psychology?

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to answer the ‘why’ questions
to describe,explain, predict, and/or control behaviour and mental purposes.

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what are the levels psychologists study?

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the intra- individual, inter-individual, inter-group, and societal

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what is the intra-individual level?

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the level of the brain

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what is the inter- individual level?

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level of the person

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what is the inter-group level?

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level of the group

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what is the societal level?

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level of culture

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What is Behaviour Psychology?

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the idea that we should focus on human behaviour through experiments and observations - Watson
we learn how to behave (nurture), our mind is a balck box where imput is put in

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who was the first behaviourist psychologist?

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Locke (1690)

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what did locke(1690) find?

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2 main ideas can become associated if they occur close together in time

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who came up with mental habits?

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Hume (1711-1776)

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what did Hume(1711-1776) find?

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we create associations
we form mental habits of connecting ideas. x makes us think of z or x makes us think of y due to close proximity

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who came up with introspection?

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Wilhelm Wundt (1879)

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what is classical introspection?

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Wundt trained psychologists to make conscious observations of their experience, verbal accounts of their sensations in term modes, quality, intensity, duration and feelings

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Who came up with ‘the work of the Digestive Glands’?

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Pavlov (1897)

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who came up with classical conditioning and what is it?
Pavlov (1897) - association between a conditioned stimulus and an involuntary response.
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Who conducted the bell experiment?
Pavlov
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Who conducted the puzzle box study with cats?
Thorndike (1898)
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what is the 'law of effect' theory and who came up with it?
Thorndike(1898) - behaviour that produces positive results will be repeated and vice versa with negative
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who demonsted operant conditioning first?
Thorndike (1898)
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what is operant conditioning?
a voluntary behaviour and a consequence
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who defined behaviourism?
Watson (1913)
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who did the 'little abert' experiment?
Watson & Raynor (1920)
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What did Skinner find?
inspired by pavlov, developed operant conditioning, argued reinforcement is how language is developed
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What did Skinner find?
inspired by pavlov, developed operant conditioning, argued reinforcement is how language is developed
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What did Hull (1940s) do?
trued to simplify all the behaviourist theories and came up with the drive reductive theory - when humans experience a psychological or psychological need, they feel a drive to satisfy that need
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what is the drive reductive theory and who came up with it?
Hull(1940s) drive reductive theory - when humans experience a psychological or psychological need, they feel a drive to satisfy that need
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What did Chomsky (1959) do?
criticised Skinners theory of language. Came up with 'Langauge acquisition device'
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what is the 'language acquisition device' and who came up with it?
Chomsky (1959) - humans must have a different system from animals, which is how we are allowed to learn language
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Is bandura a behaviourist psychologist?
No - a social learning theory
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what did Badura (1960) find from the 'BoBo doll experiment?
children learned via observation not reinforcement
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What are Nicomachean Ethics?
Aristotle - we seek to 'live well' every pursuit aims at some good, each good is an end serving a higher end.
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"Aristotle - we seek to 'live well' every pursuit aims at some good, each good is an end serving a higher end. " what type of ethics is this?
Nicomachean ethics
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what are normative ethics?
what it means to behave the right way(within norms)
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what type of ethics is the theory of consequentialism and Deontology apart of?
Normative ethics
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what is Consequentialism?
the moral worth of an action depends on its consequence
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"The moral worth depends on an actions consequence." What Normative ethically theory is this?
Consequentialism
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what is Deontology?
the morality of an action does not change depending on circumstances
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"The morality of an action does not change depending on circumstances." What normative ethical theory would this be?
Deontology
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what are the four principles of the BPS code of ethics?
Respect, competence, responsibility, integrity
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Who came up with cognitive maps?
Edward Tolman (1886-1959) - the rats in the maze could find their way out because they formed mental representations of their environment
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what is the difference between behaviourist theory and cognitive (Tolmans) theory?
behaviourist behaviour= stimulus - response Tolman behaviour = stimulus - organism - response
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who came up with time lapse?
Donald Hebb (1904- 1985)
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are the mechanisms we use to make up an image, and when we really see an image the same?
a number of cases that have reported that difficulties in visual imagery parallel difficulties in visual perception
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"A number of cases that have reported that difficulties in visual imagery parallel difficulties in visual perception" name some examples.
Revive, Warach & Farah (1985) Beauvois & Saillant (1985) FMRI studies
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what is imagining?
forming a mental image of concept of something
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what is perceiving?
recognising and interpreting sensory stimuli
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What did Kohler (1927) sultan experiment find?
initial attempt - failure (impusse) - success
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what is functional fixedness?
tendency to use object and concepts in the problem environment in only their customary and usual way
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what are mental (or negative) set?
tendency to solve problems in a certain way, using a particular approach. e.g. the vacuum study
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who came up with the water jug experiment?
Luchins (1942)
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what is cognition?
inner processes and mental activities
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what is cognitive development?
concerned with the changes in human mental activities that happen over time as we age (Alcorn,M,B. & Washburn, A. 2024)
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what are the key processes in early years?
synapses - the transition point between neurons synaptic pruning - Afterwards, they start falling away during childhood. Some of the connections strengthen, and some weaken myelination - development of fatty deposits that form around neurons to allow electrical impulses to more effectively move
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What is the synapses process?
synapses - the transition point between neurons
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what is the synaptic pruning process?
synaptic pruning - Afterwards, they start falling away during childhood. Some of the connections strengthen, and some weaken
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what is the myelination process?
myelination - development of fatty deposits that form around neurons to allow electrical impulses to more effectively move
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what are the key studies of cognitive development?
Piagets stages of development and Vygotskys social-cognitive development theory
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who came up witht hw process of coming to know and what is it?
Paiget- children are coherent in theri own framework of knowing. we all have a schemata which is updated through assimilation, accommodation, equilibrium
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what are the stages of cognitive development?
Sensormotor (0-2), Preoperational (2-7), Concrete operational (7-11),Formal operational (11+)
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what is a schemata?
the mental frameworks for understanding and thinking about the world
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what happens in the assimilation process?
new complimentary info/experience is added into existing schema
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what happens in the accommodation process?
contradictory info mena schemat must be significantly altered
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what is the equilibrium process?
a balanced mental frmaeowork due to assimilation and accommodation

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