Terms Flashcards
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Behaviorism?
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- Theory of learning based on the idea that behaviors are acquired through conditioning, conditioning occurs through interaction with the environment
- Environmental effects on observable behavior
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Structuralism?
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- mind is sum of its parts
- Wundt created its foundation, but Titchener expanded
- The doctrine that structure is more important than function
- Breaking down mental processes into basic elements/components building blocks of consciousness structure
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Functionalism?
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- William James
- Continuous series of thoughts
- mind and behavior are adaptive
- adaption to a person’s environment
- focused on how mental and behavioral processes function – how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish
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Gestalt Theory?
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- Max Wertheimer
- The whole is different from the sum of its parts
- Perception of objects is different to each person
- Think of triangle example
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Dualism?
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• It is the concept in which the body and mind are seen as separate things, distinct entities that interact with each other to make a person.
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Introspection?
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- Examination/analyze/report of one’s own conscious thoughts and feeling
- Observation of one’s mental state
- Systematic observation of one’s own conscious experience
- William Wundt
