Test 1 Flashcards

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Free will vs deter ism

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Do we have free choice or things determins by external behavior
Free/meant to be

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Psychology

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Study of human behavior and experience

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Mind vs body

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Is mind independent if the body or is it produced by the brain (part of body)
Soul/brain

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Nature vs nurture

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What accounts most for individual differences: heredity or environment

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Biopsychosocial model

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Physical/ mental wellness is a function of three interconnected factors 1) biological factors

2) social factors
3) psychological factors
- copying styles

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Wilhelm Wundt 1832-1929

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Founded first psy lab in 1879 at the U of Leipzig

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Edward titchener 1867-1927

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English, in 1890 went to study under wundt, came to US in 1892 (cornell university) , structuralist,

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Structuralism

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Understanding mental by breaking the mind into parts, ex given an apple look at sixpence, color, shape, introspection,

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William James

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1st American born psychologist, brother of novelist Henry James, taught 1st psy coursed at Harvard, functionalist

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Functionalist

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Understand mind and how it produces useful behavior, focus on adaptive mental functions, fear useful

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G Stanley hall - functionalist

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Influential functionalist, American eared pH d under James at Harvard , later studied under Wundt, established John Hopkins university

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Sigmunf freud

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Past experience effect, unconscious thought , feelings, ect influence present behavior, behaviorist

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John b Watson

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PH d Chicago, father of behaviorism

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Behaviorism

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Study what is observable and measurable, introduces stimulus response until cognitive psy

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Edward tool an

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Rat experiments with mazes

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Ivan Pavlov

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Russian Watson, first identified learning principle of classical conditioning– smell reminds you, won Nobel, dog and food behavior

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Bf skinner

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Most influential and prominent radical behaviorism

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Carl Rogers

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Humanistic psy, Therapy techniques used today

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Scientific methods

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1) hypothesis
2) method- what approach
3) results
4) interpretation- was hypo supported
5) disseminate findings p- share with others

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Replication

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Research that obtain that can provide the same methodology

EX) Mozart effect with pregnant people but this is wrong way

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Falsification

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Ability to disprove a theory because it makes relationship amongst variables

Ex) 300 makes kids violent, clowns red nose

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Independent variable

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Manipulates/ controls the experiment

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Dependent variable

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Measures to detect the change in he participant

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Peripheral

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Everything other than the brain/ spinal cord two divisions

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Somatic- peripheral

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Skeletal muscle (voluntary)

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Autonomic (peripheral)

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Internal organs (involuntary)

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Sympathetic (automatic)

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Fight or flight, expending energy

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Parasympathetic (autonomic)

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Energy conservation, sleeping

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Central

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Brain and spinal cord

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Frontal lobe

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Motor behavior, emotion, attention, speech

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Parietal lobe

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Somatosensory cortex, hearing

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Temporal lobe

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Verbal, visual , higher order

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Occipital lobe

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Basic visual processing