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Test 1: Introduction Flashcards

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Mind

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Private inner experience

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Psychology

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Scientific study of mind and behavior

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Behavior

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Observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals

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What does an fMRI do?

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Allows scientists to scan a brain and see which parts are active when a person does something.

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How does the mind usually allow us to function effectively in the world?

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The function of the mind is to help us do what we have to do in order to prosper, such as acquiring food, shelter, and mates.

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What are emotions function?

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Emotions function as signals that tell us when we are putting ourselves in harm’s way.

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Nativism

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Certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn

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Who argued in favor of Nativism?

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Plato

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Philosophical empiricism

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We are a tabula rasa and that all knowledge is acquired through experience.

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Who argued for philosophical empiricism?

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Aristotle

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René Descartes

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Body and Mind are fundamentally different things. Mind influences body through pineal gland.

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Thomas Hobbes

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The mind is what the brain does.

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Franz Joseph Gall

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Thought brains and mind were linked but by size rather than by glands. Came up with phrenology.

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Phrenology

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Specific mental abilities and characteristics, ranging from memory to the capacity for happiness, are localized in specific regions of the brain.

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Paul Broca

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Crucial insight that damage to a specific part of the brain impaired a specific mental function, demonstrating that the mind and the brain are closely linked.

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Physiology

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Study of biological processes, especially in the human body

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Stimulus

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Sensory input from the environment

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Reaction time

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The amount of time taken to respond to a specific stimulus

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Hermann Von Helmholtz

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Studied nerve impulses and reaction times, showed mental processes did not occur simultaneously.

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Opened the first lab ever to be exclusively devoted to psychological studies. Believed psychology should focus on analyzing consciousness. Also adapted structuralism.

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Consciousness

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A person’s subjective experience of the world and the mind.

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Structuralism

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The analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind

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Introspection

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The subjective observation of one’s own experience

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William James

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“Father of psychology”- believed that trying to isolate and analyze a particular moment of consciousness distorted the essential nature of consciousness. Said consciousness was more like a flowing stream than a bundle of separate elements. Functionalist.

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Functionalism

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The study of the purpose mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment.

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Natural selection

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The features of an organism that help it survive and reproduce are more likely than other features to be passed on to the subsequent generations.

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Jean-Martin Charcot

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Interviewed hysteria patients using hypnosis

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Hysteria

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A temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions, usually as a result of emotionally upsetting experiences.

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Sigmund Freud

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Defined the unconsciousness and developed the psychoanalytic theory and psychoanalysis

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Unconscious

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The part of the mind that operates outside of conscious awareness but influences conscious thoughts, feelings, and actions.

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Psychoanalytic theory

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An approach that emphasizes the importance of unconscious mental processes in shaping feelings, thoughts, and behaviors

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Psychoanalysis

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Bringing unconscious material into conscious awareness.

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Humanistic psychology

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an approach to understanding human nature that emphasizes the positive potential of human beings

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Challenges for Psychoanalysis?

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  • Sexual spin on psychology
  • Pessimistic view
  • Difficult to study
  • Freud did not do well with those who questioned his approach
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Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers

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Associated with humanistic psychology

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Humanistic psychology

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an approach to understanding human nature that emphasizes the positive potential of human beings

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John Watson, B.F. Skinner, and Ivan Pavlov

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associated with behaviorism

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Behaviorism

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the scientific study of objectively observable behavior

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Response

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an action or physiological change elicited by a stimulus

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Skinner

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  • animals learn by interacting with their environment- not passive like Pavlov’s dogs
  • “Skinner box”
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reinforcement

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the consequences of behavior determine whether it will be more or less likely to occur again.

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Illusions

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errors of perception memory, or judgment in which subjective experience differs from objective reality

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Gestalt psychology

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a psychological approach that emphasizes that we often perceive the whole rather than the sum of the parts.

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Sir Frederic Bartlett

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Our memory is influenced by our mind (our knowledge, hopes, aspirations, and desires) rather than a photographic representation of actual events.

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Cognitive psychology

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the scientific study of mental processes, including perception, thought, memory, and reasoning

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Karl Lashley

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  • Removed parts of rat brains
    • Observed deficits
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
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Cognitive Neuroscience

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Links between cognitive processes and brain activity

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John Garcia

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associated with evolutionary psych

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Evolutionary psychology

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explains mind and behavior in terms of the adaptive value of abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection

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Norman Triplett

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associated with social psych

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Social psychology

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the study of the causes and consequences of interpersonal behavior

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Culture

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the values, traditions, and beliefs that are shared by a particular group of people

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cultural psychology

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the study of how cultures reflect and shape the psychological processes of their members.

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Margaret Mead

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associated with cultural psych

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American Psychological Association (APA)

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Formed in 1892

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Who makes up most of the psych field?

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Clinical psychologists

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