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1
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Sigmund Freud was the champion of

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Psychodynamic Psychology

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An approach to understanding human behavior that focuses on the role of the unconscious.

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Psychodynamic psychology

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Anxiety, depression, and sexual dysfunction were the result of painful experiences from childhood.

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Psychodynamic Psychology

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Jung, Adler, Horney, Erikson

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Psychodynamic psychology

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It is impossible to study the mind, so psychologists should study behavior

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Behaviorism

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John B. Watson

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Behaviorism

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Ivan Pavlov

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Behaviorism

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Stimuli&responses

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Behaviorism

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B. F. Skinner

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Rewards system with behaviorism

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Field that studies mental processes, including perception, thinking, memory, judgement.

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Cognitive approach

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11
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Hermann Ebbinhaus

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Cognitive Approach

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Frederic Bartlett

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Cognitive Approach

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Our thinking has a powerful influence on behavior, the cognitive approach provided a distinct alternative to behaviorism

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Cognitive approach

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When we take into consideration how stimuli are evaluated and interpreted, we understand behavior more deeply.

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Cognitive behavior

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Neuroimaging

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The use of various techniques to provide pictures of the structure and function of the living brain.

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Study of how social situations and the cultures in which people find themselves influence thinking and behavior.

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Social-cultural Psychology

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Conformity

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Social-cultural psychology

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18
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What are the fundamental differences in social norms in western culture and East Asian culture?

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Western culture: individualism

East Asian: Collectivism

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School most familiar to the general public.

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Psychodynamic Psychology

20
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A major goal of psychology

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Predict Behavior

21
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Comes from Greek words meaning “life and explanation”

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Psychology

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The tendency to think that we could have predicted something that has already occurred that we probably would not have been able to predict.

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Hindsight bias

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Psychologists use this to collect, analyze, and interpret evidence.

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Scientific method

24
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Can’t be considered either true or false

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Values

25
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Willhelm Wundt’s school of psychology

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Structuralism

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British naturalist whose theory of natural selection influenced the functionalist school and the field of evolutionary psychology

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Darwin

27
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This school of psychology is most associated with William James

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Functionalism

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The study of mental processes, including perception, thinking, memory, and judgments is found in which of the following psychology schools

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Cognitive

29
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A famous French philosopher

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Descartes

30
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The Psychodynamic School of Psychology is most closely associated with the work of

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Sigmund Freud

31
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“To what extent are humans good information processors?” This is a question posed by which of the following debates.

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Accuracy versus inaccuracy

32
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Willhelm Wundt founded the first psychology research lab in

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Leipzig Germany

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A Greek philosopher who argued for the role of nurture in psychological development

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Aristotle

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Are genes or environment most influential in determining the behavior of individuals and in accounting for differences among people? This question is part of the____debate.

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Nature vs. Nurture

35
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Psychiatrist influenced by Freud

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Carl Jung

36
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Most famous behaviorist

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B. F. Skinner

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This school of psychology is based on the premise that it is not possible to objectively study the mind and therefore the study should be limited to behavior.

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Behaviorism

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This psychologist was influenced by Ivan Pavlov

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John Watson

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This school of psychology focuses on the role of unconscious thoughts, feelings, and memories.

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Psychodynamic

40
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He believed that many of the problems that his patients experienced were the result of the effects of painful childhood experiences.

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Sigmund Freud

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This school of psychology studies mental processes, including perception, thinking, memory and judgment.

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Cognitive

42
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This psychologist conditioned a baby to be afraid of white rats

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John Watson

43
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The ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving that are shared by group members and perceived by them as appropriate is an aspect of this school of psychology

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Social-cultural

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