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Unit 1 Flashcards

1
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Who theorized knowledge question “you’re born w knowledge”

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Aristotle

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2
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Three theorists

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Aristotle, John lock, decardes

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3
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What did John lock believe

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Tabula Rosa, born with a blank slate

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4
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What did decardes believe

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Cognito ergo sum

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5
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What is the cognito ergo sum

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Knowledge for certainty: senses fail us. We exist because we are consciously thinking

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6
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Who discovered structuralism

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Edward T and Wilhem W

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7
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Who discovered first psych Lab

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Edward and Wilhelmina

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8
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Who believed in introspection

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Edward and Wilhem

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9
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What is introspection

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Having individuals answer questions while having experiment

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10
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Who brought functionalism to America

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William James

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11
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What is functionalism

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Function of a system

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12
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Who wrote a book revolutionizing psychology

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Sigmund freud

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13
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What and who created the psychodynamic theory

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Personality develops through childhood experience (unconscious)
Sigmund Freud

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14
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Who developed first school known as behaviorism

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John B Watson

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15
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Behaviorsm

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Looks at behavior, stemmed off of what we have learned through our lives

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16
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Who invented humanist theory

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Carl Rodgers

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17
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What did Carl Rodgers say about his theory

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We want to be self actualulized

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18
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Psychological perspectives

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Study underneath

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19
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Biological

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Biopsychology of neuroscience: looks at brain interacting with body

20
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Behavioral

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Learning from others, learned traits

21
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Psychoanalytic

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Personality stems from unconscious drives in childhood

22
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Personality and behavior self worth potential

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Humanistic

23
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Passing down traits for survival

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Natural selection

24
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Natural section perspective

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Evolutionary

25
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How we think and how it effects our actions

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Cognitive

26
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How society and culture shape our behaviors

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Sociocultural

27
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Study of physical, cognitive, and social change or growth in humans through our life span.

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Developmental psychology

28
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Study of psychological processes to affect and enhance teaching and education

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Educational psychology

29
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How people influence a group

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Social psychology

30
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Application of psychological concepts and methods to affect human behavior in the workforce

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Industrial organizational psych

31
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Study of how people and machines interact: create safest machines

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Human factors psych

32
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Counseling psychologists vs clinical

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Counseling : deal w everyday issues

Clinical: deal with abnormal disorders

33
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Basic vs applied research

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Basic: build psych knowledge based
Applied: takes basic research, tries to tackle a problem w it

34
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After body dies, knowledge is born within us. Mind is separable from body

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Plato and Socrates

35
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Superstition

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Francis Bacon

36
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Empiricism

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Knowledge originates in experience. Science should rely on observation and experimentation

37
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Who is a Functionalist scientist

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William James

38
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Functionalist =

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Consciousness

39
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Mary Calkins

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First woman president or APA

40
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An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore Elements of mind

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Structuralism

41
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First woman to receive a PhD, animal behavior

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Margaret Washburn

42
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Science of behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

43
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  1. Science should be an objective that studies behavior without mental processes,
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Behaviorism

44
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Controversy over relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors
Contributions of bio and experience

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Nature nuture issue

45
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Levels of analysis

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Differing complementary views from biological to psychology to social cultural

46
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A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who often provide medical treatments

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Psychiatry

47
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For behaviorists, psychological science is rooted in

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Introspection

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