Unit 1 and Unit 2 Flashcards
1
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Introspection
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- means “looking inward”
- Teaches people to report elements of experiences (usually sensory)
- Immediate sensations, feelings, images - Unreliable because results vary from person to person, experience to experience, and it required smart, verbal people
2
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Freudian Psychology
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- Created by Sigmund Freud (Psychoanalysis)
- Emphasized the ways our unconscious thought processes and emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behavior
3
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Socrates & Plato
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- Mind is separable from the body (continues on after body dies)
- Knowledge is innate (born within us)
4
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Aristotle
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- Loved data and derived principles from logic
- Disagreed w/ Socrates and Plato: said knowledge isn’t preexisting and it grows from experience stored in our memories
5
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René Descartes
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- Agreed with Plato & Socrates that knowledge is innate and the soul exists separately from the body
- Wondered how the immaterial mind and material body communicate
- Scientist and philosopher
- Said the fluid in the brain’s cavities contained “animal spirits”
- Flowed from brain through what we now call nerves to muscles, provoking movement
- Also flowed through open pores in the brain (how memories form)
6
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Francis Bacon
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- Formed modern empiricism
- One of the founders of modern science (Influence lingers today)
- Fascinated with the human mind and its failings
- Stated that our beliefs are based off of when we see the belief fulfilled, but neglect its failures
7
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John Locke
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- British political philosopher
- Wrote a 1 page paper which led to “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” (hundreds of pages)
- Mind at birth= tabula rasa (blank slate) on which experience writes
- Helped form modern empiricism
8
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Early Schools of Psychology
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- Structuralism
- Functionalism
- Behaviorism
9
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Edward Bradford Titchener
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- Student of Wundt
- Introduced Structuralism at Cornell University
- Aimed to discover the structural elements of the mind
- Done w/ introspection
10
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Why do we use the Scientific method?
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- To avoid bias
- To understand more
- Constant method: makes things easier to replicate & compare
- gives you the ability to collect data
- Allows for building upon experiments
11
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Types of Research Methods
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- Case Study
- Correlational method
- Naturalistic observation
- Survey
- Experimentation
12
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Phineas Gage
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- Ex of a case study
- Spike shot through his skull but didn’t die (could still function)
- Before, he was a calm, agreeable person
- Afterwards: quick to anger, alcoholic, major personality changes
- 1st time psychologists realized brain controlled behavior (not sure that this point)
13
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Overconfidence
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- Being overly sure of an answer
- Humans tend to be more confident than correct
- Leads us to overestimate our intuition
14
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Perceiving Order of Random Events
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- Humans are prone to perceive patterns because of our eagerness to make sense of the world
- Everything is equally likely or unlikely to happen
- Leads us to overestimate our intuition
15
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Curiousity
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- A passion to explore and understand w/o misleading or being misled
- Psychologists use curious skepticism to approach the world of behavior
- Make modern science possible
