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Unit 1: History and Approaches Flashcards

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Functionalism

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  • big picture

- behavior impacts our ability (ex. smiling improves communication)

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Structuralism

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  • breakdown thoughts and behaviors

- ex. Why + Hows

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Humanistic Psychology

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  • desire to be good
  • goals
  • Maslows Hierchy needs
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Psychology

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The scientific study of humans minds and their functions that effect behavior

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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  • attempt to get a degree

- 1st female president of the APA

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Biopsychosocial Approach

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Outcomes come from all social, biological, and psychological factors

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Biological Pysch

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  • genetics/DNA/ Neurotransmitters

- psychiatrists

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Behavioral Psych

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  • nature
  • rewards and punishments
  • learning association
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Psychodynamic Psych

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  • unconcious urges
  • PTSD
  • early childhood
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SocioCultural Psych

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  • culture
  • social norms
  • religious beliefs
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Development Pysch

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Study of humans as they age

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Social Psych

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Study of how we think about, influence and relate to each other

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Behavioral Genetics

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Study of power or genetics and its relative power and environmental influences

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Empiricism

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The view that knowledge originates in experience, and that science should rely on observation and experimentation

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Experimental Pysch

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Study of behavior and thinking using experiments

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Cognitive Neuroscience

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Study of the brain using cognition (perception, thinking etc)

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Psychometrics

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Scientific study of measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits

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Educational Psych

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Determine effective ways of teaching

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Counseling Pysch

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Helps people recognize their strengths and resources to deal with issues

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Phrenology

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Study of the bumps on the head

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Clinical Psych

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Test for and treat mental illnesses

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Cognitive Psych

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  • reason and logic

- changing beliefs

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Evolutionary Psych

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  • instinct
  • natural selection

-cave men

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Basic Research

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  • collects Data
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Applied Research

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Use the research in treatments

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Industrial- Organizational Psych

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Uses principles in the business world

THEORY Z

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Human Factors Psychology

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Studies human behavior and capabilities to design the best products etc

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Dualism

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Ideal that the human mind and body interact with one eachother

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Levels of Analysis

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3 LOAs

  • biological
  • behavioral
  • sociocultural
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Personality Psychology

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Studies personality and it’s variation among individuals

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Franz Joseph Gall

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-phrenology

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Willhelm Wundt

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-1st Psych Lab

FATHER OF PSYCHOLOGY

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G. Stanley Hall

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  • 1st lab to the US

- APA

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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1st women to officially get phD in psych

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Sigmund Freud

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  • personalities driven by conscious minds
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John Watson

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Classical Conditioning

- behaviorism

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BF Skinner

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Operant Conditioning

Behaviorism

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Charles Darwin

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Evolution

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Ivan Pavlov

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Conditioning reflex

Ex and dog and ball

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Jean Piaget

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Cognitive

Childhood development

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Dorothea Dix

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Created first mental asylums

AP US

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William James

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First to offer a Pysch course in the US

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Carl Rodgers

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Humanistic Psych

Personality development

Abused children

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John Watson

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Founder of behaviorism

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John Locke

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Mind is a blank slate at birth

Nuture

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Rene Descartes

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Concept of Dualism

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