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Unit 1 Terms Flashcards

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Behavioral Approach

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Observable Events; External Environment

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Cognitive Approach

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Thought processes (ow people (and other animals) process, store, and retrieve information and how this information is used to reason and solve problems)

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Humanistic Approach

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Self-Potential; Internal Environment (How we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self-fulfillment)

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Psycho dynamic Approach

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how our unconscious mind influences behavior, personality and feelings

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Biological Approach

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How the brain, nervous system, genetics, etc. are associated with behavior

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Psychological Perspectives

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All explain behavior; All are Complentary

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Provider Career

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Individual Treatment

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Child Psychologist

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Mental, Social, Emotion, Development (Provider)

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Counseling Psychologist

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Someone to talk to; General Issues; day to day coping (Provider)

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Clinical Psychologist

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Specific Disorders (Provider)

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School Psychologist

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Deal directly with students; Achievement of educational goal (Provider)

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Development Psychologist

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Development over the course of your life (Research)

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Educational Psychologist

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Effective teaching and learning practice (Research)

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Industrial/ Organizational Psychologist

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Improving the workplace; increasing morale and productivity (Research)

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Cognitive Psychologist

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Perception, thinking and memory (Research)

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Social Psychologist

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Affect of social interactions (Research)

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Evolutionary Psychologist

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How we mentally adapt (Research)

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Forensic Psychologist

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Psychology in the legal world

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Sports Psychologist

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Mental state of Athletes

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Aristotle

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Knowledge develops through experience

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Plato & Socrates

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Psychology is not Empirical, Innate Knowledge

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Rene Descartes

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Dualism: Separates Physical & Mental natures (Interactions create experiences)

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Sir Francis Bacon

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Developed Inductive Method: collect, compare, and exclude qualities of data

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John Locke

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Empiricism: Knowledge through observation

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Charles Darwin

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Natural Selection

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Wilhelm Wundt

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First Pysch Lab - Univ. of Leipzig, Germany

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G. Stanley Hall

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First Amer. Lab- John Hopkins Univ.

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Edward Titchener

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Student of Wundt; Structuralism( How do elements of the mind form consciousness

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Introspection

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Structuralism Method: Observation & Self-Reporting

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Washburn

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1st Woman PhD (Mental events are as significant as behavioral events) Mental events should be studied

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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1stFemale President of APA

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APA

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American Psychologist Association

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Empiricism

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View that knowledge originates from experience and observation

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Psychiatry

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A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders

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Structuralism

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An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind

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Functionalism

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A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function- how they enable us to adapt, survive and flourish

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Human Factors Psychology

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The study of how people and machines interact and the design of safe and easily used machines and environments

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Basic Research

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Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base

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Psychometrics

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The scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes and traits

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