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Unit 1- What Is Psychology Flashcards

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What are the 5 waves of psychology?

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Introspection, gestalt psychology, psychoanalytical, behaviorism, and eclecticism

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What is the second wave of psych?

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Gestalt Psychology: to understand the way someone is. Look at all their experiences and culture. Like pieces to a puzzle

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What is the 3rd wave of psychology? What psychologist is it attached to? How does theory explain behavior?

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Psychoanalytical
Signing Freud and Carl Jung
Look in the unconscious/ subconscious mind

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What is the 4th wave of psychology? What psychologists are attached to the theory? How does this wave explain behavior?

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Behaviorism and stimulus&response
John Watson and B.F. Skinner
Observable behaviors and what reaction organisms get in response to specific behaviors

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Research psychology

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Study origins, causes or results of certain behaviors

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Applied Psychology

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Solves those problems directly and applies that research

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Charles Darwin

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Survival of the fittest, natural selection

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Introspection, structuralism, wave 1

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Introspection

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Looking into your self and responding

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Structuralism

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Looking into your self and responding and adding an emotion to it

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William James

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Wave 1, Functionalism

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Functionalism

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Look, respond, add meaning

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Wertheimer

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Gestalt psychology, wave 2, the puzzle needs to know all the pieces

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Sigmund Freud

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Psychoanalytical approach, wave 3, defense mechanisms

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What does our personality consist of according to Freud?

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Id, ego, and superego

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Id

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Biological drives that demand instant gratification

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Ego

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Ourselves- rational decision making aspects of the personality. Mediates between the id and superego

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Superego

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Rules learned from parents and society-our conscience

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Repression

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Rejecting unacceptable thoughts, desires, and memories by banishing them into the unconsciousness

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Denial

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No acceptance of the truth

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Rationalization

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Attempt to prove their actions are justifiable and worthy of approval

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Displacement

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Diverting a behavior or thought away from its natural target toward a less threatening target

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Regression

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Returning to an earlier and immature comforting form of behavior

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Projection

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Taking your own undesirable characteristics and suggesting other people have them

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Reaction Formation

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Present themselves as the opposite of what they really are/ want to hide from the truth from themselves and others

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Sublimation

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Channeling frustrations into a goal

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Carl Jung

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Psychoanalysis, wave 3, collective unconscious

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Collective unconscious

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Collective sharing of experiences

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Watson

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Behavioral, wave 4, stimulus and response, punishment and reward

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Stimulus

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Environmental events

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Responses

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Physical reactions

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B.F. Skinner

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Behavioral, wave 4, reinforcement

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Reinforcement

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Constantly do, repetitiveness shaped to a punishment or reward, shapes behavior

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Maslow

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Humanistic, hierarchy of needs in order to self-actualize

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Rogers

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Humanistic, self-actualization through ideal self and unconditional positive regard, self-concept

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Psychology

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Scientific study of the mind (mental processes) and behavior

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Mind (mental processes)

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Everything the mind is capable of doing

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Theory

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An idea about the nature of something

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How many approaches are there to psychology?

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7: Biological, evolutionary, psychoanalysis, cognitive, humanistic, behaviorism, sociocultural

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Biological approach

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Focuses on genetic, hormonal, and neuro-chemical explanations of behavior

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Psychoanalysis

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Innate drives of sex and and aggression, social upbringing

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Cognitive

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Innate mental structures such as schemes, perception, and memory

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Humanism

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Maslow emphasized basic physical needs

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Behaviorism

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All behaviors are learned from the environment

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Evolutionary

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Natural selection and survival of the fittest

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Sociocultural

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Behaviors are learned through social interaction

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Theory of Natural Selection

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Used to explain patterns of behavior as adaptations for survival

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Structuralism

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The idea that the mind combines the subjective

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Eclectic

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Drawing from multiple perspectives and approaches

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Schemas

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Emphasize how people reason, remember, understand, solve problems, explain experiences, and form beliefs

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Self- Actualization (Maslow)

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Fulfillment of ones potential, accurate perception of reality

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Self-actualization (Rogers)

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Achievement of ones potential is the basic drive behind the development of personality

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Self- concept

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Image of who you really are

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Ideal self

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Image of who you’d like to be

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Unconditional positive regard

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Complete acceptance of another person and of who they are

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What does a good short answer need?

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A clear definition and example

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Example of a good short answer

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Lord Voldemort uses the stimulus and response approach when dealing with muggles. Stimuli is an environmental event and the physical reaction that occurs after is the response. Lord Voldemort hates his father (stimuli) so his response is to kill all the muggles he can.

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