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Week 1 Flashcards

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Localisation of function

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Different areas of the brain execute different functions

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Biological psychology or behavioural neuroscience

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Electrical and chemical processes that are underpin mental events

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Broca’s area

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Language production

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Wernickes area

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Language understanding

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Psychology is

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Scientific investigation of mental process and behaviour

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Titchner

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Structuralism

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Damage to the front section of the left hemisphere or brockas are will cause?

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Problems producing speech

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What is a paradigm

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Broad system of theoretical assumptions employed by a scientific community

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Two schools of thought that dominated psych in its early years

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Structuralism and functionalism

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Psychodynamic perspective sites

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Our thoughts and behaviours are influenced by conscious and unconscious forces that interact and may be opposing

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Psychodynamic/Psychoanalysis approach originator

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Sigmund Freud

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WIlliam James

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Functionalism

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Behaviourism

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Pavlov and skinner

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Wundt

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First Psych Lab

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Humanistic Perspective

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Maslow

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Humanisitic perspective assumes that

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Humans are innately good and will almost always chose adaptive and self actualising behaviours

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Behaviourist perspective

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Focuses on learning and the way environmental events control behaviour.

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Cognitive Perspective

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The way people perceive process and retrieve information

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Humanistic Perspective

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Uniqueness of the individual and their immediate experiences

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Evolutionary perspective

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Human tendencies evolved because they helped our ancestors to survive and reproduce.

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Carl rRogers

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Humanisitc

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Rene Descartes

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Cognitive

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Darwin

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Evolutionary

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Psychodynamic

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Freud

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Behaviourist

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Skinner

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Humans and other animals are like machines and the mind is like a black box. Behaviour is learned and selected by its environmental consequences

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Behaviourist

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The mind is like a computer enduring patterns of thought are like software

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Cognitive

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Life is like a bottle of milk the cream always rises to the top.. Emphasising that everyone times to be the best they can be

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Humanistic

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Consciousness is like the tip of an iceberg the mind is like a battleground of warring fractions

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Psychodynamic

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Life is a race for survival and reproduction

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Evolutionary

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Biospychology

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Investigates the physical basis of psychological phenomena such as thought emotion and stress

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Developmental psychology

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Studies the way thought, feeling and behaviour develop through the life span from infancy to death.

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Social Psychology

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Examines the interactions of individual psychology and group phenomena

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Clinical psychology

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focuses on the nature and treatment of psychological processes that lead to emotional distress

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Cognitive psychology

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Examines the nature of thought memory sensation perception and language

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Personality Psychology

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Peoples enduring ways of responding in different situations

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Organisation psychology

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Behaviour of people in organisations

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educational psychology

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Psychological processes in learning

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Health psychology

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psychological factors involved in health and disease

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Counselling psychology

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Provides diagnosis and assessment

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Sport Psychology

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Focuson on ways to enhance performance

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Forensic Psychlogy

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relevant to the prevention and treatment of criminal behaviour

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Positive psychology

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Examines the strengths and virtues that make individuals flourish and applies this knowledge

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Conservation psychology

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the reciprocal relationonships between humans and nature with a focus on changing attidues and behaviours to encourage conservation of the environment.

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