Weel 1 Lecture 1-3

Question 1

The scientific attitude consists of 3 component parts which are

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Curiosity, Skepticism, Humility

Question 2

The first scientific psychology study was

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Wilhelm Wundt’s telegraph experiment in 1879

Question 3

Behavioural and Developmental Psychologists

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Question 4

Humanistic Psychologists

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Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

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Social Psychologists

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Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo

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Cognitive Psychologists

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Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck

Question 7

Early pioneers ->

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Study of mental life

Question 8

Behaviorists ->

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Scientific study of observable behavior

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Freudian ->

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*Emphasis on unconscious thought processes and emotional responses to childhood experiences

Question 10

Humanistic psychologists ->

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*Emphasized human growth potential

Question 11

Cognitive psychologists

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Scientific exploration of how information is perceived, processed, and remembered

Question 12

Cognitive neuroscientists

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Interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with mental activity

Question 13

Psychology was defined as the science of behavior and mental processes

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In 2014 by Myers and Dewall

Question 14

Forensic psychologists

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Apply psychology’s principles and methods in the criminal justice system ex. Billy Mulligan

Question 15

The four big ideas in Psychology

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1. Critical thinking is smart thinking
2. Behavior is a biopsychosocial event
3. We operate with a two-track mind
4. Psychology explores human strengths as well as challenges

Question 16

Positive Psychology is

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Studying human’s strengths and virtues to help humans

Question 17

Flaws in intuitive thinking

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1. Hindsight bias
2. Overconfidence
3. Perceiving patterns in random events

Question 18

Hindsight bias ->

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The tendency to believe you knew something would happen after knowing it happened

Question 19

Overconfidence ->

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People tend to think they know more than actually they do

Question 20

Perceiving patterns in random events ->

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