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29 Cards in this Set
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Did Socrates and Plato believe the mind and body were attached or separated?
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Separated
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Did Socrates believe knowledge was innate or acquired?
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Innate
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Who was Plato's student?
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Aristotle
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What was the name of Aristotle's school?
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Lyceum
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Did Aristotle believe the mind/soul and body were attached or separated?
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attached
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Did Aristotle believe knowledge was innate or acquired?
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Acquired
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Who hypothesized that events experienced under strong emotion are better remembered?
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Aristotle
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Who was Augustine?
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Wrote about how the condition of the body influences the mind and how the mind influences the body, (too much bile can make you irritable and vice versa)
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How did Descartes think memories were formed?
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Experiences opened pores in the brain, into which animal spirits flowed
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What was one of Francis Bacon's beliefs?
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Human understanding supposes a greater degree of order than one really finds
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What was Wilhelm Wundt's psychological experiment?
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Measured the lag time between people's hearing a ball hit a platform and the time it took them to press a key; (seeking to measure the "toms of the mind")
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What school is Titchner associated with?
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Structuralism, (introspection)
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Who is associated with the school of structuralism?
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Titchner
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What was John Roethke's famous quote?
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"Self-contemplation is a curse that makes an old confusion worse"
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What school is William James associated with?
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Pragmatism, (functionalism)
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What did William James think was the purpose of free will?
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Gives you reason to plan, take initiative, and discipline yourself
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What was the title of Margaret Floy Washburn's book?
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The Animal Mind
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What is the current definition of psychology?
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The science of behavior and mental processes
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Describe neuroscience psychology.
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How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences; (brain circuits that produce a physical state of being "red in the face")
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Describe evolutionary psychology.
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How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one's genes; (analyze how anger facilitates the survival of our ancestors' genes)
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Describe behavior genetics psychology.
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How much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences; (how heredity and experience influence our individual differences in temperment)
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Describe psychodynamic psychology.
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How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts; (outbursts as an outlet for unconscious hostility)
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Describe behavioral psychology.
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How we learn observable responses, (facial expression and body gestures that accompany anger)
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Describe cognitive psychology.
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How we encode, process, and store information; (interpretation of a situation affects our anger and how our anger affects our thinking)
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Describe socio-cultural psychology.
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How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures
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What are the 7 current perspectives in psychology?
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Neuroscience
Evolutionary Behavioral Genetics Psychodynamic Behavioral Cognitive Social-Cultural |
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What are the 5 different types of psychology careers?
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Biological
Developmental Cognitive Personality Social |
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What are the four steps of effective studying?
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Preview, read, think critically, and review
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What are four extra suggestions for effective studying?
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1. Distribute study time
2. Listen actively 3. Overlearn 4. Be a smart test-taker |
