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49 Cards in this Set
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Abraham Maslow |
Humanistic Psychologist; Self-Actualization |
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B.F. Skinner |
Behavioural Psychologist; Radical behaviourism |
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Structuralism |
Analysis of the mind through basic components |
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The scientific approach |
Minimizing biases and problems through scrutiny and public revision |
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Clinical Psychology |
Study and treatment of mental disorders |
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Biopsychology |
Biological underpinnings of behaviour |
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Developmental Psychology |
Psychology of development across the lifespan |
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Experimental Psychology |
Basic processes involving experiments |
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I/O Psychology |
Behaviour in the workplace |
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Personality Psychology |
Human personality and behaviour influences |
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Social Psychology |
Social behaviours |
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Science |
Systematic gathering and evaluation of empirical evidence |
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Everyday Observation as Casual |
Mental shortcuts (stereotyping), failure of consideration of alternate hypotheses, and confirmation biases |
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4 Goals of Psychology |
To describe, explain and understand, to predict, and to influence or control. |
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Basic Research |
Purely for the sake of knowledge, a theory |
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Applied Research |
Solving practical problems through basic research |
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Levels of Analysis |
Biological, psychological, and environmental |
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Mind-body dualism |
The mind is unbound by natural law, theorized by René Descartes |
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Monism |
One, brain and mind interact |
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Wilhelm Wundt |
First experimental psychology laboratory |
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Functionalism |
Functions of the consciousness |
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Psychodynamic Perspective |
Inner workings of the personality |
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Behavioural Perspective |
The external environment’s effects on actions |
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Sigmund Freud |
Psychodynamics; free association and description of the unconscious |
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Albert Bandvra |
Cognitive Behaviourist; how learning experiences affect reception to the environment |
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Humanistic Approach |
Free will, personal growth, and meaning in one’s life |
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Abraham Maslow |
Humanist; life is a force towards self-actualization |
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Cognitive Perspective |
How mental processes influence behaviour |
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Gestalt Psychology |
The mind organizes experiences into a whole |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
Brain activity during cognitive tasks |
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Sociocultural Psychology |
How culture and social environments influence behaviour |
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Sociocultural Psychology |
How culture and social environments influence behaviour |
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The three components of presence |
Physical, implied, and imagined |
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Cultural Psychology |
How culture is passed between members |
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Biological Perspective |
How the brain and physical body interacts with psychology |
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Donald O. Hebb |
Biological; how changes in neural connections affect processes |
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Karl Lashley |
Biological; Effect of severing nerves in rats and lesioning |
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Behaviour Genetics |
Some traits and behaviours are due to underlying genetic factors |
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Sociobiology |
Natural selection favours certain traits to be passed down |
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Gustav Fechner |
Sensations can be quantified |
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William James |
First psychology textbook |
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Mary Calkins |
First woman president of the APa |
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Carl Jung |
Collective unconsciousness, how the unconscious is transmitted from generation to generation |
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Carl Rogers |
Client centred care |
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Ivan Pavlov |
Classical Conditioning and associative learning |
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Jean Piaget |
Cognitive; Kids and adults think differently |
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Wilder Penfield |
Mapping of cortical function |
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Wolfgang Kohler |
Gestalt Tradition; organisms can problem solve on their own |
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Kurt Levin |
Behaviour acts upon context |
