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12 Cards in this Set
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What is Psychology
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The Science of behavior and mental processes
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What is Science
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Approach to knowledge based on systematic observation
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What is Behavior
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Directly observable and measurable actions
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What is Mental Processes
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Private psychological activities that include thinking, perceiving and feeling
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What is Theories
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Tentative explanations of facts and relationships in science
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What is introspection
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The process of looking inward at ones own consciousness
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What is Structuralism
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The nineteenth-century of psychology that sought to determine the structure of the mine through controlled introspection [ wundt, titchener]
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The Goals of Psychology
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Describe,
Predict understand and influence behavior and mental processes |
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Early Psychologist who studied the nature of conscioud experences incuded
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Wilhelm Wundt (Structuralism)
Edward Titchener (Structuralism) J.Henry Alston (Structuralism) Max Wertheimer (Gestalt Pshychology) |
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Founds of pshychology who focsed on the useful functions of conscious mental prosesses (Functionalism)
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William James
Hermann Ebbinghaus Mary Whiton Calkins |
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Early psychologies who focused on obervable behavior and the importance of learning (behaviorism)
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Ivan Paulov
JOhn B. Watson Margaret Floy Washburn |
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Pioneers of psychology who examined the "unconscious mind" where
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Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis)
Carl Rogers (Humanistic Psychology) |
