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22 Cards in this Set
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Psychology is the scientific study of what?
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Behaviour and mind
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Which can be studied by a scientific observer, behavior or mind?
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Behavior
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What is the difference between a clinical and a counselling psychologist?
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Clinical specialize in treatment of psychological problems ie schizo
Counselling deals with milder problems such as family/personal adjustment issues |
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What can psychiatrists do that psychologists and counsellors cant?
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Perscribe drugs
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What do applied psychologists do?
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Apply principles of psychology to practical, everyday problems of world
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What is empiricism and who coined the term?
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Idea that knowledge comes directly from experience, coined by Aristotle, he believed babies were born with a "blank mind"
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Psychology finds a middle ground between what two areas of study?
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Psychology and Physiology
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Rene Descartes argued that what two entities are entirely separate?
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The body and the mind
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Contrasted with empiricism, this idea says that certain knowledge and ideas are innate and needn't be learned
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Nativism
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Tendencies in natural selection that enable one to survive and reproduce are:
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Adaptive
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What factors do nature vs nature refer to?
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Nature=innate factors
Nurture=Experience |
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First psych lab set up by whom?
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Wilhelm Wundt
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Breaking the mind down into basic constituent parts like a biologist is an early school of psych thought called what?
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Structuralism
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Functionalists believed that rather than the analysis of the structure of the mind, one needed to what about the mind?
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The function and purpose
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Functionalism and structuralism aimed to understand immediate ________ _________
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Conscious experience
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The school of psych looking to study directly observable behavior rather than immediate conscious experience?
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Behaviourism
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The analysis of the conscious mind to discover underlying unconscious influences is called what and was coined by who?
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Psychoanalysis, Freud
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Approach to personality that tells that humans have the capacity for self-awareness, choice, responsiblity and growth, and have ultimate control over their own lives
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Humanistic psychology
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The approach which states that one shouldn't focus solely on one theoretical perspective (esp in terms of mind and behavior)
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Eclectic approach
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The shift away from strict behaviourism was called what?
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Cognitive Revolution
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The effect that natural selection has had on the human mind and behavior is called what?
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Evolutionary psychology
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The shared values, customs and beliefs that are characteristic of a community
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culture
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