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Psychology
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The scientific study of the behavior of humans and other animals.
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5 major reasons why psychology includes the study of animal behavior in addition to human behavior.
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-Need to find a simpler model.
-Because research of animals can provide greater control of human experiments. -Ethical Considerations. -Animals are readily available for experimentation. -To learn more about animal behavior. |
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Dualism
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The belief that the physical body was mechanical and obeyed known laws of physics.
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Determinism
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Assumes that all physical events (including behavior and mental processes) are caused or determined by other physical events.
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Empiricism
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The idea that knowledge is best acquired through observation.
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Scientific Method
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Involves careful observation of events in the world, the formation of predictions based on these observations, and then the testing of these predictions by further systematic observations.
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Structuralism
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Attempted to develop a kind of mental chemistry by breaking experience down into its basic elements - or structures - in the same way that a substance such as water could be broken down into molecules of hydrogen and oxygen.
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Functionalism
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Emphasis on the functional, practical nature of the mind.
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Catharsis
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A method of suring symptoms that effect behavior by hypnotizing the patient and talking about happenings from that person's life.
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Behaviorism
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Opposes the use of introspection (observation of one's own mental and emotional state); An observation of the relationship between environmental events(stimuli) and an organism's response to them.
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Gestalt Psychology
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Approach to psychology that argues that the whole of an experiment is different from the sums of its parts. It is an active force in current investigations of perceptual processes and learning as well as thearpy, where it emphasizes that whole person.
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