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36 Cards in this Set
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Behavioral |
Look at the obserbvable behaviors and what reation organisms get in response to specific behaviors that are explained in terms of conditioning |
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Psychoanalytic or Psychodynamic |
How behavior springs from the unconscious drives and conflicts; Looks for impulses or memories pushed into unconscious mind thru repression; Use dream analysis, word association and therapy techniques to understand human thought |
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Humanistic |
How our enviorment influences our growth potencial and the importance of having our needs for love and acceptance satisfied; Stress individual choice and free will; Bwe choose most of our behavior |
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Cognitive |
Examines human thoughts in terms of how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information/enviormental events |
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Evolutionary or Socio-biological |
How natural selection of traits promoted the survival of genes; stress that some psychological traits might be advantageous for survival and that these traits would be passed down from parents |
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Socio-Cultural |
How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures and how the culture influences the way we think and act |
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Behavioral Genetics (Disputed) |
-Study how heredity and enviorment inffluence our individual differences -Seek to quantify inherited and enviormental influences on our traits -Downfall: Studies Twins |
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Gesalt (Disputed) |
-Whole experienceare are more than the sum of its parts |
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Bio-psycho-social approach |
The analysis to give a complete picture of any behavior or mental process |
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Biological (Research) |
Explores the links between brain and mind |
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Development |
Studies changing abillities from womb to womb |
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Cognitive |
Study how we perceive, think, and solve problems |
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Personality |
Investigates our persistent traits |
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Social |
Explores how we view and affect one another |
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Clinical (Subfield's Applied) |
Studies, assesses, and treats people w/psychological disorders |
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Couseling |
Helps people cope w/academic, vocational, or marital challenges |
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Development |
Studies psychological development across life span |
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Educational |
Studies and helps individuals in school and educational setting/effective teaching/learning |
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Forensic |
Apply psych principles to legal issues |
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Health |
Concetrates on biological,psychological, and social factors involved in illness and health |
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Industrial/Organizational |
Studied and advises on behavior in the workplace |
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Neuropsychologists |
Explore relationships between brain and behavior |
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Psychometrics |
Measurment psychologist; focus on methods of aquiring and analyzing psychological |
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Rehabilitation |
Help client with mental impairment, developmental disabilities, disabilities from a stroke or accident |
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Social |
Focus on how a person's mental life and behavior is shaped by interactions w/people |
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Sports |
Help athletes refine their focus on goals, increase motivation, deal with anxiety |
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Clinical Psychologist vs. Psychiatrists |
-PhD & study, assess, and treat w/psychotherapy -MD & uses drugs/psychotherapy to treat patients |
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James Olds, Roger Sperry, David Hubel, Thorsten Weisel |
NeuroScience Key Thinkers |
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Charles Darwin |
Evolutionary |
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None |
Socio-Cultural Key Thinker |
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None |
Behavioral Genetic Key Thinker |
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Max Wertheimer |
Gesalt Key Thinker |
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Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky, Herbert Simon |
Cognitive Key Thinker |
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Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow |
Humanistic Key Thinkers |
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Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler |
Psychoanalytic Key Thinker |
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John Watson, BF Skinner, Ivan Pavlov, EL Thorndike |
Behavioral Key Thinker |
