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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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Psychology
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Added a new dimension to understand human behavior
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Freud
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Emphasized the unconscious,hidden motives, and desires
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Psychodynamic psych.
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Established the first formal lab for psychology research (in Germany)
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Wilhelm Wundt
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Psychology that stresses the basic units of experience and the combination in which they occur
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Structuralism
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First American born psychologist (wrote Principles of psychology)
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William James
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Concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities to function in its environment
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Functionalist theory
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Similar to Watson but added reinforcement
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B.F. Skinner
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Father of behaviorism, inspired by the Pavlov and his dogs
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Watson
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Studies only observable and measurable behavior
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Behaviorism
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Anything that follows a response and makes that response occur more often
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Reinforcement
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A relatively small group used for studying the general population
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Sample
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Sample that must represent the population being studied
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Representative Sample
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Each individual has an equal chance of being represented
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Random Sample
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Would not represent the general population of group being studied
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Biased Sample
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