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32 Cards in this Set
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What are two things that Aristotle believed?
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Empiricism: knowledge from experience, and that the mind is a blank slate
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Clinical Psychologists: what do they do? Experience? Where do they work?
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treat psychological problems, at least masters, clinics and private practise
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Counselling Pyschologist: do? experience? where?
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deal with adjustment problems (marriage, etc.), phD, counselling offices
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what is a Psychiatrist?
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Medical doctor that prescribes drugs for psychological issues
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List 3 examples of an Applied Psychologist (real life)
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-school psychologist, industrial, and human factors psych. (tele)
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What do Research Psychologists do?
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conducts experiments and collect data to further the science of psychology
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Who was Rene Descartes: What did he believe? What did he discover?
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dualism (seperate mind & body) and he believed in that the pineal gland in the mind controls body. He discovered reflexes.
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Who believe that the mind was innate or unborn; nativism?
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Kant believed in instincts, etc.
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Define Natural Selection. Who proposed this?
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successful individuals have heritable traits that make them better than others at overcoming obstacles and solving problems that are present in their environment. Charles Darwin.
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Who discovered first lab? When? What methods of research were used?
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William Wundt. 1879. Introspection.
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Define Structuralism. Who believed in this?
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The idea that immediate experience can be broken down into parts to be analyzed. Wundt and Titchener.
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William James believed in this idea of psychology and it was influenced by Darwin
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Functionalism: the idea of immediate experience/ thought should be concerned about the purpose & function of why it happens.
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Who was the first man to have a psych lab in Canada. When was this? What did he believe in structure or function?
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James Mark Baldwin. 1891-1892. Functionalist
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Who rejected the study of the mind in favour of the study of observable behavior, leading to the era of the behaviorists
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John B. Watson.
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What was B.F. skinner responsible for?
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Being a behaviorist, he discovered how behavior changes in response to reinforcement and nonreinforcement.
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Who was Sigmund Freud?
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1st clinical psychologist, MD, psychoanalysis. Talk therapy, controversial, unconscious urges/thoughts/desires.
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Who were the two men involved in the Humanistic era?
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Abraham Maslow, and Carl Rogers
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Who was Carl Jung?
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analytic psych. synchronicity, collective unconsciousness.
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Structuralism: Who and what is the focus?
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Wundt, Titchner: determine structure of immediate conscious experience using introspection
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Functionalism: Who and what is the focus?
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James, Dewey: determine function of immediate conscious experience through introspection, naturalistic observation, measure of individual differents.
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Behaviorism: who and what.
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Watson, Skinner. Rejected immediate conscious experience and mental events. Focused only on observable behavior.
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Psychoanalytic: who and what
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Freud. analyze UNconscious determinants of behavior. Child experience develops adult behavior
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Humanistic: who and what
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Rogers, Maslow. Free will, unique self, reaction against freud.
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Who was Donald Hebb?
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Canadian. father of neuropsychology. neurons that fire/wire. Brainwasher.
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Who was the canadian neurosurgeon that probed at brains while they were awake?
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Wilder Penfield.
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Who worked on an amensia patient named H.M.?
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Brenda Miller, canadian.
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Who did much work on the pyschology of pain?
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Ronald Melzack. canadian.
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What was Albert Bandura known for?
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child's behavior influenced by observating and rewards/ punishment.
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What canadian worked on childrens attachment to their parents?
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Mary Ainsworth
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First women president of the CPA?
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Mary Wright
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What was the cognitive revolution?
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Shift from behaviorism, focusing on consciousness and internal mental processes. Influenced by development of computer.
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Who served as both president of CPA and APA
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Donald Hebb.
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