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What we know about human behavior: enduring issues
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Nature - Nurture
Person - Situation Free Will Vs. Determinism Diversity - Universality Mind - Body Connection Internal Processes Vs. Observable Behavior Conscious Vs. Unconscious Determinants |
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Wilhelm, Wundt
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Believed the mind was mad up of:
Thought, experiences, emotion & basic elements. |
Ex: Student explained the "Sensation Stimulated" by the Rock when holding it.
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Mary W. Calkins
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Was denied a P.h.D. Degree by Harvord University because she was women.
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She became the first femal President of "The American Psychological Society".
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Williams James
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Focused on how the mind allows people to function in the real world
Ex: Work, play, and adapt to surroundings. |
Ex: How people work, play, and adapt to their surrundings.
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Sigmud Freud
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He was a M.D. in neurologist, speciialize in nervous system disorders.
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Believed that repressed urges created nervous disorders in patients.
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John B. Watson
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Was a Psychologist in the early 1900's.
Wanted to bring Psychology back by focusing on scientific inquiry and observable behavior,ignoring the conciouness issues. |
Proved that phobias are learned through process conditioning.
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Mary Cover-Jones
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Persue a graduated degree in Psychology, Completed her Maste Degree in 1920
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One of the early Pioneer of behavior therapy
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B.F. Skinner
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Developed a theory: how voluntary behavior is learned "Operant Conditioning"
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Ex: Child that cries is rewarde by getting his mother attention will cry again in the future.
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Maslow
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That studying animals & people with nevous disorders wouldn't lead to understanding self-actualization.
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Emphasized "The human potienial, the ability of each person to become the best person he/she could be.
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Functionalism / Structuralism
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Functionalism: How the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, play.
Stucturalism: Study of structure or basic elements of the mind. |
Scientific study of
consiousness itself was not yet possible. Every experience could be broken down to individual emotions & sensations. |
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Psychodynamic theories
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if you were a Psychologist in the mid 1900's, you were either a "Psychoanalyst of a behaviorist.
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"Third force" in psychology a reaction to both psychodynamic theory and behaviorism.
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Sociocultural Perspective
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Combines of two study's Social/Cultural Psycholgy
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Study of Groups/Cultural Norms.
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Congnitive Psychology
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How people think,
remember, store & use of information |
Neuroscientists uses MRI for imaging the brain on how it works
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Behaviorism Perspectives
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A theory how volunteer behavior is learned (Operant Conditioning)
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Child cries, mother gives rewards by giving attention, will cry in the future.
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Neuroscience
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Branch of life sciences
Ex: |
Deals w/ structure, functioning of brain, neurons, nerves & tissue.
forms nervous system |
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Biopsychological Perpectives
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Human & animal behavior, seen as results of events in the body.
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Hormons, heridity & brain chemical
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Humanistic Perspective
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Often called "third force"
Ex: Siimulus goes in, response come out, middle is of no intrest. |
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Scientific Method--Correlational Method (Positive Vs. Negative Correlation
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measurea the relationship between two or variables
Ex:Driving/Cellphone |
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Four research design
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Independent, dependent, experimental, control,
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Experimental Vs. Control Group
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Experimental: experiment who are subjected to the independent variable.
Ex: Other group gets or doesn't get treatrment, shouldn't have effect. Control Group: Experiment subject who aren't subjected to independent variable. Ex: Kids that play agressive videogame, get aggressive & those who dont; doesn't. |
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Parts & action of a Neuron
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Neurons- Nerve cells,are structured for processing information.
Cell Body - Part of the neuron contains the nucleus, directs the manufacture substances the neuron needs for growth and maintenance. Dendrites - receive and orient info to the cell body; most nerve cells have numerous dendrites. Axon - Part of the neuron, carries info away from cell body to other cells. Each cell body, there is only one axon. |
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