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18 Cards in this Set
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What is psychology? |
It is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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The three components |
Science -scientific methods used to observe behavior and draw conclusions Behavior-an act that can be directly observed Mental processes- internal thoughts, feelings , motives that can not be directly observed and privately experienced. |
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4 attitudes of scientific approach |
Critical thinking:therocessof reflecting deeply and actively, asking questions,a and evaluating the evidence Skepticism: the process of applying reason and critical thinking to determine validity. Objectivity: a lack of bias, judgement or prejudice Curiosity: the urge you feel to know more about something |
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What did Sidmund Freud do? |
His view of human nature was negative He believed human behavior is determined by unconscious sexual drives and aggressive impulses. |
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What is the goal of psychology |
To explain, describe and predict behavior. NOTE:SCIENTISTS ARE INTERESTED IN CONTROLLING BEHAVIOR AMD TRYING TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR |
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What is a myth? |
an unfounded belief and supernatural explanation |
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what is a philosofy? |
rational investigations natural explanation |
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what is the importance of the western philosofy ? |
(from greece) SOCRATES, PLATO AND ARISTOTLE debated the nature of thought and behavior , including the possible link between the mind and body . later RENE DESCARTES and others aregued that the mind and body were completely seperate entities and focused ther studies on the mind. |
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which subjects make up psychology? |
physiology and biology |
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who is WILHELM WUNDT |
a german philosopher - physician founded the academic discipline of phychology founding father of modern psychology 1879 - ESTABLISHED 1ST FIRST PSYCHOLOGY LABORATORY IN LEIPZIG , GERMANY experiment: time lag between hearing a sound and pressing the telegraph key . attempt to measure mental processes he also TALKS ABT STRUCTURALISM this is id of structures and basic elements of mental processes introspection(process) systematic , detailed self - reports were u |
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what did EDWARD B TITCHENER do?
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he came up with the term structuralism. |
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what did WILIAM JAMES DO? |
American physiologist, psychologist and physician id the functions and purposes of the mind in individuals adaptation and environment he believed the mind was fluid like ( not rigid) he called the continuous flow of information through the mind the STREAM OF CONCIOUSNESS why human thought is adaptive funtionalism meshed well with another intellectual development , CHARLES DARWINs principle of natural selection |
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what is the difference between structuralists and functionalists |
structuralists were looking inside the mind while functionalists were focusing on how humans interacted with the outside world |
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who came up with the theory of evolution? |
Charles Darwin |
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Natural selection |
competition for scarce resources who makes it genetic charcteristics that promote reproduction and survival favored environmental changes alter course of evolution |
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contemporary approaches current pyschological perspectives |
1 biological 2 behavioral 3 pschodynamic 4 humanistic 5 cognitive 6 evolutionary 7 sociocultural |
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What is the biological approach? |
it focuses on the body, specifically the brain and nervous system |
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define neuroscience |
study of the structure, function, development ,genetics ,biochemistry of the nervous system thoughts and emotionas have physical basis in brain allowed pychologists to better understand the brain |
