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The discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism's physical state, mental state, and external environment.
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Psychology
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Evidence gathered by careful observation, experimentation, and measurement.
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Emerical
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Founder of Psychology
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Wilhelm Wundt
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An early psychological approach that emphasized the analysis of immediate experience into basic elements.
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Structuralism
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Founder of structuralism
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EB Titchener
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Emphasized the function or purpose of behavior, as opposed to analysis and description.
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Functionalism
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Founder of Functionalism
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William James
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Listening to his patients reports of depression, nervousness, and obsessive habits. Patients symptoms had mental, not physical causes. Their distress, he concluded, was due to conflicts and emotional traumas that had occurred in early childhood and that were too threatening to be remembered consciously
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Psychoanalysis
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Founder of Psychoanalysis
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Sigmund Freud.
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Focuses on how bodily events affect behavior, feeling and thought.
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Biological Perspective
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How the environment and experience affect a person's (or a nonhuman animals) actions.
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Learning Perspective
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Combine elements of behaviorism with research on thoughts, values, expectations, and intentions.
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Social Cognitive Learning theorist (part of Learning Perspective)
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Emphasizes what goes on in people's heads. how people reason, remember, understand language, solve problems, explain experiences, and form beliefs. How people's thoughts and explanations affect their actions, feelings, and choices.
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Cognitive Perspective
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Focuses on social and cultural forces outside the individual. forces that shape every aspect of behavior, from how (and whatever!) we kiss and what we eat.
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Social/cultural perspective
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A psychological approach that emphasizes personal growth, resilience, and the achievement of human potential, rather than scientific understanding and assessment of behavior.
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Humanist Psychology
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a psychological approach that analyzes the influence of social inequalities on gender relations and the behavior of the two sexes.
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Feminist psychology
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Conducts lab studies of learning, motivation, emotion, sensation, perception, psychology, and cognition.
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Experimental Psychologist
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Psychological principles that explain learning and to search for ways to improve the educational systems.
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Educational Psychologist.
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Study how people change and grow over time, physically, mentally, and socially.
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Developmental Psychologist
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Study behavior in the work place.
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Industrial/organizational psychologist
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Design and evaluate test of mental abilities, aptitudes, interest, and personality.
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Psychometric psychologist.
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Diagnose, treat, and study mental or emotional problems.
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Clinical psychologist
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Medical doctor who has done a three year residency in psychiatry to learn how to diagnose and treat mental disorders under the supervision of more experienced physicians. Can give medication if needed and take a more biological approach.
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Psychiatrist
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The ability and the willingness to access claims and make objective judgments on the basis of well supported reasons and evidence, rather than emotional and anecdote.
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Critical Thinking
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The 8 ways to be a good critical thinker.
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CAT DAD AE
Consider other interpretations Ask questions Tolerate uncertainty Define your terms Avoid emotional reasoning Don't oversimplify Analyze assumptions and biases Examine the evidence |
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5 ways psychology can help you.
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Make you a more informed person Satisfy your curiosity about human nature Give you insights into political and social issues Help you increase your control over life Help you on the job |
