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21 Cards in this Set
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Define Dualism
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2 distinct conjoined entities: material body and immaterial soul, control behavior
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Contrast of Dualism?
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Materialism
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"Founder" of Dualism
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Descartes
Believed non-human animals do not have souls and reflexes involuntary respond to simuli |
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Define Materialism
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The spirit or soul is a meaningless concept and nothing exist but matter and enery by physical processes with body by brain
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Believed in Materialism?
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Thomas Hobbes
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Define Empiricism
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Belief that all human knowledge and though derive from sensory experience (i.e. vision, hearing, touch, ect.)
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Contrast of Empricisim
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Nativism
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Define Congnitive psychology
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natural divisions may exist among various mental processes and that the mind can be understood by indentifying those basic processes and discovering how they interact.
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Which psychologist proposed that the study of consciousness should be replaced by the study of behavior?
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John B. Watson
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What is social psychology?
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Concentration of how people are influenced by others at a given moment
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What is cultural psychology?
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Concentration of how cultures evolve over time and influence the psychology of their people
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Which psychologist would be most likely to conduct research with animals?
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A behavioral psychologist
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Describe a Cultural psychologist
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research on differences among people living in different parts of the worlds and how their thoughts, feelings, and behavior are influenced by where they live.
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Define behaviorism
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Subject of study is obersvalbe behavior not the mind and the it should be understood in terms of its relationship to observable events in the environment rather than in terms of hypothetical events withing the individual
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Who is John Watson and his arguement?
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The founder of behaviorism; argued that all behavior is essentially reflexive as responses to events.
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Who is B.F. Skinner and his methods?
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A behaviorist who developed a new way to study animals and describe the learning processes
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Describe Skinner's emphasis?
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That stimuli are consequense of reponses: Operante responses: any behavioral actiontaht operates on the environment to produce a consequence like an electric shock
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Who is Sigmund Freud?
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He believed behavior was altered due to disturbing membories were buried in the unconscious mind.
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What did William James do?
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Found the perspective of functionalism, great thinker, writer, and teacher
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Difference between Watson's and Skinner's versions of behaviorism?
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Watson's believed stimuli that precede responses and Skinner believed stimuli are consequences of responses
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Differences between cultural psychology and social psychology
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cultural is how people are by the teachings of their cultural and social is how people are by the teachings of different people around them
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