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Psyche |
Mind/ soul |
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Logos |
Study |
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Considered as divine |
Logos/ soul |
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Psychology is a scientific study of: |
Experience, behavior and mental process |
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Awareness of the things that we sense |
Sensation |
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Focuses on a particular thing |
Attention |
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Put meaning to things |
Perception |
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Knowledge and skills acquired from experience |
Learning |
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Stored in the human mind |
Memory |
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Capacity of humans to be critical thinkers |
Thinking |
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Psychological processes: |
Sensation, attention, perception, learning, memory, thinking |
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Goals of Psychology: |
Description, explanation, prediction, control |
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What has occured |
Description |
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Why it has occured |
Explanation |
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When it will occur again |
Prediction |
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How it can be changed |
Control |
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Founder of Psychology |
Wilhelm Wundt |
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Introduced the schools of Psychology |
Wilhelm Wundt |
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Basic elements of the human mind |
Structuralism |
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Purpose and function of behavior |
Functionalism |
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"Organized whole"; behavior as a whole |
Gestalt Psychology |
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Freudan; focuses on personality |
Psychoanalysis |
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Child self |
Id |
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Adult self |
Ego |
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Moralistic self |
Super ego |
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Focuses on the condition of the human mind |
Behaviorism |
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Prescribe medications (M.D.) |
Psychiatrist |
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Observant of freudan theory (PhD or MD) |
Psychoanalyst |
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Studies basic psychology (PhD) |
Psychologist |
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Involved in the community |
Psychiatric Social Worker |
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Deals with everyday life |
Counseling Psychologist |
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Guidance counselor |
School Psychologist |
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Provide mental health services |
Clinical psychologist |
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Work in the lab |
Experimental Psychologist |
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Address learning system in schools |
Educational Psychologist |
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Behaviors of worker in workplace |
Industrial/ Organizational Psychologist |
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Make board exam questions |
Psychometric Psychologist |
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Date of first lab of experimental psychology |
Late 1800s |
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Scientists attempt to communicate and produce these experience to standardized ways |
Objectifying experiment |
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Objective tests: |
Perceptual Capacities, Fluctuation of Attention, Ranges of Sensitivities, Experienced Memory |
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Explanation that all human actions are products of our volition |
Theoretical System |
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Explains an act |
Motives |
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Can be selective or constructive attentional processes |
Volition Acts |
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Psychological processes are controlled under this |
Central Intentional Process |
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Intentional process; images of the human mind |
Psychological process |
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Product, structure, system |
Images |
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All human behavior, actions, etc. are derived from volition |
Wundt's Theoretical System |
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Made by the experiencing subject with the reference to the rule system |
Actions |
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Disruption in the CIP |
Abnormality of Behavior |
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Goals in dealing with mental problems |
Apperceptive synthesis and analysis |
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Mental clearness |
Apperceptive synthesis |
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Mental distinctiveness |
Apperceptive analysis |
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3 Dimensions of emotional experience |
> Pleasant vs. Unpleasant Emotional Experience > High Arousal vs. Low Arousal > Concentrated Attention vs. Relaxed Attention |
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According to him, psychology is the study of mental activity |
William James |
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3 kinds of Casual Relationship: |
> Input Condition > Output Condition > Internal Role Condition |
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Causes subject to have mental state |
Input condition |
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Certain type of mental state which causes emergence of others |
Output Condition |
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Give rise to certain type of bodily behavior |
Internal Role Condition |
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3 Components of Self |
Material self, Social self, Spiritual Self |
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Bodily, family and all properties owned |
Material self |
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Self known by many |
Social self |
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State of consciousness, ones subjectivity |
Spiritual self |
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Law of Gestalt |
Regularity, simplicity, stability |
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Activity of organism to impose order in the field of experience in a predictable way |
Law of Pragnanz |
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Ability to encounter the incomplete and make it complete |
Law of closure |
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Occurs everytime we get new experience |
Presence of Trace Systems |
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Process of relating new information to the previous ideas thereby increasing our knowledge |
Encoding |
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Setting aside of dangerous ideas |
Repression |
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Manifestation of the conscious mind |
Dreams |
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Elements of a dream: |
> Manifest > Latent |
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Settings, people, object, place |
Manifest |
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Meeting of the dream |
Latent |
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Not a mistake but come to be one by the unconscious |
Freudan slip of the tongue |
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Psychoanalysis needs to aim this stage |
Cure |
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7 defense mechanisms: |
> Rationalization > Projection > Sublimation > Reaction Formation > Displacement > Denial > Regression |
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Uses good sounding statement |
Rationalization |
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Having something undesirable and consider it owned by others |
Projection |
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Enables us to channel our undesirable emotions |
Sublimation |
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Done when a person believes in a sinful thing and unconsciously hates it |
Reaction formation |
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When a person's wish in found in dreams |
Displacement |
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Primitive form, not admitting, anything producing anxiety |
Denial |
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Reverts to easier forms of behavior found in a child to achieve calmness |
Regression |
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Needed when one experiences abnormality |
Clinical Therapy |
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When id defies superego |
Intrapsychic conflict |
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5 stages of psychosexual theory |
> oral stage > anal stage > phallic stage > latency stage > genital stage |
