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What are the Roots of psychological |
Philosophy and Physiology |
_____sophy, _____siology |
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What is phrenology? |
Examining the bumps on the skull to determine intellect and character traits (doesn't actually work) |
Bumps bumps bumps |
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What is psychology? |
The scientific study of behaviour and mental processes/ scientific study of conscious experience |
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What is a scientific study? |
The use of systematic methods to observe, describe, predict and explain observable things. |
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What is consciousness? |
The awareness of immediate experiences. Focuses on the brain |
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What are the 4 goals of psychology? |
1. Describe behaviour 2. Predict behaviour 3. Explain behaviour 4. Influence behaviour |
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Behaviour is the.......? |
Result of physiological and cognitive processes |
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What is psychological behaviour? |
Normal physiological activities: Breathing, eating and sleeping |
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Cognitive behaviour? |
Involves conscious intellectual activity: Thinking, reasoning, remembering. |
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Who is wilhelm wunatt? |
He is known as the founder of psychology German physician, physiologist, philosopher, and proffesor.He is known as the founder of psychologyOpened the first formal labratory in 1879 in leipzig, Germany. proffesor.He is known as the founder of psychologyOpened the first formal labratory in 1879 in leipzig, Germany. Opened the first formal labratory in 1879 in leipzig, Germany. |
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What did the do at wilhelm's labratory? |
Closely looked at religious beliefs, brain damage, identify mental disorders and abnormal behaviour. |
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What is structuralism and who is the founder? |
Edward Titchener who was one of wundts students. It is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and how these elements are related. Fundamental components including sensation, feelings and images. |
Body of car. |
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What is introspection? |
Careful, systematic self observation of one's own conscious experience. |
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Who is William James? |
Father of psychology withing the usa |
USA. Psych |
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What is fuctionalism? |
Based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness father than its structure. |
Inner parts of car rather then body. |
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What is conciousness? |
Consists of a continuous flow of thoughts = the stream of conciousness. |
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What is natural selection? |
The strongest, fastest and smartest survive while others die off. |
Survival of the fittest. |
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Who is Sigmund Freud? |
-Austria pshsician who founded the psychoanalytic approach to psychology. -his work with people with psychological problems like phobias, irrational fears, and anxieties. and anxieties. |
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Whay theory did Freud develop? |
A theory based on the existence of the unconscious. He felt disturbances were based on personal conflicts on an unconscious level. |
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Founder of behaviourism and what is it? |
John B Watson Observable behaviour not the conscious. |
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What dis Ivan pavlov do? |
Tuning fork Gave a dog some powdered meat. Dog soon associated tuning fork with receiving food. Activated salvation glands. |
Woof Woof woof |
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What experiment did skinner conduct? |
The eat experiment Two rats one hungry on fed Rats placed into area. Fed rat was chill other rat was frantic Both sniffed around but fed rat soon laid down hungry rat stayed crazy. Positive reinforcement reinforcement reinforcement |
Rat rat rat |
