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psychology
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scientific study of behavior and mental processes (any observable/recordable action; and internal subjective experiences inferred from behaviors)
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empiricism
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knowledge from expiernece
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tabula rasa
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john locke; mind at birth is a blank slate
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gestalt
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the entire (whole) does not equal the sum of the parts
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structuralism
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titchener; engagement of introspection to reactions and sensations; the elements and structures of the mind
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functionalism
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william james; explain why we do what we do.... consider the evolved functions of thoughts and feelings
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introspection
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wundt; objective sensations andsubjective feelings to deduce
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natural selection
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adaptive values/evolution
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biopsychosocial approach
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approach combining the influences of biology psychology and social-culuturally
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psychiatry
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medical specialty related to the study and treatment of mental disorders
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clinical psychology
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asses/treat the mental, emotional and behavioral disorders of patients
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francis galton
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psychology studying eugenics; hereditary values
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john locke
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tabula rasa, empiricism psychologist
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g stanley hall
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set up the first psych labs int eh united states; president of the APA, began teh first amer psych journal
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wilhelm wundt
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father of psychology; introspection
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edward titchner
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structuralism psychologist
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max wertheimer
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gestalt psychologist
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william james
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wrote the first psych textbook; functionalism psychologist
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charles darwibn
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scientist of natural selection
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mary calkins
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first woman to earn her psych pHD
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margaret floy washburn
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first woman to recieve her phd in psychology
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sigmund freud
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father of psychoanalysis, personality theorist/therapist, the unconcscious mind; ionstincts->personal gratification dictate individual behaviors
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john watson
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psychologist establishing psychology as the science of behavior
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B.F. Skinner
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bevhavioral approach psychologist
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carl rogers
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humanist approach psychologist
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psychoanalytic approach
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theory states bheavior comes from unocnscious drives and conflicts
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behavioral approach
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theory states that we learn how to behave thru responses to behavior
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evolutionary approach
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theory/approach states natural selection promotes certain genes
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humanist approach
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theory/approach that emphasizes the ability and capacity for human growth/developments
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cognitive approach
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theory/approach that studies how we encode process store and retrieve information
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sociocultural approach
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approach/theory that states behavior and thinking differs due to situations and cultures
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neurobiological approach
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approach.theory that states that the body and brain physically develope emotions and memory and senseory experiences
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