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Counseling psych |
Branch of psych that assists people with problems in living & in achieving greater well-being |
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Educational psych |
Study of how psychological processes affect & can enhance teaching and learning |
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Biological psych |
Branch of psych that studies the links between biological and psychological processes |
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Psychodynamic psych |
Branch of psych that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior and uses that info to treat people with psychological disorders |
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Evolutionary psych |
Study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selection |
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Behavioral psych |
Scientific study of observable behavior |
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Francis bacon |
One of the founders of modern science; Novum Organuum |
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Mary Whiton Calkins |
Tutored by William James, became a pioneering memory researcher & 1st female president of APA |
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Charles Darwin |
Argued that natural selection shapes behaviors and bodies |
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Rene Descartes |
Promoted "dualism", mind and body are separate; agreed with Socrates and Plato |
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Sigmund Freud |
Controversial ideas of this famed personality theorist & therapist have |
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William James |
Legendary teacher-writer who mentored Mary Calkins |
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John Locke |
British political philosopher, wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; "blank slate" |
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E. B. Tichener |
Used introspection to search for the mind's strucural elements |
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B. F. Skinner |
Leading behaviorist, rejected introspection & studied how consequences shape behavior |
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Socrates |
469-399 b.c, concluded that the mind is separate from body; knowledge is born within us |
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Plato |
Socrates student, agreed with his teacher |
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Aristotle |
Plato's student, loved data, knowledge is not pre-existing |
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Wilhelm Wundt |
Conducted the first psych experiment and set up the first psych laboratory |
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Margaret Floy Washburn |
1st female to earn a PhD in pysch |
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Hindsight Bias |
Tendency to believe, after learning an outcome; "I knew it all along" |
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Critical Thinking |
Thinking that does not blindly accept arguments & conclusions examines assumptions |
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Theory |
Explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behavior |
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Hypothesis |
Testable prediction |
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Operation Definition |
Statement of the procedures used to define research variables |
