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24 Cards in this Set
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Empiricism |
The idea that what we know comes from experience and that observation and experimentation enable knowledge; only quantifiable data |
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Structuralism |
Early school of thought promoted by one and his student Kitchner; used in introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind |
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Experimental psychology |
The study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method |
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Behaviorism |
Could use that psychology should be an objective science and studies behavior without reference to mental processes |
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Humanistic psychology |
Is historically significant perspective that emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people |
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Freudian psychology |
Emphasize the ways that our unconscious thought processes and our emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behavior |
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Cognitive neuroscience |
The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition; including perception thinking memory and language |
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Psychology |
The study of behavior and mental processes |
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Nature-nurture issue |
A long-standing controversy over the relative contribution that jeans and experience make to the Dell development of psychological traits and behaviors |
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Natural selection |
The principle that, among the range of inherited traits variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations |
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Levels of analysis |
The differing complementary views, from biological psychological social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon |
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Biopsychosocial approach |
And integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis |
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The seven types of psychology |
biological, evolutionary, cognitive, humanistic, behavioral, psychodynamic, social-cultural |
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Psychometrics |
The study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits |
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Basic research |
Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base |
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Rationalism |
Uses empiricism and adds human reasoning |
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Behavioral psychology |
The study of observable behavior and its explanation by principles of learning |
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Biological psychology |
The study of the links between biological and psychological processes |
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Cognitive psychology |
The study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |
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Evolutionary psychology |
The study of the evolution of behavior in mind, using principles of natural selection |
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Humanistic psychology |
Studies how we meet our needs for loving acceptance |
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Psychodynamic psychology |
Studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders |
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Social-cultural psychology |
The study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking |
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Wilhelm Wundt |
Began the first psychological laboratory in Leipzig, Germany |
