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33 Cards in this Set
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How does psychobabble or pseudoscience differ from serious psychology? |
Psychology’s method and reliance on empirical evidence. Psychobabble confirms our existing beliefs and prejudice whereas psychology ofthen challenges them. |
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What was the case pf phrenology? |
The discredited theory that different brain areas account for character and personality traits which can be read from bumps on the skull. |
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When? Where and who was the official founder of scientific psychology? |
Wilhelm wundt -leipzig germeny- 1879 |
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What did wilhlem wundt focus alot on? |
Introspection- |
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What was Trained introspection about? |
Volunteers were taught to carefully observe and analyze and describe their own sensations, mental images and emotional reactions. |
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Who invented structuralism? |
E.b titchener |
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What was the structuralism about? |
Inspired by trained introspection. It emphasized the analaysis of immediate experience into basic elements. |
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What was functionalism about? And who was the inventor? |
William james- it was inspired by evolutionary theories of charles Darwin. Emphasized the purpose of behaviour |
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What was psychoanalysis about and who was the inventor? |
Sigmund freud. Psychoanalysis emphasized on unconscious causes of mental and emotional problems. |
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Psychology has been a science for more than (2000/125) years |
125 |
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The forerunners of modern psychology depended heavily on (casual observation/empirical methods) |
Casual observations |
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Credit for founding modern psychology is generally given to (william james/ wilhelm wundt)? |
Wilhelm wundt |
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Early psychologists who emphasized how behaviour helps an organism adapt to its environment were known as ( structuralists/functionalists) ? |
Functionalists |
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The idea that emotional problems spring from unconscious conflicts originated with ( mind cure movement/ psychoanalysis) |
Psychoanalysis |
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What are the major five psychological perspectives? |
The biological perspective The learning perspective The cognitive perspective The sociocultural perspective The psychodynamic |
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What was mind cure about? |
Mind cures were effort to correct the false ideas that were said to make people feel anxious, depressed, nervousness and obsessive habbits. |
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What is the biological perspective about? |
It focuses on how bodily events affect behaviour, feelings, and thoughts. The message of the biological approach is that we cannot really know ourselves if we don’t know our bodies. |
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What is the learning perspective about ? |
It is concerned with how the environment and experience affect a person’s actions. |
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What do social-cognitive learning theorists emphasize on? |
They combine events of behaviourism with research on thoughts, values, expectations, and intentions They believe that people learn not only by adapting their behaviour to the environment but also by imitating others and by thinking about events happening around them |
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What does the cognitive perspective emphasize on? |
It emphasizes on what goes on in people’s head. How people reason, remember, understand and solve problems. |
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Sociocultural perspective emphasize on? |
Social and cultural influences on behaviour |
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What does psychodynamics perspective emphasize on? |
It emphasizes on the unconscious dynamics within the individual, such as inner forces, conflicts, pr the movement of instinctual energy |
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Anxious people often think about the future in distorted ways. Choose Behavioural Psychodynamic Sociocultural Biological Cognitive |
Cognitive |
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Anxiety is due to forbidden, unconscious desires. Behavioural Psychodynamic Sociocultural Biological Cognitive |
Psychodynamic |
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Anxiety symptoms often bring hidden rewards, such as excused from exams. Behavioural Psychodynamic Sociocultural Biological Cognitive |
A psychological approach that emphasizes personal growth and achievement of human potential rather then scientific understanding and assessment of behaviour |
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Excessive anxiety can be caused by chemical imbalance Behavioural Psychodynamic sociocultural Biological Cognitive |
Biological |
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A natural emphasis on competition and success promotes anxiety about failure Behavioural Psychodynamic Sociocultural Biological Cognitive |
Sociocultural |
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Defining credentials of Psychotherapist |
May have any credentials or none |
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Defining credentials of Psychiatrists |
Has an MD, tends to take medical approach to mental problems |
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Defining credentials Clinical psychologist ? |
Has a PHD, PsyD or EeD Does research on, or psychotherpy for mental health problems |
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Credentials and well work of research psychologists? |
Has an advanced degree and does applied or basic research |
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who are Psychoanalyst ? |
Trained in therapeutic approach started by freud. |
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Whats the difference between applied psychology and basic psychology? |
Applied psychology is concerned with practical uses of psychology Basic psychology is concerned with knowledge for its own sake |
