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39 Cards in this Set
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APA
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- "Psychology is a science, art, a means of promoting human welfare"
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Psychology
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- science that studies behavior and mental processes
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logos
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- study
- discuss - word |
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Psyche
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- Soul
- Mind - Spirit |
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Behavior
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- the activities of an individual, both hidden and observable
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Mental processes
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- how we think (cognitive)
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Explain
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- why it is going on
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naturalistic observation
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- the study of behavior in real life settings
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control
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- the behavior or problem
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predict
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- what will happen if a variable is changed
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Edward Titchner
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- Wundts student
- Structuralism- identify the basic elements of experience - images, affections, physical sensations |
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Describe
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- what is going on in the individual
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Evolutionary psychology
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- studies adaptive value of behaviors
- positive psychology - studies well being and happiness - focus is on positive attitude - human diversity |
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Cognitive psychology
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- deals with study of mental processes
- the ways we percieve, interpret, store, and retrieve info - mental processes are studied |
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Sigmund Freud
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- father of psychoanalysis
- psychotherapy- using psychology techniques to treat personality and behavioral disorders - Large impact on academic psychology |
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B.F. Skinner
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- behaviorism
- changed behavior through conditioning - reinforcment applied - skinner box to train animals - dehumanized human |
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Carl Rogers, rollo may, abraham maslow
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- existential psychology
- alienation and lack of meaning leads to apathy, psychological problems and alcoholism |
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John watson
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- declared mental life cannot be measured nore seen and therefore should not be studied scientifically
- founded behaviorism - conditioned little albert to be afraid of white rats and white objects |
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Max Wertheimer
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- (gestalt) psychology
- Gestalt means whole - We are born with natural tendency to organize experience into something meaningful - studies how people percieve and experience objects |
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Mary Callans
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- First female president of APA
- studied under william james |
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Consumer psychology
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- how and why products sell and the designing of ads
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William James
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- professor at harvard
- functionalism- how organisms use there abilities to function in their enviroment - father of animal psychology |
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Magaret Washburn
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- the animal mind (1908)
- implicated the early movement of behaviorilsm - second female president of the APA |
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Wilhem Wundt
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- 1879 founded the first psych lab in germany
- only four students attended his lecture - introduced experimentation and measurment - believed the mind should be studied scientifically |
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Empirical evidence is based on-
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- experimentation
- observation - evidence - actual facts |
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Francis Galton
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- everything was due to heridity
- mental tests |
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Enviromental Psychology
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- how the enviroment affects us
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Empirical evidence
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- what we learn through our senses
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Educational Psychology
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- student guidance
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Community Psychology
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- how to better communities
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industrial/organizational psychology
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- study the structure of organizatoin
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Psychology is based on (2)
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- the scientific method
- empirical evidence |
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Developmental psychology
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- the processes of developing
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Social psychology
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- how society influences ones self
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Experimental psychology
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- do experiments on processes on IQ, sensations, motivation, etc.
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Personality Psychology
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- differences in traits
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Clinical
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- diagnoses and treats abnormal disorders
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Counseling
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- deals with everyday normal problems of adjustment
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Clinical and counseling
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- over 50% of psychologist practice this form
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