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18 Cards in this Set
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Who is the father of Behaviorism? |
John Watson |
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Psychology is the study of *blank* and *blank: |
behavior and mental processes |
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What study did Ivan Pavlov do? |
Pavlov focused on the study of classical conditioning. |
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What is Biological/Neuroscience Perspective? |
All of your feelings and behaviors have an organic root |
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What is the Evolutionary Perspective? |
We behave the way we do because we inherit those behaviors(Darwinism |
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What is the Psychoanalytic perspective? |
Focuses on the unconscious mind |
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What is the Behavioral Perspective? |
Observable Behaviors(NOT FEELINGS!) |
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What is the Humanist Perspective? |
Stresses the good in human behavior |
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What is the Cognitive Perspective? |
How we think, process, or decode information |
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What is the social/cultural perspective? |
Much of your behaviors are dictated by society |
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What is central tendency? |
A measure of averages; mean, median, mode, range |
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What is standard deviation? |
variance of scores around the mean |
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What is a confounding variable? |
The confounding variable correlates with the dependent AND independent variable (placebo effect) |
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What were Aristotle's beliefs on the human soul and knowledge? |
Aristotle believed that the mind WAS NOT separate from the body, and that knowledge comes from experience. |
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What were Socrates and Plato's beliefs on the human soul and knowledge? |
Socrates and Plato believed that the mind WAS separate from the body, and that you are naturally born with knowledge. |
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Who was Descartes and what were his beliefs? |
Descartes agreed with Socrates and Plato that the mind is distinct from the body. |
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Who was John Locke and what were his beliefs on human experience? |
Locke believed that people are born with a "blank sheet", and knowledge comes as we grow older |
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What is empiricism? |
The idea that knowledge only comes from experience, and that science should only rely on observation and experimentaion |
