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Psychology
Scientific study of behavior and the mental process
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Observable and Measurable
What are the qualifications for something to be considered a behavior
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Mental Process
Our dreams and perception (difficult to fact check and quantify)
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Cognitive
Thought=_________
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Dualism
Mind and body are seperate
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Socrates and Descartes
What two people support the idea of dualism
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Monism
Mind and body are one
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Aristotle
Who supports the idea of monism
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Empiricism
the idea that which we know comes from experience and observation/experimentation enable scientific knowledge
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Bacon, Locke, and Rasa
What three people support the idea of empiricism
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Wilhelm Wundt
Who founded the idea of experimental and structuralism psychology
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Objective and Subjective
What two structures were created from structuralism
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What you can see (5 senses)
What does Objective measure
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What you feel/experience
What does Subjective measure
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William James
Who created the idea of functionalism
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Cognitive approach
What is the approach on how we organize, sense, and perceive (how we organize information)
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Cognitive approach
What is “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”
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Figure ground, Similarity, Proximity
What are examples of a cognitive approach
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John B. Watson
Who created behavioralism
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Skinner
Who created the idea of operant Conditioning
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Behavioralism
What uses the environment to explain behaviors and mental processes
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Biological
What uses the nervous system to explain out behaviors and mental processes
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Pavlov
Who created the idea of classical conditioning
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Mary Calkin
First female apa president; completed a Ph. D. under William James that Harvard refused o award her
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Margaret Washburn
First official female psychology Ph. D.; second female apa president
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William James
Who is an american functionalist
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Structuralism (conscious)
An early school of thought that emphasized introspection as a tool to discover the structures of the mind
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Descartes
French philosopher who believed the mind and body are seperate
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Experimental Psychology
The filed of psychology that conducts experiments to study behavior and thinking
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Bacon
A British researcher who emphasized observation and experimentation
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Behaviorism
the field of psychology that believes only observable behavior is worthy of studying
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Locke
A British philosopher who believed the mind at birth is a ‘tabula rasa’ (clean slate)
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Humanistic psychology
Psychological perspective that emphasizes growth potential of healthy humans
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freud
Who emphasized the way emotions respond to childhood experiences and our unconsious thought processes effect our behavior
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the science of mental life
What did Freud define psychology as
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The scientific study of observable behavior
what did skinner and watson redefine psychology as
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Freudian psychology
What emphasized the way our unconsious thought process and our emotional responses the childhood experiences affect our behavior
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Led the field of psychology to its early interest in mental processes
what did the cognitive revolution lead to
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Cognitive neuroscience
The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition
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