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How many school of thought? (pre 1900) |
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| When and where did Structuralism begin? |
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| Who started the school of Psychology? |
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| What did Wilhelm Wundt Study? |
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| structure of human consciousness |
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| Name the 2 methods used in order to study the structure of human consciousness |
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- Introspection: process by which people closely examine own thoughts. - Experimental: carefully controlled procedures to study behavior.
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| When and where did Functionalism begin? |
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| Who discovered Functionalism? |
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| What did William James say about Functionalism? |
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| Study should focus on how human mind functions in helping us adapt to our surroundings (consciousness). |
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| Where and when did Psychoanalysis begin? |
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| Late 1800's in Austria (1885) |
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| Who discovered Psychoanalysis? |
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| What did Sigmund Freud believe human behavior is influenced by? |
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Human behavior influenced by feelings and wishes tha are buried deep inside a person that they are unaware of. (subconscious) When buried feelings contradict those that we are aware of conflict results. |
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| How did Sigmund Freud examine ones subconscious? |
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Treatment is to make a person aware of subconscious feelings and determine source. Used radical methods of dream analysis "free association" and hypnosis. |
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Behaviorist: John B Watson Where did he come from and what did he believe? |
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U.S. "The mind cannot be seen, therefore it cannot be measured." |
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| What did John B Watson believe? |
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- Observable behavior should be the focus of psychology. - Surroundings determine personalities. - Behavior is shaped when our behavior to surroundings is [rewarded or punished]
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| What did Behaviorist B.F. Skinner do? |
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| Expanded Watsons theory (operant conditiong) |
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| What did Behaviorist Albert Bandura believe? |
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| Believed behavior is learned mostly through observations and imitation |
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| Where is Gestalt from and what does his name mean? |
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Germany "form" or "shape" |
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| Study how people use 5 senses to extract information from the environment |
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| What did Gestalt believe? |
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| Believes that the overall, form, shape, or pattern of things is determined by how people perceive a series of seperate sensations |
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How people perceive, store and interpret information a) Development of thought process over time. b) Connection between thought and feelings. |
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" I have will/choice, therefore I exist" 1) Focus on individual choice in determining human behavior 2)A combination of previous events & choice of individual determine belief that people have free will & behavior |
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1) How to develop maximum potential through health and self growth |
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a) People are more than the sum of its parts (Gestalt) b) People have free will (existential)
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