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| Def. The study of human thought and behavior. |
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| What is the largest subdiscipline of psycology? |
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| Name three subdisciplines of psycology other than clinical. |
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| Counseling, Education, School, Industrial/organizational, Cognitive, Developmental, Neuroscience/biological, Health, Social-personality |
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| What is cognitive psychology? |
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| Def. The study of how we perceive, how we learn and remember, how we aquire and use language, and how we solve problems. |
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| What is a simple example of cognitive psychology? |
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| How people visualize objects in their minds is studying this type of psychology. |
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| What is the term for scientists who study cognitive pyschology? |
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| What are Experimental Psychologists? |
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| What is Developmental psychology? |
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| The study of how thought and behavior change and show stability across the life span. |
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| What is an example of developmental psychology? |
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| The examples are questions studied such as: How do our reasoning skills or emotional skills changes as we age? How does parent-infant bonding affect adult relationships? Does old age bring wisdom? |
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| What is Behavioral-Neuroscience? What type of psychology is this study related to? |
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| The study of the links among brain, mind, and behavior. It is related to biological psychology. |
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| What are a few examples of Behavioral neuroscience? |
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| How the brain fuctions are involved in learning, emotion , social behavior, and mental illness. |
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| What is Biological psychology? |
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| The study that examines the relationahiop between bodily systems and chemicals and their relationship to behavior and thought. |
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| What is personality psychology? |
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| The study of what makes people unique as well as the consistencies in the people's behavior across time and situations. |
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| What is social psychology? |
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| The study of how the real or imagined presence of others influences thought, feeling, and behavior. |
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| What is an example of social psychology? |
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| Research on prejudice and racism. |
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| What is Clinical psychology? What is its relative? |
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| The study that focuses on the treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and ways to promote psychological health. Counseling psychology is a relative. |
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| What is different about counseling psychologists as compared to clinical psychologists? |
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| These psychologists deal with less severe cases of mental health challenges than the latter type. |
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| What is Health psychology? |
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| The examination of the role of psychologyical factors in physical health and illenss. |
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| What are a few areas of work for Health psychologists? |
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| These psychologists workin kesease prevention, treatment, and rehabiltation. |
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| What is Educational psychology? What three types of psychology does this connect? |
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| The study that examines how students learn, the effectiveness of particular teaching techniques, and the psychology of teaching. This study connects cognitive, developmental and social psychology. |
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| What is Industrial/ organizational psychology? |
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| The study that applies a broad array of psychological concepts and questions to work settings and problems. |
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| What is sports pyschology? |
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| The study that examines the psychological factors in sports and exercise. |
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| What is Forensic psychology? What types of work does this connect? |
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| The study that can make legal evaluation of a person's mental competency to stand trial, the state of mind of a defendant at the time of a crime, the fitness of a a parent to have custody of children, or allegations of child abuse. This connects psychology, law and criminal justice. |
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| What is a Shaman? What time period where shamans found in? |
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| A medicine man or woman found in the Prehistoric era. |
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| What is the practice of trephination? What are two reasons why this was performed? |
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| To drill a small hole in a person's skill. Done either for medical reasons such as an injury or psychological reasons such as to release a spirit. |
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| Which two cultures were the first to focus on natural and physical explanations for disorders? |
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| During the era of BCE what was the common shift of thought about psychology? |
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| During this time period the shift of thought was from supernatural explanations toward natural and physiological explainations. |
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| In Europe during the times between 400 and 1400 CE, psychological disorders were again attributed to . |
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| Time. Supernatural causes. |
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| What is "moral treatment"? What time period was this introduced in? Who is the individual that pushed this forward in the United States? |
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| Def. To provide a relaxing place for patients to be treated. Brought up in the 19th Century. Dorothea Dix. |
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| German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin |
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- 1880s and 1890s
- Collected data on the various kinds of psychological disorders and classified them. Poplularized "schizophrenia"
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- Turn of the 20th century
- Developed psychoanalysis
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Def. A clinical approach to uderstanding and treating psychological disorders.
- Unconsious mind is most powerful force
- Dreams have meaning
- Childhood experiences are powerful
- Uncouscoius blocking is at the heart of all maladaptive adult behavior
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual |
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- 17th Century CE
- Defined empiricism
- Argued the mind begins as a blank slate
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| Def. The view that knowleged and thoughts come from experience. |
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- The first scientific form of psychology
- Laboratory studies of the subjective experiences of physical sensations.
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| Ernst Weber and Gustav Fechner |
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- 1795-1878; 1801-1889
- laid the groundwork for psychophysics
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- 1821-1894
- Contributed to membory, physiology, and color vision
- First to calculate the speed of the nerve impulse
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- 1832-1920
- Created a laboratory for psychology
- Credited with giving psychology its independence from philosphy and physiology.
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- 1844-1924
- Opended the first psycholgoy lab in the US.
- Founded the APA
- Started the first psychology journal
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| The foudner of psychology in the US |
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| What is structuralism? What was the method used to practice this? |
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| Def. The breaking down of an exerience into its elemental parts. Introspection was used to look into one's owm mind for information about the nature of conscious experience. |
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| What is the belief of a functionalist? |
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| A practice of looking at why the mind works the way it does. The method was introspection. |
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- 1913
- Challenged introspection by introducing behaviorism
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| Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers |
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- 1940s and 1950s
- Introduced humanistic psychology
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| What is humanistic psychology? |
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| Def. The promotion of personal growth and meaning as a way of reaching one's highest potential. |
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| What is Positive psychology? |
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| A psychology much like humanism that is more scientific. |
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| What is Gestalt psychology? |
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| Def. A theory of psychology that maintains that we perceive things as wholes rather than as a compilation of parts. |
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| Def. Best understood as as the computer being a metaphor of the mind. |
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| Explain the nature-nurture debate. |
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Who we are comes from inborn tendencies and genetically based traits.
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We are all the same at birth and are influenced only by our environment. |
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| Explain mind-body dualism. |
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| The idea that the mind and the body are two seperate entities. |
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| Explain the evolutionary psychology. |
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| The branch of psychology that studies human behavior by asking what adaptive problems it may have solved for our early ancestors. |
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