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| Who introduced functionalism? |
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| the approach to psychology that focuses on how we learn observable responses; pioneered by B.F. Skinner and John B. Watson. |
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| psychodynamic perspective |
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| the approach to psychology that focuses on how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts; pioneered by Sigmund Freud. |
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| the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. |
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| scientific study that aims to solve practical problems. |
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| John B. Watson & B.F. Skinner |
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| Who led early behaviorist psychology? |
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| the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those that lead to increased reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations. |
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| social-cultural perspective |
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| the approach to psychology that focuses on how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures. |
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| the approach to psychology that focuses on the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences. |
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| the approach to psychology that focuses on the natural selection of traits and how it promotes the perpetuation of one's genes. |
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| historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth. |
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| branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy. |
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| the long-standing controversey over the relative contribution that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. |
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| a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living and achieving greater well-being. |
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| the differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given problem. |
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| a pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base. |
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| an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the mind. |
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| a branch of psychology that studies, assesess, and treats people with psychological disorders. |
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| an early school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function--how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish. |
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| the first female psychology Ph.D. |
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| the approach to psychology that focuses on how our genes and our environment influence our individual differences. |
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| Edward Bradford Titchener |
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| Who pioneered structuralism? |
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| the approach to psychology focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information. |
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| the APA's first female president. |
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| the view that (a) knowledge comes from experience via the sense, and (b) science flourishes through observation and experiment. |
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| the internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior--sensations, perceptions, dreams, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings. |
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| anything an organism does; any action we can observe and record. |
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| the Indian religious teacher who pondered how sensations and perceptions combine to form ideas. |
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| the Chinese religious teacher who stressed the power of ideas and of an educated mind. |
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| the Greek philosopher-teacher and his student who both concluded that mind is seperable from body and continues after the body dies, and that knowledge is innate. |
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| the Greek philosopher who derived principles by logic and careful observation; concluded that the soul is not seperable from the body, and that knowledge is not preexisting, but that it grows from the experiences stored in our memories. |
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| the French scientist and philosopher who concluded that "animal spirits" flowed from the brain through what we now call nerves to the muscles, provoking movement and memories formed as as experiences openened pores in the brain, into which the animal spirits also flowed; developed the first concept of how the immaterial mind and physical body communicate. |
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| Francis Bacon & John Locke |
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| The English scientists who helped form modern empiricism. |
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| Which philosopher most clearly rejected the idea that the mind is seperable from the body? |
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| In regards to the origin of knowledge; nature is to nurture as ______ is to ______. |
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| Edward Bradford Titchener was concerned primarily with the study of: |
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| Compared with structuralists, early behaviorists were much less likely to focus on the study of: |
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| an integrated perspective that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis. |
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