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| The study of the mind and behavior |
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| what is social psychology? |
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| How people influence eachother |
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| What is clinical psychology? |
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| the study of psychological disorders |
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| What is personality psychology? |
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| The study of individuals/how their personality is reflected through actions, emotions, facebook, etc. |
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| What is health psychology? |
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| study of physical health and emotions |
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| Who is the father of modern experimental psych? |
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| Who set up the first psych laboratory and where? |
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| What is structuralism and who is the father of it? |
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| Wundt is the father. It is the basic elements of the mind. also called introspection which is researching the mind |
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| What is William James the founder of? |
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| The founder of modern psychology in the united states. |
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| What is functionalism and who is the father of it? |
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| Functions of mental processes in the mind. James |
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| Who came up with the psychodynamic perspective? |
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| What is the psychodynamic perspective? |
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| the study of the unconscious mind. Many things we do result from the processes that we're unconscious to. |
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| the want/pleasure princple |
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| The norms, rules and expectations you've been taught in society |
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| The middle between the id and super. Tries to please what the id ego wants within the rules of the super ego |
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| What is behaviorism? (behaviorist perspective) |
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| focuses only on behaviors and eliminating mental constructs |
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| Who is associated with behaviorism and associative learning? |
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| What is operational conditioning and who studied it? |
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| Skinner. Rewarding learning, things go up if u do good etc. |
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| What is the humanist perspective? Who studied it? |
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| People are oriented toward growth. How do people become the best they can be? Self-actualized. Rogers and Maslow |
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| What is the cognitive perspective? |
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| Behaviors can't explain everything, so it is language acquisition |
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| Understanding why humans are the way they are due to evolution. |
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| Most studied right now. It ties all types of areas of psych together |
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