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Chapter 1 Things to Know
Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Psychology
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Physiology
12th Grade
08/10/2011

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Socrates/Plato
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Believed the mind was separate from the body and continued to exist even after death.
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Aristotle
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Soul is not separable from the body, and knowledge is gained via experience.
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Locke
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Mind is a tabula rasa or blank slate and waiting to be filled with experiences.
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Francis Bacon
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scientific method
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Rene Descartes
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First to question the fact of how the mind communicates with the body.
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Empiricism
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knowledge is gained from experiences through sense and science flourishes through experimentation
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Charles Darwin
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influenced psyche through natural selection. Traits for survival and reproduction.
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William Wundth/Edward Titchener
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came up with structuralism
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Structuralism
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personality is the result of the structure of an individual.
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introspection
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look into oneself for experience
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William James
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Psyche lab at Harvard and Principles of Psychology book
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Functionalism
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opposition to structuralism. Human thoughts and feelings arise from the funcitons.
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Ivan Pavlov
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Classical Conditioning a behaviorist technique
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Classical conditioning
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Stimuli meets stimuli to conclude that observable actions are important.
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Sigmund Freud
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unconscious mind and effects on human behaviour
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Sigmund Freud
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unconscious mind and effects on human behaviour
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John Piaget
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developmental psychologist who formulated the stages of cognitive development, sensory motor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational
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J.B Watson/B.F. Skinner
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emphasized overt behavior as subject matter of sci psychology.
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operant conditioning
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cause and effect (repent behaviors)
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mary collins
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woman to receive PHD in psyche and first pres of APA.
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maslow/carl rogers
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emphasized current envio influences on our growth and potential and our need for love and acceptance
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biopsychosocial approach
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uses all three: biological, psychosocial, and social cultural
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humanistic psychology
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environmental influences shake potential and love and acceptance needs
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neuroscience
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body,brain enable emotions
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evolutionary
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how natural selection of traits effect our situations
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behavior genetics
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genes and environment influence behavior
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pscyhodynamic
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behavior from unconscious drives and conflict
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cognitive
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encode proceess store, and retrieve info
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social-cultural
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behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures
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stability vs change
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people and behavior remain gerneally the same over time
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rationality vs irrationality
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thinking based on facts and logic. irrational thinking relies more on intuition feelings and kindness
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nature vs nurture
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either influenced by nature and biology or by personality and behavior
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basic research
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psychologists who exp. and gather data in order to advance psych and knowledge
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applied research
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raking the empirical data from basic research and putting it into practice in a clinical therapy setting
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clinical
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studies, assesses and treats people with psych disorders
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counsel
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cope with academic, vocational, martial
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educational
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individuals in school and education
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industrial
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workplace
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psychologist
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stuides, assesses, and treats toubled individuals with psychotherapy
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psychiatrist
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use drugs and psychotherapy to treat psychologically depressed patients
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