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Chapter One- Bailey Bradshaw
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
08/23/2016

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Psychology
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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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The 4 Goals of Psychology
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Description, explanation, prediction, and control
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Structuralism
Definition
Focused on the structure or basic elements of the mind
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Functionalism
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How the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play
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Behaviorism
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Science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only
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Scientific Method
Definition
System of gathering data so that bias and error in measurement are reduced
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Correlation
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Measure of the relationship between two variables
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Gestalt
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“Good figure” psychology
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Cognitive psychology
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a field focusing not only on perception but also on learning, memory, thought processes, and problem solving
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Mary Whiton Calkins
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denied a PhD because she was a woman.
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Edward Titchener
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Wundt’s student who brought structuralism to America
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Margaret Washburn
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Titchener’s student who was the first woman to earn a P h.D in psychology
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Theory
Definition
general explanation of a set of observations or facts
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Wilhelm Wundt
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Developed the technique of objective introspection
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Objective Introspection
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process of examining and measuring thoughts and mental activities of someone
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Structuralism
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died out in the early nineteen hundreds
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Ivan Pavlov
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demonstrated that a reflex could be conditioned
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Little Albert
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a baby taught to fear a white rat
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Mary Cover Jones
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early pioneer in behavior therapy
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Psychodynamic perspective
Definition
modern version of psychoanalysis
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