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Chapter One Dontavious Towner
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
08/25/2016

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Psychology

 

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The scientfic study of behavior and mental process.

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Behavior
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Outward or overt actions and reactions
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Mental Process
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Internal, covert activity of our minds
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Description
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Observing a behavior and noting everything about it.
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Theory
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A general explanation of a set of observations or facts.
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Prediciton
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Determining what will happen in the future
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Control
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The modification of some behavior is to change a behavior from an undesirable one to a desirable one.
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Philosopher
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people who seek wisdom and knowledege through thinking and discussion.
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Physiologist
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scientist who study the physical working of the body and its systems
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objective introspection
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the process of objectively examining and measuring one's own thoughts and mental activities
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Wilhelm Wundt
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A physiologist, "known as the father of psychology", who attempted to apply scientific principles to the study of the human mind
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Edward Titchner
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An Englishman who eventually took Wundt's idea and created structuralism
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Structuralism
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Focused on the structure or basic elements of the mind.
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Marget F. Washburn
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First woman to receive a Ph. D. in Psychology
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William James
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One of Harvard's most illustrious instructors who tagught psychology and anatomy.
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Objectivity
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Expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as they really are without allowing the influence of personal feelings, prejudice, or interpretation.
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Natural selection-
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Phsycial triats that help an animal adapt to its environment and survive are passed to offspring, joining the traits.
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Mary Whiton Calkins
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One of James Early students that became the first female president of American Psychological Association with a successful career as a professor and researcher.
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Francis Cecil Summer
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Became the first African American to earn a Ph.D in psychology.
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Educational Psychology
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studying the application of psychological concepts to education
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Industrial/Organization psychology
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Studying the application of psychological concepts to business, organizations, and industry.
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Heriditary
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The transmission of traits and characteristics from parents to offspring through the action of genes
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Gesalt Psychology
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Efforts to studying sensation and perception or studying whole patterns instead of small pieces at a time
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Unconscious
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Unaware
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Repress
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all threatening urges and desires
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sensing
Definition
seeing, feeling, tasting, or smelling something
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Psychotherapy
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process in which a trained psychological professional helps a person gain insight into and change his or her behavior
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Conditioning
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Training something to a learned reflexive response
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Observable Behavior
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something that could be directly seen and measured
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Phobia
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an irrational fear or syptoms of an underlying repressed conflict, and "cannot" be cured without psychanalysis to uncover and understand repressed material.
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Stimulus
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anything that causes an organism to have a resolution or response.
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Funtionalism
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How the mind allows peolpe to adapt, live, work, and play
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