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Chapter One - Madison Culpepper
Mrs. Grimes
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
08/25/2016

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Psychology
Definition
  • The scientific study of behavior and mental process.
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Behavior
Definition
  • Outward or overt actions and reactions.
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Mental Processes
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  • Internal, covert activity of our minds.
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Wihelm Wundt's Psychology Lab
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  • The lab was loacted in Germany in 1879.
  • Developed the technique of objective introspection.
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Objective Introspection
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  • Process of objectively examining and measuring one's thoughts and mental activities.
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Edward Titchener
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  • Wundt's student.
  • He brought structuralism to America.
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Margaret Washburn
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  • Titchener's student.
  • The first woman to get a PhD in psychology.
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Structuralsim
Definition
  • Focused on structure or basic elements of the mind.
  • It died out in the early 1900s.
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Functionalism 
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  • How the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play.
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Who propoased functionalism?
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  • William James.
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Functionalism influenced which modern fields?
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  • Educational psychology
  • Evolutionary psychology
  • Industrial/Organizational psychology
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Mary Whiton Calkins
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  • was denied PhD because she was a woman.
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What is Gestalt?
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  • "Good Figure" psychology.
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Who did Gestalt start with?
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  • Started with Wertheimer.
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What did Wertheimer study?
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  • He studied sensations and perception.
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Gestalt ideas are the study of what?
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  • Cognitive psychology
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Cognititve Psychology
Definition
  • A field focusing not only on perception, but also on learning, memory, though processes, and problem solving.
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Psychoanalysis
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  • Theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud.
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Sigmund Freud
Definition
  • His patients suffered from nervous disorders with no physical cause.
  • He proposed the existence of an unconscious mind into which we push or repress our urges and desires.
  • He stressed the importance of childhood experiences.
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Psychiatrist
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  • Medical doctor who has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders.
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