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Scientific study of mind and behavior
Influenced by Philosophy and Physiology |
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Certain things in our minds are with us when we are born.
Founder: Plato |
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All human knowledge is acquired after birth and learned through experience.
Founder: Aristotle |
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Idea that specific mental ideas and characteristics are linked to specific parts of the body
Founder: Gall |
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| Tries to find the link between the parts of the brain and our minds |
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Skinner: your behaviors are illicit by the rewards and consequences in their environment
This suggests that our behavior is driven by outside forces which suggests that we do not have free wil |
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| Argued that the mind was not something that could be tested so psychology was not to incorporate the parts of the mind but only behavior. Behaviorism is based on philosophical empiricism |
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| Seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations - that is, the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection. Currently Unproveable |
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Study of the purpose mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment
Founder: James |
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Genes and mutation determine natural selection and the advancement of species i.e. survival of the fittest.
Founder: Darwin |
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Mind and body are separate
Founder: Descartes |
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| Area of brain linked to speech |
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| Study of biological processes |
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The analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind.
Founder; Wundt |
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focuses on bringing unconscious material into conscious awareness to better understand psychological disorders.
Founder: Freud |
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Temporary loss of cognitive or
motor functions, usually as a result of emotionally upsetting experiences. |
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study of only observable behavior
Founder: Watson |
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| consequences of a behavior determine whether it will be more or less likely to occur again |
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| Attempts to find links between cognition and brain activity |
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| Difference Between Observational Study and Experiment |
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| Characteristic of an observation that allows one to draw accurate inferences from it |
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| Ability for a measure to be repeated. |
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| Ability of a measure to display different results for different things |
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| The extent to which you can generalize your results to the outside population |
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| Selection of subjects randomly with equal chance of any person in population being selected |
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| Aspects of an observational setting that cause people to behave as they think an observer wants or expects them to behave |
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| Gathering information by unobtrusively observing subject in natural environment. |
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| Observation whose true purpose is hidden from the researcher as well as from the participant. |
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| Value of one is systematically related to the value of the other |
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| Two variables are correlated only because they are both caused by third variable. |
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| Study that assesses personality and psychological problems. Drawbacks such as ability of participant to lie and the inability of test to measure all personality attributes accurately |
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| Interprets personality based on responses to being shown inkblots. Highly subject and unreliable |
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| conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extroversion. |
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Approach that regards personality as formed by needs,
strivings, and desires, largely operating outside of awareness motives that can also produce emotional disorders |
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id: Animalistic desires
ego: Logical and practicality
Superego: Morals |
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| defense mechanism that involves supplying a reasonable-sounding explanation for unacceptable feelings and behavior to conceal (mostly from oneself) one’s underlying motives or feelings. |
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| Defense mechanism where ill will is channeled into culturally beneficial areas |
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| Defense mechanism where one takes role of offender in the future to deal with threat |
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| Defense mechanism where ill will is taken out on something other than offender |
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| Defense mechanism where one acts immaturely to deal with threat |
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| Defense mechanism where ones ill will is attributed to another group |
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| Defense mechanism where ill will is responded to with positivity |
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