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| Who is considered to have started psychology? |
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| What did Wilhelm Wundt apparatus hope to measure? |
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| measured "atoms of the mind"/reaction time |
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| used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind |
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| examination of one's own conscience, thoughts and feelings. |
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| explored how mental and behavioral processes function how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish. |
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| Who 'created' structuralism? |
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| Willhelm Wundt and Edward Bradford Titchener |
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| Who 'created' functionalism and who were they influenced by? |
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| William James; Charles Darwin |
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| Who was the first female president of the APA? |
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| Who was the first woman to obtain a Ph.D in psychology? |
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| Margaret Floy Washburn;1921 |
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| Why did introspection fail as a method of understanding how the mind works? |
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| Everyone has different perspectives and personal experiences. |
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1. belief that the study of the mind should be objective
2. studies behavior without reference to mental processes. |
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| Focused on current environmental influences and their relationship with a person's potential growth or limitations |
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| Based on how we perceive, process, retain and access information. |
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| Subjective experiences we infer from behavior such as: sensations, beliefs, feelings. |
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