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| the role of the enviornment in shaping and controlling behavior |
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| the role of unconscious motivation and early childhood experiences in determining behavior and thought |
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| the importance of an individuals subjective experience as a key to understanding his or her behavior |
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| the role of mental processes-perception,thinking, and memory-that underlie behavior |
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| the roles of inherited tendencies that have proven adaptive in humans |
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| the role of biological processes and structures, as well as heredity, in explaining behavior |
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| the roles of social and cultural influences on behavior |
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| systematic study of sensory thresholds, Absolute threshold |
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| minimum intensity of a stimulus that can be detected 50% of the time by a typical person |
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| just noticeable difference threshold, lowest chang of a stimulus noticeable 50% of the time by a typical person |
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| the just noticeable difference noticeability depends on perportion rather then a specific amount |
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| grandfather of psychology established psychology as an academic discipline |
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| subjects are doing the examining and reporting of what is going on |
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| took the study of psychology to america, founder of structuralism |
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| made psycholody include behavior, no longer depended on subjects to gather information |
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| studied digestion(involuntary behavior) known for the salivating dog study |
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| created skinner boxes, boxes withbuttons and levers to train animals to press or use these buttons and levers |
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| treated woman in vienna for "hysteria" freud theorized that all problems resulted from a problem within their subconcious |
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