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Human Behaviors Quiz 1
Introduction to Human Behaviors
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Psychology
11th Grade
09/16/2013

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Behavior
Definition
Action that people can observe or measure.
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Cognitive Activities
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Mental processes
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James
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Functionalism - how mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment.
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Sigmund Freud
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Psychoanalysis - unconscious behaviors.
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John B. Watson
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Behaviorism - defined psychology as the scientific study of observable hehavior.
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Little Albert
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Study done on a baby to see if its behavior could be changed by associating something scary with a teddy bear.
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B.F. Skinner
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Animals that are reinforced or rewarded for a certain action are more likely to perform it again.
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Operant Conditioning
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Behavior is modified by rewards/consequences.
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Clinical psychologist
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Includes child mental health, adult mental health, learning disabilities, genetics, and general health, anxiety, depression.
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Psychiatrist
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medical doctor that specialized in psychology, can prescribe meds.
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school psychology
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Works in a school, helps students.
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counseling psychologist
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therapy, treat people who have adjustment problems.
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educational psychologist
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make tests, planning instructional methods.
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Developmental psychologist
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study the changes that occur throughout a persons life span
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personality psychologist
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identify and study human behavior.
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Social psych
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deal with how people act in social situations.
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Experimental psych
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work in a lab, do studies.
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Wilhelm Wundt
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wanted to find the structure of the mind. structuralism.
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3 parts of the mind
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sensational, emotional, thoughts.
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EEGs
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measure brain activity
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lie detector
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tone of voice
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study human behavior
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molecular
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amygdale
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emotion
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stanley hall
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first psych lab in usa
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wrote the principles of psychology
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william james
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