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All of UMN Psy 1001 terms.
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/10/2010

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Intellectual Parents of psychology
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Philosophy and Physiology
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Who is founder of Psychology?
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Wilheim Wundt
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What year and where did Wundt set up first psychology lab?
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1879 in leipzig.
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Wundt's primary approach to psychology?
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conciousness
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Structuralism addresses what questions?
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Analyze conciousness into basic elements. Find fundamental components of of conscious.
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Who is William James?
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James created Functionalism.
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Functionalism is?
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The belief we should find the function/purpose of consciousness, and studying how we adapt behavior to demands. Founded by William James, furthered by Charles Darwin.
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What are three traditions that have characterized psychology's developement?
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Psych is empirical, theoretically diverse, and evolves in a sociohistorical context.
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Who is the founder of behaviorism?
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John B. Watson, because he wanted verifiability.
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Behaviorists only study
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Observable behavior.
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Who is BF Skinner?
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Behaviorist. Internal events could not be studied scientifically. Free will is an illusion. Repeat action if positive response. Don't repeat if negative.
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Cognitive psychology replaced behaviorism because?
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Cognitive theorists study internal events to understand external events.
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Who is Jean Piaget?
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A psychologist who focused on children s cognitive development.
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What is the biological approach to psychology?
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That animal/human behavior can be explained by body structure and internal chemical process.
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Sigmund Freud's approach to psychology is?
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Psychoanalysis. Says internal method of thought is unconscious, and we are governed by it.
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Who was Carl Rogers?
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Rogers was a humanist that said behavior is governed by self-concept.
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Testing terms: Falsifiability, and Parsimony, mean.
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Falsifiability means something can be disproved. Parsimony is the simplest answer.
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Confirmation bias is...
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Looking for evidence to confirm beliefs.
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