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| Misconceptions about Psychology |
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1) Concern since 1st meeting of the APA
2) Only 50% believe scientific approach benefits understanding human behavior |
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| People want Psychology to answer big questions like |
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· How do I find true love? |
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| Even though people want psychology to answer questions they fear that psychology might reveal.. |
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o Spiritual/religious, abortion, capital punishment, terrorism (mirror-images), etc……. |
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| People dont understand that ____ doesn't answer big questions and neither does_____ |
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Science;· Biologist/doctors and life?
· Lawyers and ethics?
· Artists and beauty?
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| 4 national UK channels showed 560 hrs. of programing and devoted 3 1/2 hours to___ |
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| science (mostly natural histor) |
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| The Times (UK) averages of ___ of text is science coverage |
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| Science sources named much less frequently when source was ___ rather than ___ |
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| when named natural scientists was more likely to be called a ___ |
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| scocial scientists more likley to be called ___ |
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crazier than his patients |
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corrupt mind controller/homicidal manic |
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caring & competent, endless time for patients, cures by uncovering single traumatic event |
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strict killjoy (Big Bang Theory) |
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inappropriate relationships with patients |
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| There are misconseptions about: |
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| Popular Media suggests Psychology is a |
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| self help "reciple Knowledge" (1st do this, then do this , then do this) |
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| Popular media also suggests that Psychologist and Psychiatrists are___ |
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| Popular Media suggests evangalists psychologist are___ |
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| Pop books/ articles typically not wrtten by___ |
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| publishing wrong information in a book and claming its true |
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| Media suggest that pseudo science and parasycholoy are part of___ |
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| only few put legitimate psychological research in a form accessible to who? |
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| 83% belived that daily life experience provided adequate training in___ |
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| Central characterization of psyschology involved work with ___ |
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| Who has similar perceptions about psychology? |
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| Disney animated films portray what in their movies? |
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| full-time faculty at Old Dominion believed psycholoy required less expertise than who? |
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| Full time faculty at Old Dominion associated psychology with ___ |
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| metnal illness and treatment |
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| There is a fail to correct misconceptions about psychology as a____ |
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| Discuss 4 ways that the media promotes misconceptions of Psychology. |
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1) Suggests Psychology is self-help “recipe knowledge”
2) Suggests Psychologists and Psychiatrists are for the weak minded
3) Suggests evangelists psychologists are experts
4) Pop books/articles typically not written by scientific psychologist
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| What are 5 ways people misconceive Psychology? |
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1). media
2) books
3). movies
4). newspaper articles
5) scientific sources |
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| What is the mind-body debate and why is it important? |
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· How does it interact with the brain? |
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| Early religion’s views of the mind/body/behavior |
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· Vessel for the soul/spirits |
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| Contributions of Saint Augustine |
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§ Identifies different kinds of thought in the mind |
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| Contributions of Saint Aquinas |
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· Body and soul are united |
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| What is Malleus Maleficarum? |
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Hammer of witches
· Fuels witch hunt craze |
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| Whats is the Doctrine of Double Truths? |
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§ CAN argue and debate about natural phenomena and religion without losing faith |
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| Contributions of early religion to modern psychology |
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· There are different kinds of thought |
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| Contributions of early religion to misconceptions of modern psychology |
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· brutal “therapies” (holes in head) |
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| Early philosophy’s views of the mind/body |
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§ Logical, critical thinking= truest knowledge |
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| Plato and his views on madness, the soul, and personality |
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o Madness= conflict between body drives and soul.
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| Platos 3 part dualistic soul |
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o Appetitive part (body desires/drives)—BODY |
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| Aristotle and his views on madness, the soul, and personality |
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Madness= conflict between drives and moral codes. |
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| Who is the father of modern science? |
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| Descartes beleived animals__ |
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| Descartes believes that behavior does not require___ |
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| Descartes believed that the body must control___ |
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| unconscious behavior (reflexes) |
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| Descartes placed the mind where in the body? |
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| what is Interactive Dualism/Cartesian Dualism? |
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o Mind and brain are separate, but influence each other |
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| Are we natural dualists? How do we know? |
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yes because ofo Younger children and the Mr. Alligator and brown mouse story
§ Mouse’s biological processes ceases
§ Mouse’s psychological processes continue
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| Contributions of early philosophy to modern psychology |
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| began to ask questions about the contents and the function of the mind |
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| with contributions to modern psychology we emphazied the need for what? |
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| crital thinking and empricism to determine truth |
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| Contributions of early philosophy to misconceptions of modern psychology |
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· Plato’s madness= body (desires) vs. soul |
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| what is Alcmaeon of Croton |
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§ Helped rid medicine of superstition and magical thinking |
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| Hipporcraties said that if any humor was out of blance then it was a ___ |
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| What was jospeh gall known for? |
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phrenonology (Bumps on head specific for character and personality)
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| what are some Physiological treatments for mental illness during the 1700-1800s |
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| What is charles darwin known for? |
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| Theory of natural selection |
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| What did phillippe Pinel do? |
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| he ran hospitals for the insane |
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| contributions to modern psychology connected metnal health to___ |
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| early scientiest and their methods |
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| contributions to modern psychology divorced mental ilnness adn idenity from what? |
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| contributions to modern psychology connected mental illness and idenity to what? |
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| more observable bioloigcal factors (biological treatments) |
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| Physiological treatments for mental illness during the 1940’s |
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o Alternating jets of hot and cold water |
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| 2 reasons why the mind body debate is so important |
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it drove development in psychology and made people ask important questions (· What is the mind?
· How does it interact with the brain?)
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| What is Hobbes biological instinct? |
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o Biological machinery drives lead to selfishness violence |
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what is Rousseau’s Noble Savage? |
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· Civilization brings greed, anxiety, violence |
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| what is lobes blank slate? |
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| what was Gustav Fechner the founder of? |
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Gustav Fechner documented the realtionship between what? |
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| brain stimulation adn subjectice experience of the mind |
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| Wilhelm Wundt was considered to be the first |
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| Willhelm Wundt is credited as what? |
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| What did Edward Titchner found? |
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| Edward Titchner only used___ |
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| American Father of Psychology |
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| Intropsection and Structuralism |
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| William James focusde on___? |
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| adaptice functions of behaviors |
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| altered the understanding of psychology |
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| Watson adn Kinner believed that the future was not predetermined by the___ |
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| Watson and skinner beleived that behavior product was__ |
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| The views of gestalitists where? |
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· Automatically focus on whole
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| Humanism and Humanistic views |
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o Innate health depends on environmental support of quest for self- improvement |
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| Humanism was not about you or how the Therapist__ |
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| Behaviorist veiws were different from frueds because___ |
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because freud beleived that there was a difference ino Drives vs. Social expectations and behavioriest beleived that behavior was a product of immedaite enviornemnt
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