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| Mental Process involved in acquiring knowledge. |
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| Psychologists have become increasingly interested in this branch... |
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| cross-cultural psychology. |
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| Examines behavioral processes in terms of adaptive value more members of a species over the course of many generations. |
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| Positive Psychology Movement |
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| Noted that psychology is often focused on negative aspects of human nature and decided to put emphasis on the positive ones. |
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| Who began the positive psychology movement? |
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| 9 major research specialties |
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| Developmental, social, experimental, physiological, cognitive, personality, psychometrics, educational, health |
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| Who is the "father of psychology"? |
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| Analyzed psychology into basic elements and investigated the relations that exist. Relied heavily on introspection |
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| Analyzed psychology into basic elements and investigated the relations that exist. Relied heavily on introspection |
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| based on the belief that psychology should investigate the purpose of conciousness instead of the structure. |
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| First woman president of the APA. Created one of first psych labs. |
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| first woman to receive a phd in psychology. Wrote "THE ANIMAL MIND" and then served as president of the APA |
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| Psychologist who studied gender differences, but primarily noted for her work concerning mental retardation, and the development of youth. |
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| Founder of behaviorism. Wanted to study only behaviors that could be directly observed. |
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| Behaviorist. Suggested free will was an illusion. Contributed greatly to the behaviorist movement. (Pigeon pinpong experiment.) |
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| 2 Humanistic Psychologists |
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| 3 cognitive psychologists |
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| Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky, Herbert Simon |
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| 4 Biological Psychologists |
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| James Olds, Roger Sperry, David Hubel, Torsten Wiesel |
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| 5 Evolutionary Psychologists |
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| David Buss, Martin Daly, Margo Wilson, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby |
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| Concerned with every day, practical problems. |
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| Tendency to view ones own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways. |
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| Who is responsible for split brain studies? |
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| Stanely Hall is responsible for (...3) |
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| creating Americas first Psychological Journal, making the first psychology lab, being the driving force behind the APA |
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| James was a...functionalist or structuralist? |
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