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| The science of behavior and mental processes |
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| Who is the Father of modern Psychology? |
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| Who is the father of American psychology? |
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| What is cognitive psychology? |
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| Involves mental processes, problem solving, and memory |
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| What is biological psychology? |
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| Genetics, immune system, & the relationship between the brain and the nervous system |
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| What is experimental psychology? |
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| What is social psychology? |
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| How people are affected by their social environments |
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| What is developmental psychology? |
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| Changes that occur at different ages and stages in life |
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| What is the difference between sympathy and empathy? |
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Sympathy = Acknowledgment of another's painful feelings.
Empathy = Mutual feelings of pain between people.
Basically, empathy means understanding, and sympathy lacks understanding. |
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| What was Frued's take on human behavior? |
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| Humans behavior is motivated by unconscious conflicts that were almost always sexual or aggressive in nature. |
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| Developmental psychology. |
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| The idea that psychology should be limited to observable behaviors. |
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| What theory did Pavlov develop? |
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| Behaviorism with animals and children |
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| What is Howard Gardener best known for? |
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| His theory of multiple intelligences |
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| What the nine intelligences? |
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| Bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, logical-mathematical, naturalistic, spiritual, verbal-linguistic (language), and visual-spatial |
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| What is Maslow known for? |
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| His conceptualization of a "hierarchy of human needs |
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| What is the hierarchy of human needs? |
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| Basic needs, safety, love/belonging, esteem, aesthetic, self-actualization |
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