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Psychology Unit 1 Test
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Psychology
12th Grade
09/14/2010

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Socrates
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mind and body separate, knowledge built within, principles/ logics= basics of beliefs
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Plato
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student of Socrates, held same ideas as Socrates
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Aristotle
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conclusions based on data and observation, knowledge comes from experience, mind and body connected
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Francis Bacon
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One of the founders of modern science, centers on experimentation and observation... scientific method
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John Locke
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essay concerning human understanding, tabula rasa and with experience writing is added
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Joseph Gall
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localized functions of the brain
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Wilhelm Wundt
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Founder of psychological science, University of Lipzeig, Timing of awareness of sound, measure the atoms of the mind
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E.B. Titchener
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student of Wundt, structuralism, introspection, faults with Wundt were that his practices were inconsistent and unreliable
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William Jones
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studied functions of thoughts and feelings, experimental psych flourishes, influenced by evolutionist Charles Darwin
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Sigmund Freud
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obscure neurologist, listened to patients, felt problems were mental, rooted in childhood trauma
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Jean-Martin Charcot
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believed problems were rooted in the brain due to the biology of the brain
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Carl Jung
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practiced psychodynamic perspective
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Erik Erikson
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practiced psychodynamic perspective
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John Watson
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practiced behaviorist perspective
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B.F. Skinner
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practiced behaviorist perspective
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Ivan Pavlov
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practiced behaviorist perspective
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Aaron Beck
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practiced cognitive perspective
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Albert Ellis
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practiced cognitive perspective
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Carl Rodgers
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practiced humanist perspective
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Structuralism
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an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind.
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Introspection
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deals with how we perceive things and how we think and feel (ex: Wilhelm Wundt's experiments dealing with how and when the brain received a sound)
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Functionalism
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a school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function
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Psychoanalysis
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a broad theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy
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Humors
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there are four different fluids in your body called humors and any change from equality could effect your personality
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Phrenology
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the brain is divided into certain sections and depending on bumps on your head you could have an increase in that certain area of emotion
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Psychic Determinism
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causes of behavior found in the mind are innate, biologically based
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Id
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operates according to pleasure principle
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Ego
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operates according to reality principle
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Superego
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moral ideas, conscience
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Projective Tests (ex: Rorshach)
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depending on what you saw or drew projected how you felt in your subconscious
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Free Association
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the process of saying freely whatever comes to mind in connection with dreams, memories, fantasies, or conflicts
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Dream Analysis
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where dreams have mean (when Id has free reign)
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Hynosis
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an intense focus in which the person is vulnerable to suggestion
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Insight
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a moment of awareness of the problem "a-ha" moment
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Catharsis
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an emotional release association of traumatic memories or repressed impulses
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Transference
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unconscious feeling of love or hate projected onto the analyst
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Tabula Rasa
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blank slate: idea that people are born into the world with no preconceptions (nurture!)
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Reinforcement
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Positive: good grades and monetary reward
Negative: parents quite nagging, fear of failure gone
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Punishment
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Positive: friends call you a nerd
Negative: time with friends is limited
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Little Albert Experiments
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To prove tabula rasa and fears are from nurturing, a baby was faced with scary things and showed no reaction of fear
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Systematic Desnsitization
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step by step removing the fear of the affected. teaching the client to associate relaxation with object instead of anxiety
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Flooding
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expose client to most feared situation and help the deal with anxiety
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Modeling
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learn by watching someone else
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Shaping
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step by step reinforcement to mold into desired behavior
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Aversion Therapy
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removing a behavior by pairing it with an unwanted simulation
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Token Economy
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desired behaviors are rewarded with tokens which may be exchanged for a reward
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Cognitive Therapy
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a form of therapy designed to identify and change irrational thinking to reduce negative emotions
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Unconditional Positive Regard
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never accusing or looking down on, client and therapist are on equal grounds and accept each other, must have for humanist therapy
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Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
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challenges unrealistic middle thought that effects the reaction to an event
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Empathy
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the ability to put one's self in another place
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Reflective Listening
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mirroring clients thoughts and feelings
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Basic Psychology
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Applied Pyschology
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Types of Psychologists
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psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, psychologist
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Psychotherapist
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needs no training
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Psychoanalyst
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(MD or PhD) psychoanalysis only
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Psychiatrist
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(MD) diagnose/treat mental disorders
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Antipsychotic Drug
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prescribed for: schizophrenia, other psychoses, Impulsive Anger, Bipolar Disorder
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Antidepressant Drugs
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prescribed for: depression, anxiety disorder, panic disorder, OCD
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Tranquilizers
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mood disorder, panic disorder
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Lithium Carbonate
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bipolar disorder
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Cautions of Drug Treatments
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relapse, placebo effect, dosage problems, addiction/long-term risk
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Psychosurgery
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destroy surgically the areas of the brain responsible for disorders
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ECT
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given to severe depression when no other treatments work, can damage brain, and usually short-lived cure
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TMS
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magnetic pulses through prefrontal cortex (older technique than ECT)
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Prefrontal Lobotomy
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go through eye socket and rewire the prefrontal cortex (used surgical instrument:ice pick)
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Humanist Therapy
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creative expression and achieve full potential
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Existential Therapy
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discussion and acceptance of philosophical topics such as meaning of life and death
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Family-systems Perspective
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Where the family is used to discover the core of problem
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When Therapy helps
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keeps from relapse longer, also keeps from an addiction to drugs, more effective
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When therapy harms...
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use of unsupported unempirically supported techniques, inappropriate influence, prejudice, sexual intamacies
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Epriricism
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the view that a) knowledge comes from experience, and b) science flourishes through observation and experimentation.
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Integrative Approach
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Nature vs. Nurture
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the argument on whether reactions are pre-programmed or learned
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