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Psychology
Exploring Psychology David Myers
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
02/07/2010

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How did psychology begin?
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As the science of mental life.
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Introspection
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Wund's basic research tool - self examination of one's own emotional states and mental impressons
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Freud's emphasis
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Was on the ways emotional responses to childhood experiences and our unconscious thought affect behavior.
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In the 1920's how was psychology defined
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As the science of mental life
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From the 1920's to the 1960s how was psychology defined?
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Watson and Skinner redefined it as the study of observable behavior.
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What did Maslow and Carol Rogers focus on?
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They emphasized the importance of current environmental influences and meeting our needs for love and acceptance.
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Today how is psychology defined?
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As the science of behavior and mental processes.
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Behavior
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Anything an organism does
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Mental processes
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The internal experiences we infer from behavior like dreams, thoughts, feelings.
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