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| First lab, father of psychology, Leipzig Germany 1879 |
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| Brought Wundt's ideas to US, structuralism |
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| Functionalism, educational and industrial psychology |
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| "Whole is greater than the sum of it's parts", Gestalt Psychology |
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| Psychoanalytic perspective and psychoanalysis, first talking therapy |
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| Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow |
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| Central figures in the development of humanism |
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| Objected strongly to the study of the "mind" or "conscious experience" or introspection (also unconscious), behaviorism |
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| Ivan Pavlov and B. F. Skinner |
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| Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis |
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| Concerned with analyzing sensations and personal experience into basic elements |
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| Concerned with how behavior and mental abilities help people adapt to their environments |
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| A Freudian approach to the psychotherapy emphasizing the exploration of unconscious conflicts |
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| Any theory of behavior that emphasizes internal conflicts motives, and unconscious forces |
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| Focuses on human experience, problems, potentials, and ideals. Free will |
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| idea that all behavior has prior causes that would completely explain one's choices and actions if all such causes were known |
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| Idea that human beings are capable of freely making choices or decisions |
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| Emphasizes the study of overt, observable behavior |
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| observed the relationship between stimuli and an animals responses |
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| Mental events, such as thinking, are not needed to explain behavior |
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| Focuses on thought, perception, and information processing. Study how we gather, encode, and store information from our environment using a vast array of mental processes including perception, memory, imagery, concept formation, problem solving, reasoning, decision making, and language |
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| explain behavior in terms of underlying biological principles |
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| Description, understanding, prediction, control |
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| in nucleus of each cell made up of DNA |
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| specific areas on a strand of DNA that carry hereditary information |
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| receive incoming messages |
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| main body of neuron or other cell |
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| carries information away from cell body |
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| Communication with neurons is electrical |
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| Communication with neurons is chemical |
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| linking spinal cord with body and sense organs |
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| carries information to and from the internal organs and glands |
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| Outer layer of the cerebrum |
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| movement, sense of self, and higher mental functions, front of brain |
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| top of brain where body sensations register |
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| Sides of brain where hearing registers |
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