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| Explain five of the basic tenets of Humanistic Psychology |
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Subjective reality guides human behavior: Personal reality guides us
Studying non-human animals irrelevant to understanding humans: Animals are not humans and therefore do not act like us
Studying individuals more informative than group differences: Singular understanding helps predict larger behaviors
Psychology should enrich human experiences
Psychology should solve human problems: Solving human problems serves the greater good |
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| Name one humanistic psychologist and explain an idea he proposed that was influenced by humanistic psychology principles. |
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Maslow
Physiological- Food
Safety-Shelter
Social- Family
Esteem- Wants
Self Actualization- Reaching ones full human potential |
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| three reasons Behaviorism gave way to Cognitive Psychology as the dominant school in experimental psychology |
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The Misbehavior of Organisms
Chomsky’s review of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior
Garcia’s one-trial learning |
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| Describe three assumptions made by cognitive psychologists. |
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Mental processes exist
People actively process information: as seen in the models of processing information
Mental processes can be measured using: Reaction time (RT) or Accuracy |
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| Chomsky’s review of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior |
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Is language learned?
Is language innate?
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously |
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| Garcia’s one-trial learning |
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Does the type of conditioned stimulus matter?
Rats only associated taste with nausea
The CS-UCS association was not immediate |
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| The Misbehavior of Organisms |
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Not all animals are created equally
Instincts disrupt learning
I rather rub my junk together than get rewarded |
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| Name three Gestalt psychologists |
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Insightful learning, from studying Apes
The idea that learning occurs through cognitive trial and error.
Meaning mentally test out solutions, and only perform the action once correct one selected
Operational-ism
Argued that tying our theories to operational definitions
Can’t have an abstract concept attached to an operational definitions is limiting |
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Founded Gestalt,
Evidence against Wundt and Titchner arguing against the molecular approach
Observer sensation interactions: interested in overall interaction, not observer or sensation
phi phenomena, caused by discrete sensation
perceived motion when stimuli change within a specific time frame |
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Wrote: Perception an intro to Gestalt Theory
responsible for the us belief gestalts were only into percetpion |
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| Name three pioneers in the treatment of mental illness |
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the cure and release method
treat mental ill like humans and they will get better
good treatment lead to a cure
Mental illness was caused biological factors, brain disease and nervous system |
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pursued better treatment of paitents
not limited to criminals or mentally ill or mental retardation
confronted institutions up right |
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An american version of Pinel
Believed there was an organic or nervous system disorder for mental illness
stopped public displays of mentally ill |
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repression: mind cannot deal with a traumatic experience, so it is blocked
The unconscious: lack of awareness or consciousness of motives
Seduction Theory: all hysteria is due to sexual conflict, such a a childhood trauma. can be imagined |
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| The Interpretation of Dreams |
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Dreams have two componenets
manifest content:literal content
latent content: unconscious motives
wish fulfillment: satisfying unconscious desires, the id manifests images of things that will satisfy our needs
dream work: this explains the difference between manifest and latent, making the meaning more tolerable to the dreamer |
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| Describe three contributions that Freud made to psychology. |
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Narrowed down the focus of the Unconscious: made previous known elements into a unified theory of personality
Psychoanalysis- changed therapy, creating a new method. still used.
Social Influence- examined actual human nature, everyday life, and normal behavior |
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| Describe three criticisms of Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis. |
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METHOD OF DATA collection: only looked at patients, no experimentation
no operational definitions of terms used, like penis envy or complex, can’t test. Falsifiability
dogmatic: would tolerate any theories or ideas that contradicted his ideas. |
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