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Introductory Psychology
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/13/2010

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Hindsight Bias
Definition
after learning some outcome, we tend to believe we would have known it beforehand
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Overconfidence
Definition
the tendency to predict that we will know more than we actually do 
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Psychology's four goals
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1. Description

2. Explanation

3. Prediction

4. Control

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Psychoanalysis
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Began with Sigmund Freud

"insight" therapy for fear and anxiety

*repression, unconscious motivations

*it is untestable

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Behaviorism
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aka Learning

Believed all behavior is learned from experience

Tabula Rasa

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Gestalt Psychology
Definition

means "good figure"

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

 

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Nature-Nurture
Definition
debate over the power of genes vs. experience on the development of psychological traits and behaviors
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Evolutionary Psychology
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focuses on the genetic and biological bases of universal mental characteristics shared by all humans
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Humanistic Psychology
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believes people have the free will to consciously choose their own destiny and the potential of self-actualization
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Cognitive Psychology
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studies the mental processes of memory, intelligence, perception, problem solving, language, and learning
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