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PSY-Chapter 1
Coastal Carolina Community College
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
05/21/2012

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Define Psychology?
Definition
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
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Behavior refers to your?
Definition
Actions
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Mental Processes refer to?
Definition
Your thinking, Internally
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What are the 4 Steps of the Scientific Method?
Definition

1. Description 

2. Explanation

3. Prediction  

4.Control       

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Who was William Wundt?
Definition
A physiologist, involved in structuralism; focused ont the structure or basic elements of the mind;
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What famous quote is associated with William Wertheimer?
Definition
"The whole is greater from the sum of its parts.."
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Who is the father of American Psychology?
Definition
William James
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B.F. Skinner studied what?
Definition
Operant Conditioning of voluntary behavior.
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What are the 7 Modern Perspectives?
Definition

1. Psychodynamic

2. Behavioral

3. Humanistic

4. Biopsychological

5. Cognitive

6. Sociocultural

7. Evolutionary

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Functionalism?
Definition
How the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play.
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Who is associated with Gestalt Psychology?
Definition
Max Wertheimer
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Gestalt Psychology focused on?
Definition
Sensations and Perceptions (influenced by Charles Darwin)
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What is Sigmund Freud associated with?
Definition
Psychoanalysis
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