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| The scientific study of mind and behavior |
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| What are the goals of Psychology? |
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| Describe, predict, understand, and achieve influence over behavior. |
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| A systemic explanation of a phenomenon. It Distills and organizes the facts into a few short principles. |
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-Made from theories
-Specific predictions which are testable. |
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| What are the 3 fields of psychology? |
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| What is Developmental Psychology? |
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| Womb to tomb approach. Looks at changes in cognition, personality, and their affect over age and timetime. |
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| What is Cognitive Psychology? |
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| Concerned with how humans process, store, and use information. Looks at how humans process, store, and use information. |
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| What branch of psychology is a neuro-psychologist? |
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| Physiological psychologist |
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| What is nativism and how does it apply to psychology? |
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| Nativism believes there are some sorts of knowledge that are innate. Gestalt psychology believes that we are born with a certain fixed way of viewing the world. |
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| Who was the founder of Modern Psychology? |
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An early school of psychology where they tried to understand the mind by breaking it down into basic parts.
Downside: It's not easy to look into the mind. |
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| Who was the first President of the APA? |
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| An early school of psychology. William James and others believed in order to understand the mind we must first find out why we do what we do. Find the function and purpose first. |
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| What were some criticisms of Functionalism? |
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| Very subjective and unable to be replicated. |
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| Believed that the only proper subject matter of psychology is observable behavior rather than immediate conscious experience. |
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| What are some enduring issues in psychology? |
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* Person vs. Situation (Nature vs. Nurture)
* Heredity vs. Environment
* Stability vs. Change
* Diversity (Experiments)
* Mind vs. Body |
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| What do biopsychologists do? |
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| They study the inheritable traits of behavior and the structures of the body responsible for them. |
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| What is Experimental Psychology? |
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| They focus on basic metal processes and methodology used to study: learning, sensation, perception, cognition, motivation, etc... |
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| What would a Personality Psychologist do? |
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| Study the individual differences between people such as temperament, personality traits, etc... |
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| What do Clinical and Counseling Psychologists do? |
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* Clinical psychologists are interested primarily in the diagnosis, cause, and treatment of psychological disorders.
* Counseling psychologists are concerned primarily with "normal" problems of adjustments in life. |
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| What do Social Psychologists do? |
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* Social psychologists study how people influence one another.
* Group versus individual behavior
* Focus on issues of power, stereotypes, attitudes and coercion |
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| What do Industrial and Organizational Psychologists do? |
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| They apply psychology to the workplace. Better training methods, etc... |
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| What are some criticisms of Behaviorism? |
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| Doesn't account for altruism and why people repeat mistakes. |
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