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Terms in this set (312)
Psychology the scientific study of mind and behavior
The private inner experience of perceptions,
Mind
thoughts, memories, and feelings.
Observable actions of human beings and nonhuman
Behavior
animals.
How do we perceive the electrical and chemical
activity in our brains as things like thoughts, feelings,
and behavior?
How do our minds respond to, and learn from, the
3 Key Questions in world around us so quickly, and in ways that ensure
Psychology our survival?
What leads the mind to function so ineffectively in
some people, such as in those who experience
hallucinations, dramatic mood swings, or intense
urges to end their own lives?
The philosophical view that certain kinds of
Nativism
knowledge are innate or inborn.
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Does Nativism reflect Nuture
"Nature" or "Nurture"?
When Paul Broca worked with a patient who had
suffered damage to a small part of the left side of the
How did work with brain brain the patient was virtually unable to speak yet was
damaged patients help able to understand everything that was said and
establish a mind- body could communicate using gestures. Broca had the
connection? crucial insight that damage to a specific part of the
brain impaired a specific mental function, clearly
demonstrating that the mind and body are linked.
Who is credited as being Wilhelm Wundt
the founder of psychology
including teaching its first
course and opening its
first lab in 1879?
A person's subjective experience of the world and the
consciousness
mind.
He would train his human participants to respond
How did Wundt study after he applied pressure. He would then use the time
consciousness using of the stimulus to the time reacted as his basis for how
stimuli and reaction time? long nerve impulses took to reach the brain and
respond.
The analysis of the basic elements that constitute the
Structuralism
mind.
Introspection The subjective observation of one's own experience.
What is the problem with People see things differently due to their own
using introspection as a experiences so using this method for research would
research method? pose a problem since there would be no consistency.
The study of how mental processes enable people to
Functionalism
adapt to their environments.
William James ideas on He thought of consciousness like a flowing stream
how consciousness should and to understand it, you needed to understand it in
be studied? its entirety.
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Wundt's ideas on how He thought consciousness could be broken down into
consciousness should be separate elements.
studied?
The features of an organism that help it survive and
Charles Darwin's Theory
reproduce are more likely than other features to be
(Natural Selection)
passed on to subsequent generations.
A temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions,
Hysteria usually as a result of emotionally upsetting
experiences.
The part of the mind that operates outside of
Unconscious conscious awareness but influences conscious
thoughts, feelings, and actions.
An approach that emphasizes the importance of
Freud's Psychoanalytic
unconscious mental processes in shaping feelings,
Theory
thoughts, and behaviors.
A therapeutic approach that focuses on bringing
Psychoanalysis unconscious material into conscious awareness to
better understand psychological disorders.
The Victorian Era thought it was "dirty". Nowadays we
Criticism of Psychoanalysis think its unscientific. People don't like it when You
analyze them.
An approach to understanding human nature that
Humanistic Psychology
emphasizes the positive potential of human beings.
The Founder(s) of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers
Humanistic Psychology
An approach that advocates that psychologists
Behaviorism restrict themselves to the scientific study of
objectively observable behavior.
S-R Psychology A stimulus-response psychology.
What psychologist is John Broadus Watson
associated with
behaviorism?
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Terms in this set (312)
Psychology the scientific study of mind and behavior
The private inner experience of perceptions,
Mind
thoughts, memories, and feelings.
Observable actions of human beings and nonhuman
Behavior
animals.
How do we perceive the electrical and chemical
activity in our brains as things like thoughts, feelings,
and behavior?
How do our minds respond to, and learn from, the
3 Key Questions in world around us so quickly, and in ways that ensure
Psychology our survival?
What leads the mind to function so ineffectively in
some people, such as in those who experience
hallucinations, dramatic mood swings, or intense
urges to end their own lives?
The philosophical view that certain kinds of
Nativism
knowledge are innate or inborn.
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Does Nativism reflect Nuture
"Nature" or "Nurture"?
When Paul Broca worked with a patient who had
suffered damage to a small part of the left side of the
How did work with brain brain the patient was virtually unable to speak yet was
damaged patients help able to understand everything that was said and
establish a mind- body could communicate using gestures. Broca had the
connection? crucial insight that damage to a specific part of the
brain impaired a specific mental function, clearly
demonstrating that the mind and body are linked.
Who is credited as being Wilhelm Wundt
the founder of psychology
including teaching its first
course and opening its
first lab in 1879?
A person's subjective experience of the world and the
consciousness
mind.
He would train his human participants to respond
How did Wundt study after he applied pressure. He would then use the time
consciousness using of the stimulus to the time reacted as his basis for how
stimuli and reaction time? long nerve impulses took to reach the brain and
respond.
The analysis of the basic elements that constitute the
Structuralism
mind.
Introspection The subjective observation of one's own experience.
What is the problem with People see things differently due to their own
using introspection as a experiences so using this method for research would
research method? pose a problem since there would be no consistency.
The study of how mental processes enable people to
Functionalism
adapt to their environments.
William James ideas on He thought of consciousness like a flowing stream
how consciousness should and to understand it, you needed to understand it in
be studied? its entirety.
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Wundt's ideas on how He thought consciousness could be broken down into
consciousness should be separate elements.
studied?
The features of an organism that help it survive and
Charles Darwin's Theory
reproduce are more likely than other features to be
(Natural Selection)
passed on to subsequent generations.
A temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions,
Hysteria usually as a result of emotionally upsetting
experiences.
The part of the mind that operates outside of
Unconscious conscious awareness but influences conscious
thoughts, feelings, and actions.
An approach that emphasizes the importance of
Freud's Psychoanalytic
unconscious mental processes in shaping feelings,
Theory
thoughts, and behaviors.
A therapeutic approach that focuses on bringing
Psychoanalysis unconscious material into conscious awareness to
better understand psychological disorders.
The Victorian Era thought it was "dirty". Nowadays we
Criticism of Psychoanalysis think its unscientific. People don't like it when You
analyze them.
An approach to understanding human nature that
Humanistic Psychology
emphasizes the positive potential of human beings.
The Founder(s) of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers
Humanistic Psychology
An approach that advocates that psychologists
Behaviorism restrict themselves to the scientific study of
objectively observable behavior.
S-R Psychology A stimulus-response psychology.
What psychologist is John Broadus Watson
associated with
behaviorism?
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