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Psychology Exam 1

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What is the definition of psychology? Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Why do we study psychology? to better understand, explain and facilitate human conflict
how is psychology a science? Uses the scientific meath of inquiry to research human research
What is a discipline? A field of study
What roots did psychology come from? philosophy and physiology
What are the three paradigm shifts? mind, behavior, cognition
Who started the study of psychology? William Wundt
When did psychology begin? 1879
What are the major subfields of APA? developmental, physiological, experimental, personality, clinical and counseling, social, industrial and organization
What is developmental subfield? human growth/change
What is physiological subfield? biological basis of human action
what is experimental subfield? basic physiological processes
What is personality subfield? differences among individuals
What is clinical and counseling subfield? diagnoses, treatment and adjustment issues
What is industrial and organizational subfield? applies psychology to the work place
What is a Zeitgeist study of the times
What are the five enduring issues? nature-nuture person-situation stability-change diversity-universality mind-body
What were the early schools of thought? voluntarism structuralism functionalsim
What is voluntarism? Selective attention
What is structuralism? basic structures of thought
What is functionalism? purpose of thought
What are the 7 grand theories? psychodynamic behaviorism cognitive humanistic biological evolutionary socio-cultural
What does PW-SB mean? Pavlov Watson Skinner Bandura
What is psychodynamic psychology? Unconscious, anxiety, inner drives/conflicts
What did sigmund Freud do? Modern psychology, psychodynamic psychology, motivated by unconscious behavior
What is free association? where you recount your dreams, and say whatever comes to your mind
what is behaviorism? acquire behaviors from experience in role of environment
what is cognitive perspective? mental processes
what is humanistic perspective? self, and perception of experience, free to choose
What is biological perspective? role of biology...brain and nervous system, hormones and genes
what is evolutionary perspective? adaptive problems, social behavior
what is sociocultural perspective? cultural practices
What did Ivan Pavlov do? conditioning
What did John B Watson do? observable behavior
What did B.F Skinner do? Reinforcement
What is positive psychology? positive experiences, happiness
Why was there a lack of diversity in beginning of psychology? the 1900s was dominated by white American men
What is gender? psychologically and biologically being male or female
what is gendersterotyping? saying women or men are better or worse and something or saying what makes a real man or woman
What is race based on? physical
What is ethnicity based on? common cultural heratidge
What is individualistic cultures? value independence and personal achievements
what is collectivist cultures? value the group and interdependence
Who was William Wundt? created first lab in 1879 and believed in voluntarism and selective attention
Who was G. stanely hall? brought first lab to the U.S
Who was Edward Titchner? believed in Structuralism sentations, feelings, images
Who was William James? believed in functionalism "Stream of Consciousness" how we use perceptual abilities consciousness
What is introspection? All self discovery
What is experimental research? cause and effect
What is an example of experimental research? investigator manipulates some variable and measure the affects on behavior
What is a variable? anything that varies
What is correlational research? relationships between variables
What is an example of correlational research? investigator examines relationship between two or more variables
What is descriptive research? What is it
What is an example of descriptive research? research conducted to describe trends, behaviors, or attitudes
What is the difference between experimental and control group? the experimental group get the treatment or independent variable and the control group does not
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