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Psychology Exam 1

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Psychology needs…curiosity, skepticism, humility; the scientific study of the human mind and behavior; Focuses on cognition, biology and experience, culture and gender, and human flourishing
Aristotle starting to ask questions about learning, memory, feelings, and emotions, personality, and perception
Wilhelm Wundt established psychology’s first lab; studied the atoms of the mind, interested in the fast, simple mind processes; dropped a ball and measured how long for people to respond by pressing key
Mary Whiton Calkins psychology's first woman; first female president of the American Psychological Association
Structuralism people looking inward and describing their emotions; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind
Functionalism how people are able to adapt, survive, and flourish; how mental and bahaviorial processes function; influenced by Darwin
Wundt and Titchener promoted the thoughts of structuralism
john B Watson Little Albert experiment: showed that fear can be learned
B.F Skinner and Rayner leading behaviorist who rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior; Skinner's Box
Sigmund Freud he proposed psychoanalytic theory; unconscious mind and childhood experiences impact behavior
Behaviorism the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes
Rogers and Maslow focused on the human growth potential and the need for love, acceptance and how the environments nurture or limit personal growth (humanistic psychology)
cognitive psychology study of mental processes
cognitive neuroscience interdisciplinary study of brain activity linked with cognitio
evolutionary psychology how behavior and mind have changed in adaptive ways over time due to natural selection; includes genetics as a factor
positive psychology developing of emotions and traits and how they help us thrive; study of human flourishing
Biopsychosocial approach Integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis
Neuroscience How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experience; Biological; cognitive; clinical subfields
Evolutionary How the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of genes; Biological; developmental; social
Behavior genetics How our genes and our environment influence our individual differences; Personality; developmental; legal/ forensic
Psychodynamic How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflict; Clinical; counseling; personality
Behavioral How we learn observable responses; Clinical; counseling; industrial-organizational; applied behavioral analys
Cognitive How we encode process, store, and retrieve information; Cognitive neuroscience; clinical; counseling; industrial organization
Social-cultural How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures; Developmental; social; clinical; counseling
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