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Psych - history
Exam One!
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| psychology | the scientific study of behavior |
| psychologist | Ph.D. = counseling |
| psychiatrist | M.D. = clinics |
| William Wundt | Structuralist = first psychologist |
| what did Wundt want to do? | map the parts of the brain by using 'introspection' |
| William James | functionalist |
| what did James do? | invented 'stream of consciousness' |
| gestalt | a group of Germans who believed 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts' |
| freud | psychoanalyses therapy = one of the first to try to help people |
| psychoanalytic theory (iceburg theory) | conscious, preconscious, unconscious |
| psychoanalytic theory (personality) | id, ego, superego |
| behaviorism | watson, pavlov, and skinner |
| humanistic | carl rogers, abraham maslow |
| what did carl rogers do? | client centered |
| what is humanistic? | believe humans are mostly good |
| what did maslow do? | heirarchy of needs |
| cognitive psychology | the study of thoughts, languages, biases (what is being studied most today) |
| biological psychology | study of genes, brain chemistry |
| cultural psychology | study of social, environment, society |
| eclectic psychology | take the best of all and pick what they believe most |
| who wanted to study the functions of the brain? | William James |
| In order from bottom to top, what is Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs? | physiological, safety, belonging, self-esteem, self-actualization |
| eclectic = | different, distinctive |
| Five types of research methods | naturalistic observation, case study, correlation method, surveys, and experimental |
| independent variable | something the scientist manipulates (changes) |
| dependent variable | the outcome of the experiment (the data) |
| subject variable | something about the subjects that might influence the DV (gender, age, etc.--cannot be manipulated) |
| control group | get nothing (like the placebo effect) |
| behaviorism | believed that the only things psychologists should study were things we could see. |
| which group of scientists were the first to do animal research? | the behaviorists |
| what is the 'sleeper effect'? | It is a type of persuasion: a movie might talk themselves up, which I would probably not believe, but after a while, the 'sleeper effect' says that I will forget who told me that and just remember what was said, which would make me want to go see theshow |
| what is the Availability Heuristic? | the tendency to estimate the likelihood of events based on the availability of the event in memory |
| what is the Id? | known as 'the little kid in you' everything that you want to do... all pleasure |
| what is the Superego? | All of the good in you... all of your morals, what you Should do |
| What is the Ego? | the realist of the three. tries to balance your id with your superego to find a happy medium. |
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