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Psychology Module 2

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structuralism   Theory that the structure of conscious experience could be understood by analyzing the basic elements of thoughts and sensations  
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Gestalt Psychology   Psychology perspective that emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information onto meaningful words  
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functionalism   Theory that emphasized the functions of consciousness or the ways consciousness helps people adapt to their environment  
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psychoanalysis   Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and action to unconscious motives and conflict  
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behaviorism   The theory that psychology should only study observable behaviors, not mental processes  
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humanistic psychology   Perspective that focuses on the study of conscious experience, the individual's freedom to choose, and the individual's capacity for personal growth  
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Cognitive perspective   School of thought that focuses on how people think- how we take in, process, store and retrieve information  
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Biological perspective   School of thought that focuses on the physical structures and substances underlying a particular behavior, thought, or emotion  
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Social-cultural perspective   School of thought that focuses on how thinking or behavior changes in different contexts or situations  
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social-cultural perspective   School of thought that focuses on how thinking or behavior changes in different contexts or situations  
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behavior genetics   the study of the relative effects of genes and environment on our behavior  
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positive psychology   Movement in psychology that focuses on the study of optimal human functioning and the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive  
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Wilhelm Wundt   founder of modern psychology  
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E.B .Titchener   founder of structuralism  
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William James   First American psychologist and author of the first psychology textbook  
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Sigmund Freud   founder of psychoanalysis  
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Ivan Pavlov   Russian psychologist famous for a learning theory called classical conditioning  
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John B. Watson   Founder of behaviorism, the theory that psychology should restrict its efforts to studying observable behaviors, not mental processes  
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B. F Skinner   Developed the fundamental principles and techniques of operant conditioning and devised ways to apply them in the real world.  
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Abraham Maslow   Humanistic psychologist who proposed the hierarchy of needs, with self-actualization as the ultimate psychological need  
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Carl Rogers   Humanistic psychologist who developed client-centered therapy.  
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Jean Piaget   Pioneer in the study of developmental psychology who introduced a stage theory of cognitive development that let to a better understanding off children's thought processes.  
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Kenneth Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark   Researchers whose work was used in the Brown v Board of Education case that overturned segregation in schools.  
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