gen. psych.
Terms
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- def. of psychology
- the systematic study of the human and animal behavior and mental processes
- origins of psychology
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pavlov- laboratory tradition
freud- clinical tradition - ways of knowing
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Tradtion
Authority
Logic/ scientific methods
Personal experience
Supernatural - research methods
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Case study
Correlation
Survey/ questionarre
Scientific method
Longitudinal
Laboritory
naturalistic observation
natural experiment
Family kinship - case study
- in depth study of one person
- correlation
- patterns/ things working together
- longitudinal
- long experiment ie: life study
- Laboratory
- experiments including experimental and control groups
- naturalistic observation
- observing in a natural setting
- natural experimant
- experimant that can not be caused to happen ie:tornado
- Family and kinship
- studies genogrmas to study personality charicteristics, intellegence, and chances of mental illnesses
- Scientific method
- observational info. leads to theory, which leads to hypothesis
- confunding variable
- variable that comes into play unplanned
- self fullfilling prophecy
- expectations elicit behavios in others that confirm those expectations
- placebo effect
- "if a person thinks that a medicine will work , there body will react in a posotive way
- double blind study
- person being studied doesnt realize they are being studied
- Ethics in research
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protected from harm
confidentiality
minimal deception
debriefing - debriefing
- explanation of any deception used during experience
- Structuralism psychologist
- Wilhelm Wundt (emergence of psychology)
- functionalism psychologist
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WIlliam james
John dewey - Behaviorism psychologists
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john watson
BF skinner - posotive reinforcement
- giving individual something desirable in excange for certain beavior
- negative reinforcement
- someting unpleasant happens in excange for certain beavior
- extinction of behavior
- happens when posotive and negative enforcement is not given on a regular schedule
- social learning theory
- babies learn by how they are conditioned by observation
- cognition
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psychological term for thinking
stimulus --> cognition --> responce - Functionlism
- studies not only contence but functions of mind
- Psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic psycologists
- sigmund frued
- Psychoanalytic/ psycodynamic
- believes that all behavior is regulated by unconciuos forces
- Ice berg theory
- created by freud. All things truly significant in psycodynamic theory lies below concious awareness.
- parts of personality (to freud)
- ID, EGO, and SUPER EGO
- ID
- present with birth, behavior is based on self gratification
- EGO
- develops with growth, sense of "I am" based on reality
- super EGO
- "concience" development of a sence of rigt and wrong taught by culture and enviornment
- concience
- everything we are aware of at any given time
- preconcious
- thoughts, facts and memories tat can easily be brought to te concious level
- unconsous
- thoughts and feeling that are extremely hard to brng to awareness.
- anxiety defence mechanisms
- moral, neurotic, reality
- moral anxiety defence mechanism
- concern that behavior and standards aren't matching
- neurotic ADM
- worry about things that shouldn't be worried about
- reality ADM
- normal anxiety based on reality
- Defense mechanisms
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Denial
Displacement
Rationalization
reaction formation
projection
compensation
sublimation