Psychology Chapter 1

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Chapter 1


 
  
Created Jun 23, 2009
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Def of Psychology
 
The science of behavior and mental processes
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Def of Behavior
 
Directly observable and measurable actions
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Def of Science
 
Approach to knowledge based on systematic observation, careful, controlled replicable, method...
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Def of Mental Process
 
Private psychological activities that include thinking, perceiving, and feeling
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What are the 4 goals of Psychology?
 
Describe, Predict, Understand (Explain), and Influence (Control)
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Where, when, and who by was the first laboratory of Psy. established?
 
Leipzig,Germany1879Wundt
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Def of Structuralism
 
Break down experiences and structure of conscious mind through introspection (looking at  ones...
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J Henry Alston
 
Different hot and cold censors, you feel extreme heat if touching both hot and cold censorsFirst...
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Titchener
 
Taught by Wundt and went to US to teach at Cornell
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Wertheimer
 
Gestalt (whole)Gestalt Psychology - consciousness can't be broken down into elementsPhu Phenomenon...
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James
 
1875 taught first psy. class at HarvardFunctionalism (comes from Darwinism) - useful functions...
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Ebbinghaus
 
Forgetting studyUsed nonmeaning syllablesUsed Rigulous, Scientific Methods
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Whiton Calkins
 
Memory for related informationPair Associate Learning
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Cognitive Psy and Cognition
 
Cognition (Thinking)Cognitive Psy- Basically Functionalism and emphasizes the importance of...
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Binet
 
Psychometrics: Measurable IntelligenceStudied children's intelligenceUS Stanford-Binet's Intelligence...

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