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Intro to Psyc-Sophia
Sophia Course Unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| studies how individuals grow over the course of their lives | Developmental |
| Focus on facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning across the life span | Counseling |
| Health | |
| Attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits--such as memory, perception, or language--as adaptations; natural selection. | Evolutionary |
| Developed the idea about the "unconscious mind", psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud |
| People that accept much of Freud's theories/ideas, but place more emphasis on interpersonal relationships: Adler, Jung, Horney | Neo-Freudians |
| School of psychology, founded by Freud, that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as determinate of human behavior | Psychoanalysis |
| the scientific study of the mind and behavior | Psychology |
| the examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings | Introspection |
| Behaviorism Founder | John Watson |
| Structuralism Founder | Wilhelm Wundt |
| Contributor to Cognitive psychology, schema | Jean Piaget |
| Gestalt | Max Wertheimer |
| Founder of Operant Conditioning | B.F. Skinner |
| The idea that behavior can be influenced by reinforcements and punishments. developed by BF Skinner | Operant Conditioning |
| A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; Developed by Ivan Pavlov, Watson worked with as well. | Classical Conditioning |
| Information acquired by direct observation or measurement, such as lab work, testing, etc; use of the senses to collect data (see, hear, touch, etc.) | Empirical Evidence |
| Thoughts are a steady stream; William James; school of psychology that emphasizes the purposes of behavior and mental processes. | Functionalism |
| A theory that believes mental phenomena can be broken down into basic parts; Founded by Wilhelm Wundt; "building blocks" Edward Titchener | Structuralism |
| Psychologists that believe what is going on in someone's head is irrelevant to psychology, and should not be studied | Radical Behaviorist |
| Gestalt | |
| complex patterns arise from relatively simple rules (like checkers, rules are simple, game is more complex) | Emergence |
| a person can construct more meaning out of something than what they are actually seeing (see an image that isn't drawn on the page). | Reification |
| ambiguous stimuli or experiences can vary between two different interpretations (ink blot test). | Multi-stability |
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