Psychology - definitions, basics and history
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| show | The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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| show | Erroneous assertions or practices set forth as being scientific psychology
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| show | Psychologists who use the knowledge developed by experimental psychologists to solve human problems
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| show | A medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
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| show | A historical school of psychology devoted to uncovering the basic structures that make up mind and thought. Structuralists sought the "elements" of conscious experience
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| show | A historical school of psychology that sought to understand how the brain works by studying perception and perceptual learning. Gestalt psychologists believed that percepts consist of meaningful wholes (auch Deutch, Gestalts).
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| show | A historical school (as well as a modern perspective) that has sought to make psychology and objective science focused only on behavior-to the exclusion of mental processes.
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| show | An interdisciplinary field emphasizing brain activity as information processing; involves cognitive psychology, neurology, biology, computer science, linguistics, and specialists from other fields whoare interested in the connection between mental process
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| show | The psychological perspective emphasizing mental health and mental illness. Psychodynamic and humanistic psychology are variations on the clinical view.
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| show | A clinical viewpoint emphasizing the understanding of mental disorders in terms of unconscious needs, desires, memories and conflicts.
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| show | A clinical viewpoint emphasizing human ability, growth, potential and free will.
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| show | A psychological perspective that views behavior and personality as the products of enduring psychological characteristics.
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| show | 1596-1650; discovered sensation, behaviors link
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| show | 1832-1929; 1st person to declare himself a psychologist; structuralism.
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| show | 1842-1910; 1st United States psychologist; looked at functions - why we do what we do; 1st text book on psychology
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| show | Behaviorism (only observable things)
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