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Sophia Course Unit 1

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