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What is psychology the scientific study of mind and behavior What was the cognitive revolution understanding how people think, how knowledge is acquired, structured, stored and used What was the biological revolution approaches the understanding of behavior by studying anatomy, physiology, and ph...

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What is psychology ✅the scientific study of mind and behavior

What was the cognitive revolution ✅understanding how people think, how knowledge
is acquired, structured, stored and used

What was the biological revolution ✅approaches the understanding of behavior by
studying anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology

What is evolutionary psychology ✅explain behavior int arms of adaptation to changing
environment

What is behavioral genetics ✅examines the influence of genes in determining behavior
and psychological characteristics

What are dispositional factors ✅-internal
-genetic makeup, personality traits, attitudes and mental state

What are situational factors ✅-outside environment
-sensory stimulation, rewards, actions of others

What is the micro level of analysis ✅studying the detailed processes of behavior

What is the molecular level of analysis ✅-larger unit of observable behavior

What is the molar level of analysis ✅-large units of behavior of whole person in a
complex situation

IAT (implicit association test) ✅measures strength of association between two
concepts as an indirect measure of unconscious beliefs

What did we get from observing people at the mental hospital in Paris ✅-some
behavior may actually be a result of inner feelings, unconscious

What does freud develop as a result ✅psychoanalysis

What is animism ✅-the belief that inanimate objects have feelings too
--trees grow, theres an explanation that something what moving it

, Physiology and medicine focuses on the two studies of what ✅the body and the brain

Plato's approach to philosophy ✅-nativist
-the realm we live on was physical world but there was a non physical world made up of
math forms and truth
-our souls have been deceived by our senses

Plato believed in rationalism, what is rationalism ✅-if you wanted to get to truth you
needed to us logic, don't trust your senses

Deductive reasoning ✅if our premise is true and argument is valid, then the conclusion
HAS to be true

Aristotle's approach to philosophy ✅-empiricist
-believed reality was all on a physical plain
-believed in a super sense where they all come together

What is philosophical empiricism ✅we get the truth through senses and experience

What is methodological empiricism ✅we test things and run experiments and get
objective data

George miller and uric neisser ✅cognitive psychology

John watson and bf skinner ✅behaviorism

Freud ✅psychoanalytic

Carl rogers ✅humanistic

Max wertheimer and Wolfgang kohler ✅gestalt

Structualism ✅an experience can be analyzed by looking at the individual pieces that
make it up

Gestalt ✅experiences should not be broken down into their constituent parts

Cognitive ✅behavior is influenced by people's intelligence, memory, and thoughts

Functionalism ✅we have to understand how the mind has adapted to perform certain
tasks that allow us to survive

Psychoanalytic ✅behavior is influenced by conflicts in the unconscious mind

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