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Study for Psy 1010 exam 1 USU|Questions with Answers
What is psychology? - -The scientific study of thought and behavior
- What is Empiricism? - -Knowledge and thought that come from experience.
- What is pseudoscience? - -Practices that claim to be science but don't use
the scientific method.
- John Locke - -British philosopher, Proponent of empirical thinking
- Emil Kraepelin - -Classification system for mental disorders ,Made
distinctions between schizophrenia and other mental disorders
- Wilhelm Wundt - -Father of experimental psychology, Opened first
experimental psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879
- William James - -"the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first
I ever gave" taught at Harvard, Considered the founder of American
psychology
- G. Stanley Hall (Hall of Fame) - -First American to earn Ph.D. in Psychology,
First president and founder of the American Psychological Association
- Sigmund Freud - -Focus on the unconscious mind and how the unconscious
mind affects behavior
- John Watson - -Conducted the famous "Little Albert" experiment and taught
that people's behavior was a product of experiences
- BF Skinner - -Famous behavioral psychology contributions (i.e., operant
conditioning)
- Abraham Maslow - -Contributed to humanistic psychology, people are
capable of personal growth
- Carl Rogers - -Client-centered therapy
- What is trephination? - -Drilling a small hole in skull to release demons
- What were prehistoric views of psych? - -Shamans and trephination
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