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Psychology: Chapter 1

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the science of behavior and mental processes

  • applies the scientific method in testing claims and beliefs

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Psychology

front 2

  • founded Functionalism
  • focuses on how behavior helps us adapt to demands placed on us in the environment

back 2

William James

front 3

  • founded behaviorism
  • holds that psychology should limit itself to the study of observable behavior

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John Watson

front 4

  • founded Gestalt psychology
  • holds that the brain structures our perceptions of the world in terms of meaningful patters or wholes.
  • "The whole is greater than the sum of the parts"

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Max Wertheimer

front 5

  • focuses on the mind and the unconscious
  • the unconscious was responsible for primitive sexual and aggressive drives.
  • believes childhood experiences play an important role in shaping our personalities and behaviors which are rooted in unconscious conflicts in childhood

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Sigmund Freud

front 6

belief that environmental influences determine behavior and that psychology should restrict itself to the study of observable behavior

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Behavioral Perspective

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behavior is influenced by the struggle between unconscious sexual and aggressive impulses and opposing forces that try to keep this threatening material out of our consciousness

  • focuses on our inner lives such as fantasies, wishes, dreams, and hidden motives which have an impact on popular literature, art, and culture

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Psychodynamic Perspective

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believes that free will and conscious choice are essential aspects of the human experience

  • each of us as individuals who possess distinctive clusters of traits and abilities and unique frames of reference or perspectives on life

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Humanistic Perspective

front 9

examines relationships between biological processes and behavior

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Physiological Perspective

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focuses on processes by which we acquire knowledge which includes thinking, learning, memory, use of language, and probable solving

back 10

Cognitive Perspective

front 11

examines how behavior and attitudes are shaped by social and cultural influences

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Sociocultural Perspective