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GPSYC 101 JMU
GPSYC FINAL
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/02/2007

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Epistemology:
Definition
study of how knowledge is acquired
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Empiricism:
Definition
a way to acquire knowledge thru ones senses
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Rationalism:
Definition
taking in knowledge without sensory input
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Introspection:
Definition
senses can distort
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Descartes:
Definition
Mind-body problem ("I think therefore I am")
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Monism:
Definition
mind is inseparable from the body
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Dualism:
Definition
mind is separable from the body
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Cartesian Dualism:
Definition
body affects what mind does
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Physiology's contribution to psychology: Fechner
Definition
psychophysics and the mind - body problem
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Physiology's contribution to psychology: Pavlov
Definition
learning, originally studying digestion system in dogs
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Structuralism
Definition
Wundt, Titchener
• use of introspection and reductionism
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Functionalism
Definition
William James
• Adaptive value of consciousness
• Concerned with differentiating humans from other animals
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Behaviorism
Definition
Watson, skinner
• Psychology has nothing to do with mind
• Study of behavior
• Influenced by determinism
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Psychodynamisim
Definition
Freud
• You are affected by stuff you are unaware of, unconscious
motivators
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Gestaltism
Definition
Kohler
• Anti-reductionistic
• Studied way people discern and recognize things
• Whole is greater that sum of the parts
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Humanism
Definition
Maslow, Rogers
• Behavior is affected by the way we think about things
• Study of self-actualization
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Cognitivism
Definition
Miller, Simon
• Study of mental process as if they are behaviors, study of
memory
• Information processing
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Neuropsychology
Definition
• Research done on brain
• Study of nervous system and affects of behavior, emotions
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Behavior analysis
Definition
• Animal behavior
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Comparative psychology
Definition
• How different areas and species are compared
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Social psychology
Definition
• How we interact with other people
Term
Cognitive psychology
Definition
• The study of cognition, the mental processes, that underlie
behavior including thinking, reasoning, decision making, and
to some extent motivation and emotion
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Clinical psychology
Definition
• Study of what's wrong with people
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Psychoanalysis
Definition
• Way to treat mild disorders
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Counseling psychology
Definition
• Treat normal life situations
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