Psychology - ANSWER The scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior
Where did psychology branch out from? - ANSWER Physiology and Philosophy
Structuralism - ANSWER Focused on the structure of consciousness and the mind (not
identified with anymore)
2 Structuralists - ANSWER Wundt and Titchener
Functionalism - ANSWER Focused on the function of the mind in helping people adapt
to their environment (not identified with anymore)
2 Functionalists - ANSWER Darwin and James
3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena - ANSWER Theoretical
Propositions, Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods of Observation
Modern Perspectives - ANSWER Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Evolutionary
Psychodynamic - ANSWER started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy to test or
prove because of small sample size
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, Behaviorist - ANSWER Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are byproducts
of environmental events; experiment
Behaviorist Metaphor - ANSWER People are like machines
Cognitive - ANSWER Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and retrieve
information (Perspective)
Cognitive Metaphor - ANSWER Brain like a computer
Evolutionary - ANSWER Darwin; behaviors have come about because they helped our
ancestors survive
Evolutionary Metaphor - ANSWER runners in a race
Biopsychology - ANSWER Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub-discipline)
Developmental psychology - ANSWER How thought, feeling, and behavior develops
through life span
Social Psychology - ANSWER Influence of real or imagined others influence on the
individual
Industrial/Organizational Psychology - ANSWER Human behavior within an
organization as well as organizational problems (sub-discipline)
Educational Psychology - ANSWER Psychological processes in learning environments
(sub-discipline)
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Where did psychology branch out from? - ANSWER Physiology and Philosophy
Structuralism - ANSWER Focused on the structure of consciousness and the mind (not
identified with anymore)
2 Structuralists - ANSWER Wundt and Titchener
Functionalism - ANSWER Focused on the function of the mind in helping people adapt
to their environment (not identified with anymore)
2 Functionalists - ANSWER Darwin and James
3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena - ANSWER Theoretical
Propositions, Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods of Observation
Modern Perspectives - ANSWER Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Evolutionary
Psychodynamic - ANSWER started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy to test or
prove because of small sample size
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, Behaviorist - ANSWER Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are byproducts
of environmental events; experiment
Behaviorist Metaphor - ANSWER People are like machines
Cognitive - ANSWER Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and retrieve
information (Perspective)
Cognitive Metaphor - ANSWER Brain like a computer
Evolutionary - ANSWER Darwin; behaviors have come about because they helped our
ancestors survive
Evolutionary Metaphor - ANSWER runners in a race
Biopsychology - ANSWER Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub-discipline)
Developmental psychology - ANSWER How thought, feeling, and behavior develops
through life span
Social Psychology - ANSWER Influence of real or imagined others influence on the
individual
Industrial/Organizational Psychology - ANSWER Human behavior within an
organization as well as organizational problems (sub-discipline)
Educational Psychology - ANSWER Psychological processes in learning environments
(sub-discipline)
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