LSU PSYC 2000: Exam 1 (Ch. 1-3
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psychology - ✔✔Scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
behavior - ✔✔Outward and overt actions and reactions.
mental processes - ✔✔Internal, covert (hidden0 activity of our minds.
objective introspection - ✔✔The process of examining and measuring one's own
thoughts and mental activities.
systematicmore info approach - ✔✔An approach to study psychology more precise and
to measure as carefully as they can.
Wundt - ✔✔Father of psychology
Consciousness could be broken down into thoughts, experiences, emotions, and other
basic elements.
Titchener - ✔✔Structuralism
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,Every experience could be broken down into its individual emotions and sensations.
Objective introspection could be used on thoughts as well as on physical sensations.
Margaret F. Washburn - ✔✔First woman to receive a Ph. D in psychology from Cornell
University.
Harvard University - ✔✔First school to offer classes in psychology.
James - ✔✔Functionalism
Conscious ideas are constantly flowing in an ever changing stream.
Mary Whiton Calkins - ✔✔First female president of the American Psychological
Association
Completed every requirement for a Ph.D. but was denied that degree by Harvard
University because she was a woman.
Francis Cecil Sumner - ✔✔First African American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology at
Clark University.
structuralism - ✔✔Wilhelm Wundt & Edward Titchener
Early perspective in psychology in which the focus of study is the structure or basic
elements of the mind.
functionalism - ✔✔William James
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, Early perspective in psychology in which the focus of study is how the mind allows
people to adapt, live, work, and play.
gestalt psychology - ✔✔Max Wertheimer
Early perspective in psychology focusing on perception and sensation, particularly the
perception of patters and whole figures.
psychoanalysis - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
An insight therapy emphasizing the revealing of unconscious conflicts; Freud's term for
both theory of personality and the therapy based on it.
behaviorism - ✔✔The science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only.
psychodynamic perspective - ✔✔Modern version of psychoanalysis that is more
focused on the development of a sense of self and the discovery of motivations behind a
person's behavior other than sexual motivations.
cognitive perspective - ✔✔Modern perspective in psychology that focuses on memory,
intelligence, perception, problem solving, and learning.
cognitive neuroscience - ✔✔Study of physical changes in the brain and nervous system
during thinking.
sociocultural perspective - ✔✔Perspective that focuses on the relationship between
social behavior and culture.
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Vocab.) Questions and Answers 100%
Pass
psychology - ✔✔Scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
behavior - ✔✔Outward and overt actions and reactions.
mental processes - ✔✔Internal, covert (hidden0 activity of our minds.
objective introspection - ✔✔The process of examining and measuring one's own
thoughts and mental activities.
systematicmore info approach - ✔✔An approach to study psychology more precise and
to measure as carefully as they can.
Wundt - ✔✔Father of psychology
Consciousness could be broken down into thoughts, experiences, emotions, and other
basic elements.
Titchener - ✔✔Structuralism
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,Every experience could be broken down into its individual emotions and sensations.
Objective introspection could be used on thoughts as well as on physical sensations.
Margaret F. Washburn - ✔✔First woman to receive a Ph. D in psychology from Cornell
University.
Harvard University - ✔✔First school to offer classes in psychology.
James - ✔✔Functionalism
Conscious ideas are constantly flowing in an ever changing stream.
Mary Whiton Calkins - ✔✔First female president of the American Psychological
Association
Completed every requirement for a Ph.D. but was denied that degree by Harvard
University because she was a woman.
Francis Cecil Sumner - ✔✔First African American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology at
Clark University.
structuralism - ✔✔Wilhelm Wundt & Edward Titchener
Early perspective in psychology in which the focus of study is the structure or basic
elements of the mind.
functionalism - ✔✔William James
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, Early perspective in psychology in which the focus of study is how the mind allows
people to adapt, live, work, and play.
gestalt psychology - ✔✔Max Wertheimer
Early perspective in psychology focusing on perception and sensation, particularly the
perception of patters and whole figures.
psychoanalysis - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
An insight therapy emphasizing the revealing of unconscious conflicts; Freud's term for
both theory of personality and the therapy based on it.
behaviorism - ✔✔The science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only.
psychodynamic perspective - ✔✔Modern version of psychoanalysis that is more
focused on the development of a sense of self and the discovery of motivations behind a
person's behavior other than sexual motivations.
cognitive perspective - ✔✔Modern perspective in psychology that focuses on memory,
intelligence, perception, problem solving, and learning.
cognitive neuroscience - ✔✔Study of physical changes in the brain and nervous system
during thinking.
sociocultural perspective - ✔✔Perspective that focuses on the relationship between
social behavior and culture.
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