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Psychology - ✔✔the science of behavior and mental processes
Positive Psychology - ✔✔a field of research that focuses on people's positive
experiences and characteristics, such as happiness, optimism and resilience.
Describe the field of neuro-science. - ✔✔the scientific study of all levels of the nervous
system, including neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neurology, and neuropharmacology.
Explain William Wundts approach to cognitive - ✔✔Used methods of laboratory
science to study sensory- perceptual systems, focus on his work was consciusness, how
they are organized and they relate to one another. Used light or sound and had
participants to describe sensations and feelings. **Established first formal psychology
research laboratory in 1879 in Germany
Explain James, Functionalism - ✔✔wanted to understand how images, sensations,
memories, and other mental events that make up our flowing "stream of consciouses"
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, function to help us adapt to our environment. Founded a psychology labortory at
Harvard in late 1870s- focused on the role of consciousness in guiding people's ability to
make decisions, solve problems,and the like.
Describe Watson's ideas/explain Behaviorism - ✔✔to study only observable behavior
and explain behavior through learning principles/ observation of the relationship
between environmental stimuli and behavioral responses.
Explain the basic ideas of biological approach - ✔✔assumes that behavior and mental
processes aer largely shaped by biological processes. Psychologists who take this
approach study the psychological effects of hormones, genes and the activity of the
nervous system, especially the brain.
Explain how psychology developed as a science - ✔✔roots can be traced through the
centuries through the history of philosophy. Theory of empiricism important to
development of scientific psychology.
Psychodynamic approach - ✔✔is views developed by Frued that emphasizes the
interplay of conscious mental processes in determining human thought, feelings and
behavior.
Behavior - ✔✔an approach to psychology emphasizing that human behavior is
determined mainly by what a person has learned, especially from rewards and
punishments
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