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Psychology ANS - The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Four Goals of Psychology ANS - Description, Explanation, Prediction, and Control
Wilhelm Wundt ANS - "Father of Psychology"; introspection-1879
Edward Titchener ANS - Wundt's student; brought structuralism to America
Margaret Washburn ANS - First woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology
William James ANS - founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our
environment
Minorities in Psychology ANS - many of psychology's early pioneers were minorities such as African
Americans who, despite prejudice and racism, made important contributions to the study of human and
animal behavior
Functionalism Influenced the Modern Fields of _________ ANS - educational, evolutionary, industrial,
and organizational psychology
Wertheimer ANS - Started Gestalt. Studied sensation and perception
Freud ANS - proposed that the unconscious mind controls much of our conscious behavior in his theory
of psychoanalysis
, Watson ANS - proposed a science of behavior called behaviorism, focused only on the study of
observable stimuli and responses
Watson and Raynor ANS - demonstrated that a phobia could be learned by conditioning a baby to be
afraid of a white rat-Little Albert
Mary Cover Jones ANS - one of Watson's more famous students in behaviorism and child development,
later demonstrated that a learned phobia could be counter-conditioned
Modern Freudians ANS - Anna Freud, Jung, and Adler changed the emphasis in Freud's original theory
into a kind of neo-Freudianism
Skinner ANS - Operant conditioning
Maslow and Rogers ANS - The humanistic perspective and therapy approach.
Cognitive Psychology ANS - study of learning, memory, language, and problem solving, and includes the
field of cognitive neuroscience
Biopsychology ANS - study of biological bases of behavior, such as hormones, heredity, chemicals in the
nervous system, structural defects in the brain, and the effects of physical diseases
Principles of Evolution ANS - used in perspective to see how mind works as it does; behavior seen as
adaptive or survival value
Psychologists ANS - academic degrees; counseling, teaching, and research, may specialize in any areas
of psychology
Psychology Specialization ANS - clinical, counseling, developmental, social, and personality
Psychiatrists ANS - medical doctors who provide diagnosis and therapy for persons with mental
disorders
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