Psychology

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Evolutionary Psychology

how human behaviors adapt in pressure of the course of evolution

Sociocultural Approach

how backgrounds and cultural experienced affect behavior and mental process.

Biological psychology studies what?

brain,neurotransmitters,hormones,and effects of heredity

Hamanistic Psychology

hamans have the capacity for choice, growth, and psychological health.

Psychoanalytic theory

individuals thoughts, feelings, and behavior also determined primarily by unconscious mind

Sigmund Freud's Followers

Jung,Adler,and Horney

Known for the unconsciousness mind and sex & aggression

Sigmund Freud

Who developed the Personality Theory

Sigmund Freud

Structuralism

established psychology as a science & pieces of consciousness

Basic Research

To seek new knowledge and advances general scientific understanding

"Father of Psychology"

Wilhelm Wundt

Applied Research

Solving practical problems (everyday things)

"When you are born you are born with some knowledge"

Plato,Socrates,and Aristotle

Operant Conditioning

emphasizes the importance on reinforcements

Behavorism

redefined psychology as the "science of behavior"

Functionalism

how humans/animals mental process adapt to their environment

Who developed functionalism

Charles Darwin

Behaviorism was named by who?

John B. Watson

Established the first psychological lab in Germany (University of Leipzig)

Wilhelm Wundt

Who studied cultural and social influences on human thought

Wilhellm Wundt

"Founders" Of Psychology

Ernst Walker,Gustav Fechner, Herman Von Helmholtz

B.F. Skinner influences what?

Behaviorism

" You are born with at ----------- slate"

Tabula Rasa

Leader of Imperities

John Locke

Psychology

The scientific study of behavior and the mental process

Behavior that is ----------- is likely to be repeated

Reinforced