History and Fundamentals of Psychology

• Psychology

  Scientific study of behavior and mental process.
• What is this symbol? Ψ

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• Predictive Hypothesis

  Makes specific predictions or set predictions about the relationship among variables.
• Casual Hypothesis

  It states how one variable will influence another variable.
• Casual Hypothesis

  can be tested only when the researcher can control or manipulate the main variables in the study.
• Casual Hypothesis

  Where the researcher sets up different conditions in a study and then observes there is a change in the behavior due to a different condition.
• Left

  Which side of the brain is responsible for tasks relating to logic, reasoning, decision-making, speech and language?
• Left

  Which side of the brain controls and coordinates the right side of the body.
• right

  Which side of the brain deals with sensory inputs (visual and auditory awareness, creative and artistic abilities, and spatial perception)?
• Right

  Which side of the brain controls muscles on the left side of the body.
• Structuralism

  is a school of psychology that seeks to understand the structure of the mind and its perceptions by analyzing those perceptions into their constituent parts.
• Proponents of Structuralism: Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener.
• This is the focus of what hypothesis: Understanding the individual elements of consciousness and how they combine to create our mental experiences.

  Answer: Structural
• Structural

  It laid the groundwork for cognitive and experimental psychology.
• Functionalism

  is a school of psychology that focuses on the purpose and function of the mind and behavior in individual adaptation to the environment.
• John B. Watson founded Behaviorism.
• This is the focus of what: Understanding the adaptive purposes of mental processes and behaviors.

  Answer: Functionalism
• Free Association Technique

  The expression of the first thought and image that comes to mind, as well as the emergence of unconscious feelings and thoughts
• Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who established psychoanalysis.
• Rorschach Ink Test

  Attempting to reach the person's unconscious perceptions through first impressions of ink stains of various colors and forms
• Transference

  Attempting to reach the unconscious mind by showing the feelings and thought patterns that were fed towards others in childhood, in the current relationship with the therapist
• Countertransference

  After the person is transferred, the therapist reacts to them in different ways based on what they went through as a child. When necessary, the therapist also seeks supervision them.
• Interpretation of Resistance

  Questioning why the person isn't revealing their unconscious, doing things that will sabotage therapy or make them resistant to change, and trying to find out the underlying reasons with the client
• Dream analysis

  With the help of a therapist, a person can look at the symbols they saw in their dream, the events they went through, and the emotions they felt. This is done by using what the person thinks the objects in their dream mean. In this way, it is possible to try to get messages from the unconscious.
• Behaviorism

  Concerned with observable and measurable aspects of human behavior.
• Behaviorism

  believes that our behavior is determined by forces in the environment that shape our behavior
• Ivan Pavlov

  Created Classical Conditioning.
• Operant Conditioning

  Response is adjusted through punishment or reward as a stimuli