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What is the primary focus of the approaches chapter in psychology?
Different ways of explaining
behavior
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What does the approaches chapter in psychology concern itself with?
Different ways of explaining
behavior
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Around what year is psychology generally dated as a distinct brand of study?
Around
1880
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Who were some of the early philosophers that influenced psychology?
Rene Descartes
and
John Locke
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Approximately how far back does evidence of psychological intervention date?
Around
6000
BC
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What topics will be covered regarding the evolution of psychology?
How psychology has
evolved
over
time
Work and
evaluation
of
Wilhelm Wundt
Emergence
of psychology as a
scientific
discipline
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What is the name of the procedure where people used to drill holes in other people's heads to release evil spirits?
Trapanning
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Who opened the first experimental lab for psychology in 1879?
Wilhelm Wundt
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What is considered a key event in the emergence of psychology as a distinct discipline?
Wilhelm Wundt
opening the first
experimental
lab
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Which approach emphasizes the influence of the unconscious mind on behavior?
The
psychodynamic
approach
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Who is associated with the psychodynamic approach?
Sigmund Freud
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Which approach dominated psychology for the first half of the 21st century?
The
behaviorist
approach
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Who are the key figures associated with the behaviorist approach?
B.F. Skinner
and
John Watson
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Which approach emphasizes free will and self-determination?
The
humanistic
approach
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What did the humanistic approach actively reject?
The
behaviorist
and
psychodynamic
approaches
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Which approaches emerged with technological advances in the second half of the 20th century?
Cognitive
and
biological
approaches
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What did the cognitive and biological approaches focus on?
Mental
and
biological
processes on behavior
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What is the significance of Wilhelm Wundt's lab?
First
lab dedicated to
psychological
inquiry
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Who is considered the first person to be known as a psychologist?
Wilhelm Wundt
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In what city and country did Wilhelm Wundt open his lab?
Leipzig
,
Germany
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Why is Wundt's work considered significant?
Marks the
beginning
of
scientific
psychology
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What was Wundt's primary aim?
Analyze the nature of
human consciousness
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What method did Wilhelm Wundt pioneer to study the mind?
Introspection
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What was the main objective of Wundt's work?
Develop
theories
about
mental
processes
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Into what three categories did Wundt and his co-workers divide their observations?
Thoughts
,
images
, and
sensations
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What is structuralism?
Isolating the
structure
of
consciousness
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By whose standards was the value of introspection questioned in the early 20th century?
Behaviorists
like
John Watson
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Why was introspection questioned?
Produced very
subjective
data
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What does behaviorism believe a truly scientific psychology should study?
Things that can be observed
objectively
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How did behaviorism study behaviors?
Carefully controlled
experiments
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What did cognitive psychologists compare the mind to?
A
computer
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How did the cognitive approach ensure the study of the mind was legitimate and scientific?
Used carefully controlled
lab studies
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How does the biological approach investigate processes?
Using sophisticated
scanning techniques
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How do researches in the biological approach study the link between genes and behavior?
Genetic testing
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What is a strength of Wundt's work?
Methods were very
systematic
and
well-controlled
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What is a limitation of introspection?
Self-reporting
mental processes is
subjective
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What is one of the aims of scientific study?
To establish meaningful
laws
of
behavior
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What is a strength of modern psychology?
It can claim to be
scientific
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What is one of the same aims that modern psychology has as natural sciences?
To
describe,
understand,
predict
and
control
behavior
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How do cognitive, behaviorist, and biological approaches investigate theories?
Rely on scientific methods like
lab studies
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