This ancient culture helped found the path for what we will later call Psychology- the study of mental processes of the human brain and individual behavior.
Ancient Greeks
A proposed explanation or predication for an observation or problem
Hypothesis
Semantic Memory
Eye color and Blood type
Nature
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This German fellow is considered the "father of psychology" while the Austrian fellow changed modern psychology and earns that title with his theories on psychoanalysis
Wilhem Wundt and Sigmund Freud
Conclusions drawn from multiple observations
Theory
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally is great help on that math test!
Encoding
The best subject to study in Nature vs. Nurture debates
Twins
If I have a disruption when I am an infant, Freud thinks I will more likely be a smoker as an adult
Oral (thumb sucking, feeding, babbling)
Lets put a rat in a box with a lever and food, and shock it!
B. F. Skinner
Research Designs that have repeated observations of a long period of time over the lifespan
Longitudinal
I swear I got in a fight with Ryan that day....it just sounds so familiar, it must have happened if you said it did!
False Memories
An adoption study and the family who raised them focuses on community and environment.
Nurture
object permanence
Ivan Pavlov
Before we begin, I must explain the nature of this study and obtain written agreement of participation
Informed Consent
My 13th birthday was SO embarrassing because I sneezed on my pink cake that had yellow flowers before I blew the purple candles out
Episodic Memory
Gradual, quantitative changes over time
Continuous Development
In this stage, Erik thinks its time to reflect on my life
Maturity age 65-death (Ego integrality vs. Despair)
To understand psychosocial development, you have to know my theory trust/mistrust, identity/confusion and so on. I had 8 great stages you should know
Erik Erikson
If you want to leave, there is the door. You can leave at any time
Withdrawal Rights
Reoccurring patterns help us create these, or memory templates, so I don't have to relearn how to act in the library every time I visit a new one.
Schemata
Relatively sudden qualitative changes.
Discontinuous development
Piaget's idea that I will likely explore my world by tasting, feeling, and smelling everything around me
Sensorimotor (birth-2)