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When you have studied this chapter, you should be able to:
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Identify and define the four goals of psychology. |
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Identify and compare early views of psychology that focused on the elements of conscious experience, including those of Wundt, Titchener, Alston, and Gestalt psychology. |
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Identify and compare views in psychology that focused on the functions of the conscious mind, including those of James, Ebbinghaus, and Calkins. Also, explain functionalism's influence on contemporary cognitive psychology. |
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Identify the role of Binet in the Psychometrics movement. |
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Describe the origins of behaviorism and social learning theory. |
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Describe the neuroscience perspective in psychology. |
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Identify the early views of psychology that focused on the nature of the unconscious mind. |
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Describe the sociocultural perspective, and identify and define the terms associated with this approach, as well as how these factors have influenced the history of psychology. |
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Describe the specialty areas of modern psychology, listing and describing the differences between basic and applied areas of psychology. |
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Describe the relationship between psychology and psychiatry. |
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Identify the beliefs commonly shared by psychologists about human behavior. |