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| Greek Philosopher - wrote about dreams , senses and memory |
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| French philosopher - promoted a doetrine called "Interactive dualism" |
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The founder of psychology |
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| Functionalism - He Stablished the first research lab in the US at Jonh Hopkins University 1883 |
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| First woman to be elected president of the APA |
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| First woman PHD in pshycology / second womean president of the APA |
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1 surveys
2 case study
3 naturalistic observation
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Nature (heredity)
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| How the body and brain alow emotions, memories, and sensory experiences. |
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| How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one's genes . |
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| How much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences . |
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| How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts . |
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| How we learn observable responses. |
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| How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information . |
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| How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures |
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| The perception of a relationship where none exists . |
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| Sometimes we think we know more than we do . |
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| An opnion about whether a person, group, idea is good or bad, that influences how you deal with it. |
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| A testable prediction, often implied by a theory. |
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| The relationship between a cause and effecr that it has . |
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| A relationship between two ideas, facts etc. |
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| The correlation coefficient a concept from statistics is a measure of how well trends in the predicted values follow trends in past actual values. It is a measure of how well the predicted values from a forecast model "fit" with the real-life data. |
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Correlation Coefficient - Indicates relationship between to variables. |
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R - 0.37
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A perfect fit gives a coefficient of 1.0 |
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| It is a technique in which a person is studied in depth . |
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| A substance given to a patient instead of medicine, withour telling them it is not real. |
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| An experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo. |
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| The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. |
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A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other.
The correlation coefficient is the mathematical expression of the relationship, ranging from -1 to +1 |
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| Explore the links between brain and mind. |
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PSYCHOLOGISTS
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| Study changing abilities from womb to tomb. |
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| Study how we perceive, think, and solve problems. |
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| Explorer how we view and affect one another. |
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| Studies, assesses , and treats people with psychological disorder. |
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| Helps people cope with academic, vocational, and marital challenges. |
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| The most frequently occuring score(s) in a distribution. |
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| The arithmetic average of a distribution, obtained by adding the scores and then dividing by the number of scores. |
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| The middle measurements in a set of measurements that are arranged in order. |
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The limits within which amounts, quantities, ages etc.
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| A number in statistics that shows how widely members of a mathematical set vary from the average set. |
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Standard Deviation Formula |
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| sum of deviation (square) / number of scores |
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