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| How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts |
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| Psychology should be a science based on observable (and only observable) events, without the unconscious or conscious mind |
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| a branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior |
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| How nature selects traits that promote the perpetuation of one’s genes |
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| How the body and brain create emotions, memories, and sensory experiences |
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-Psychoanalysis; focus on unconscious
-Biological psychology
-Neuroscience approach |
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| 1st psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany (1879); Structuralism; Inner sensations |
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| Behaviorism (Pavlovian influence); S-R Psychology |
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| tendency to believe after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. "I knew it all along" |
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| perception of a relationship where no one exists |
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| observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principals |
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| observe and record behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation |
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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. |
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| A statistical index of the relation between two things(from 1 to 1+) |
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| A research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors(Independent Variable) to observe the (dependent variable). |
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| The factor in a formal experiment that is manipulated to measure the outcome of the manipulation |
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| the outcome of a formal experiment, measuring the effect of manipulating an independent variable |
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| a 'fake' independent variable, measuring the accuracy of the independent variable being manipulated |
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| Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, thus minimizing, preexisting difference between the different groups. |
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