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| the scientific study of behavior and mental process |
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| describe, explain, prediction, influence |
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| knowledge that originated in experience |
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| the way a person behaves/ attitude/ actions |
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believed you are born with intelligence
i think therefore i am |
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tabula rasa- born with nothing
everything you are you are taught and experienced |
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opened first psych lab
made psych a science |
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| broke down consciousness to basic thoughts |
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| used introspection to search for minds structural elements |
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| self observation of ones consciousness experiences |
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james
investigate the function of the purpose of consciousness rather than its structure |
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| focused on natural surroundings and the environment. also wrote 1st psych text book |
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| study of bumps on the head to determine human behavior |
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| the whole is different then the sum of parts, study of whole person |
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| experiments that tells us cause |
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| psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic |
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| study of unconscious motives and conflicts that determine behavior |
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had the idea of unconscious urges
sex |
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| dog guy, classical conditional |
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| classical conditioning, little Albert |
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| oc= operante conditioning, rewards and punishments |
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| mental process involved in acquiring process and storing |
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| memory preparation language development and problem solving |
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| cognitive, studied children, and mind development |
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| focused on genetics, hormones, body, brain creates emotions |
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| love belonging reaching full potential, people can grow, free will |
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| believed in client centered therapy |
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| the idea that culture and social norms influence and predict behavior |
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| inherited behaviors there for behaviors helped ancestors survive |
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| natural selection- survival of the fittest |
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| elective view of psychology |
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| pick and choose from each perspective to explain behaviors |
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| genetic, hereditary, biology |
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| how you are raised defines you, you are a product of your experiences |
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| trained to observe an influence behavior in people |
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| medical doctor, can subscribe medicine |
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| study of people over time |
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| study personality traits in people evolving |
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| studies relationships between learning and environments |
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| asses and interviews with children in school setting |
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study group behaviors issues
ex: racism, conformity |
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| help people with stress crisis and depression |
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| industrial/ organizational |
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| studies relationship between people and their workplace. also concerned with consumers |
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help people with non mental illness
basically a normal counselor |
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help people with real mental illness
depression |
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| applies psychological principles in the areas of research, policy, and law enforcement |
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| studies the factors involved in physicals activities and apply it to everyday knowledge. |
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the tendency to think that past events were more predictable than they actually are
ex: why didnt i see that |
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| sometimes in testing they figure out the test and become |
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| just knowledge you are participating in a study can change the outcome |
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| accidentally giving information or tipping people off in a study |
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| tendency of people to favor information that confirms their believes |
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| systematic inquiry aimed at the discovery of new knowledge |
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| how you explain behavior, gut feeling |
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| is a testable prediction that lets us accept reject or revise a theory |
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| repeating a study to see if you get the same results |
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| entire group you wish to study |
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| is a group of participants that represents a population |
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| everyone is population has a equal chance of being in the study |
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| only describes doesn't explain |
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| intense study of a person or group with bizarre tests and interviews |
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| data is taken from the same person/group over a period of time |
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| data is collected from groups of individuals of different ages and compared |
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self reports of attitudes and opinion
-cheap - you can get a lot of feedback quickly - danger of wrong answers |
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| observing in natural setting |
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| only shows relationships between variables |
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| relationship between 2 variables |
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| positive correlation coefficient |
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both varibles increase
ex: study more grades go up |
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| negative correlation coefficient |
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one variable goes up and one goes down
ex: the more you brush your teeth the less amount of cavities |
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| illusory correlation coefficient |
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you think there is a relationship
ex: you think pushing the elevator button will make it come faster |
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| a way of graphing information/ data that can be random confirmatory |
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| participant doesn't know but experimenter does |
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| neither the participant or know who is getting treated |
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| everyone has a equal chance to be assigned to either group |
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| variables in experiment you need to define them |
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| always be drug whatever is being manipulated |
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| whatever is being measured |
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| object in experiment that proves that A causes B |
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| "sugar pill" is given to patient and patient believes its real drug curing a problem |
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| describes stats and includes mea median and mode |
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the test measures what its suppose to
ex: study on favorite movies but asks questions about TV shows |
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| repetition of experiment to see if you get the same results |
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| branch of math that summarizes and makes meaningful inferences to data |
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| the variance of scores around the mean |
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| normal distribution, mean median and mode are all the same |
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| outliers skew distributions |
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| a statistical statement on how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance |
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American psychology association
oversees everything, rules polices etc |
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| Ethical guidelines in psychological research |
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cant physically or mentally harm someone
right to quit
debrief when over
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