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PSY 201
Chapters 1-3
36
Psychology
Not Applicable
10/15/2007

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Wundt
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"founder of psychology" made fist formal research lab in germany

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Stanley Hall
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established America's fist formal psych lab, est APA

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Titchner
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believed in structuralism:





psych should analyze consciouness into its basic elements and investigate how they are related
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William James
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wrote principles of pysch

believed in functionalism:


psych should investigate the function of purpose of consciousness

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Freud
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used psychoanalysis, promotes psycholanalytic theory

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psychoanlalytic theory
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attempts to explain personality, motivation and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinents of behavior
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unconscious
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contains thought, memories and desires well beyond the surface of conscious awareness but still exert great influence on behavior
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Watson (quote) and Skinner (book)
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believed in behaviorism "give me a baby and i can turn it into anything", Beyond Freedom and Dignity
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behaviorism
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psych should only stufy observed behavior, abandons study of consciousness (stimulus -response psych)
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Rogers and Maslow
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believed in humanism
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humanism
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emphasizes the unique qualities of humans, esp freedon and potential for personal growth, humans are governed by their sense of self: we are free, rational
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applie psychology
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concerned with everyday practical probs of psych
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clinical psych
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concerned with diagnosis and treatment of mental problems
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cognition
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the mental prcess involved in aquiring knowledge
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cognitive psychology
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psych should study internal mental processes to understand behavior
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biological psychology
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much of human/animal behavior can be explained in terms of bodily structures and biochemical processes that allow the organism to behave
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ethnocentricism
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tendency to view one's own group as superior
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evolutionary psych
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exaines behavioral processes in therms of their adaptive value for a memeber of a species over generations
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positive psych
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focuses on postive, adaptive, creative anf fulfilling aspects of human existence.
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introspection
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careful, systematic self-observation of one's conscious experience
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SQ3R
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study, question, read, recite, repeat
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steps in scientific method (5)
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1. formulate a testable hypothesis
2. select the research method and design the study
3. collect the data
4. analyze the data and draw conclusions
5. report findings
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extraneous variables
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any variable other than the independent varibale that seem likely to influence the dependent variable (ex/ 9/11 affecting a study)
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confounding variables
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when 2 variables are linked together in a way that makes it difficult to sort out their specific effects. solution: random group assignments
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descriptive/ correlational research methods
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when the researcher cant manipulate the variables, cannot for sure say cause and effect
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naturalistic obervation
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research method where researcher engages in careful observation of behavior without intervening directly with sujects

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descriptive statistics
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used to organize and summarize data
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variability
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how much the scores in a set of data differ from each other and from the mean
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standard deviation
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an index of the amount of variability in a set of data
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correlation coefficient
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a numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables (scale is -1 to 1)
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inferential statistics
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used to interpret data and draw conclusions
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statistical significance
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when the probability that the observed findings are due to chance is ver low
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replication
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the repetition of a study to see if earlier results are duplicated
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sampling bias
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when a sample isnt representational of the population it is drawn from
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reponse set
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a tendency to respond to questions in a particular way that is unrelated to the content of the questions
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double blind procedure
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when neither experimenter or subjects know which subjects are in the control or experimental groups

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