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Psyc Makeup exam
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
05/01/2011

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Term
psychology
Definition
scientific study of behavior and mind
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behavior
Definition

observable actions such as moving about, talking, gesturing, and so on

 

can also refer to the action of cells and to thought and feelings

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mind
Definition
the contents and processes of subjective experience: sensations, emotions and thoughts
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clinical psychologists 
Definition
psychologists who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psyc problems
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psychiatrists
Definition
medical doctors who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psyc problems
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applied psychologists 
Definition
psychologists who extend the principles of scientific pssychology to practical problems
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research psychologists
Definition
psychologists who try to discover the basic principles of behavior and mind
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empiricism
Definition
the idea that knowledge comes directly from experience
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tabula rasa
Definition
blank tablet
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who supported empiricism 
Definition
aristotle
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nativism
Definition
the idea that some knowledge is innate or present at birth
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who's associated with nativism
Definition
Immanual Kant
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gestalt psychology
Definition
a movement proposing that certain organizing principles of perception are innate and cannot be altered by experience
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structuralism
Definition
try to understand the mind by breaking it down into parts, much as a chemist might try to understand a chemical compound
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systematic introspection
Definition

used to study the mind

 

systematic introspection required people to look inward and describe their own experiences

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founding father of psychology
Definition
wilhelm wundt
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functionalism 
Definition
believes the proper way to understand mind and behavior is to first analyze their function and purpose
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structuralism associated with
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wundt and titchener
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fundamentalism associated with
Definition

james

 

and 

 

Angell

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behaviorism associated with
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watson and skinner 
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behaviorism
Definition
proposes that the only proper subject matter of psychology is observable behavior rather than immediate conscious experience
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psychoanalysis
Definition

a term used by freu to describe his theory of mind and system of therapy

 

 

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who is associated with psychoanalytical approach
Definition
freud
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humanistic associated with
Definition
rogers and maslow
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humanistic response
Definition
a movement in psyc that focuses on people's unique capacities for choice, responsibility, and growth
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first women to recieve a PHD in psyc
Definition
margaret floy washburn
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helped pioneer the study of sex differences, abolishing a number of myths about women that were widely accepted at the time
Definition
helen thompson wooley
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eclectiv approach
Definition
the idea that it's useful to select info from several sources rather than to rely entirely on a single perspective or school of thought
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cognitive revolution
Definition
the shift away from strict behaviorism, begun in the 1950s, characterized by renewed interest in fundamental problems of consciousness and internal mental processes
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evolutionary psychology 
Definition

a movement proposing that we're born with mental processes and "software" that guide our thinking and behavior

 

these innate mechanisms were aquired through natural selection in our ancestral past and help us to solve specific adaptive problems

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culture 
Definition
the shared values, customs, and beliefs of a group or community
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scientific method
Definition
a multistep technique that genereate empirical knowledge- that is, knowledge derived from systematic observations of the world
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operational definitions
Definition
definitions that specify how concepts can be observed and measured
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operational definition example
Definition

intelligence measured by performance on a test

 

memory measured by the number of words correctly recalled on a retention test

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descriptive research
Definition
methods designed to observe and describe behavior
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reactivity
Definition
when behavior changes as a result of the observational process
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external validity
Definition
the extent to which results generalize to other situations or are representative of real life
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naturalistic observation
Definition
a descriptive research technique that records naturally occurring behavior as opposed to behavior produced in the laboratory
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case study
Definition
a descriptive research technique in which the effort is focused on a single case, usually an individual
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survey
Definition
a descriptive research technique designed to gather limited amounts of info from many people, usually by administering some kind of questionnaire
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random sampling
Definition
a procedure guaranteeing that everyone in the pop has an equal likelihood of being selected for the sample
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variablity
Definition
a measure of how the score in a distribution of scores differ from one another
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standard deviation
Definition
an indication of how much individual score differ or vary from the mean
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how to calculate standard deviation
Definition

1. finding the difference of each score from the mean

2. squaring those deviations

3. finding the average of the squared deviations

4. finding the square root of this average

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descriptive statistics
Definition

mathematical techniques that help researchers describe their data

 

ex- mean and standard deviation

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