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Psych 101
Ch 1, 11, 2, 13
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
01/09/2009

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Wundt
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Structureist identify the components of the conscience mind
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James
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Functionalism mind helps humans adapt
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Mamie & Keneth Clark
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Findings ended school segregation
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Mary Calkins
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The first female pres. of APA
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Sigmund Freud
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Psychoanalsis - Misunderstood at its time. Focuses on subconscience and hormones
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Watson
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Behaviorism observable behaviors
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Sample and Population
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Sample is a random selection from the Population you are studying
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Descriptive Statistics
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Numbers that summarize and describe behavior or char. of a particular sample
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Inferential Statistics
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Math Analysis to make inferences about the population from the sample
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Experimental research
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examines cause and effect manipulated by the researcher
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Independent variable
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Manipulated
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Dependent Variable
Definition
changes are the effect of independent varible
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Prognosis
Definition
prediction of likely course of disorder
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Diagnosis
Definition
distinguishing one disorder from another
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Etiology
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cause that led to disorder
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symptom
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sign of disorder
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DSM
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Diag. and Stat. manual of mental disorders.
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Diathesis-stress model
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disorder that combines with enviromental stressors to trigger a psych disorder
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Dopamine
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Thought and emotion
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Cortisol
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stress
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Serotonin
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regulates emotional state: aggression appetite, and sleep onset.
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cognitive dissonance
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performing an action that is incinsistent with one's attitudes.
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Passionate Love
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Early stage of attration
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Compassionate Love
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affection towards those we are entwined with.
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Stereotypes
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Fixed way fo thinking about people categories. doesnt allow for individual variation
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Fundemental Attribution error
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Frontal lobe
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Higher level processing
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Cognitive Dis
Definition
two conflicting situations that cause anxiety
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self serving bias
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attribute our success to internal attributions, bad we make external
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Fundemental attribution Error
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others mistakes - Internal
Ours - External
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Diffusion of Resposability
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Ppl will not take responsibility.
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corrolation and intepretaion
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strength of corrolation. positive go up
no causality
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Sensaton
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using the senses to receive info from the enviroment
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perception
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orginizing sensations into menaingful objects and events
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Gestalt
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orginizes stimuli into coherent wholes
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wertheimer
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motion parallax - things close seem to move quicker and things the distance appear slowly
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Gestalt Form
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Prox, Sim, Cont, connected
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Figure ground Relationship
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when people focus on an object they distiguish it fro the surrndings
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percep. Constancy
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tendency to preceive objects as relatively stable despite continually changing sensory information
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