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Psychology
Intro and Chapter 1
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Psychology
12th Grade
08/31/2009

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Behavioral perspective
Definition
How we learn observable responses
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cognitive perspective
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how we encode,process, and store and retrieve information; memory and problem solving
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psychoanalytic perspective
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how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts; dream interpretations
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humanist perspective
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focus on positive behavior; emphasized current environmental influences on our growth potential, our need for love and acceptance; Maslow- hierarchy of needs; Rogers
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biological perspective/ neuroscience
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how the body and brain enable emotion
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evolutionary perspective
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how natural selection of traits promotes genes; how our genes and our environments influence our differences
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structuralism
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idea of separating the mind and study individual parts; INTROSPECTION
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wundt
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established the first psychological lab in Germany; structuralism
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titchner
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started structuralism
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functionalism
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adaptation, bahavior changing depending on the situation; influenced by Darwin
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william james
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established functionalism
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gestalt
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means 'pattern' look a patterns people create with their bahavior, opposite of structuralism
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max wertheimer
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gestalt theory
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psychoanalytic
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the unconscious mind; not aware of how we behave, motivated by unconscious drive; hypnosis and free association
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behaviorism
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focusing on observable behaviors, rewards and punishment, don't care about motivation
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watson
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founded bahaviorism
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skinner
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popularized behaviorism
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introspection
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report what you are feeling
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applied psychology
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clinical, counseling, educational, industrial/organizational
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hypothesis
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a testable prediction
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independent variable
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treatment, thing that changes
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dependent variable
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what you are measuring
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control group
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does not receive the treatment
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experimental group
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recieves the treatment
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placebo
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sugar pill, fake treatment
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single blind
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subject doesnt know
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double blind
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neither participant nor experimenter knows
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operational definitions
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a statement of procedures used to define research variables
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validity
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measures what you set out to measure
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reliability
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can test and retest; can be replicated
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confounding variables
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interfere but not intended to
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random sample
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fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion
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stratified sample
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a preselected number of people are drawn from various sectors of the population
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population
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all the cases in a group, from which samples may be drawn for a study
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bias
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act certain way based on information known
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hawthorne effect
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if you know you are being watched you behave differently
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ex post facto method
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study after its effects occured
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naturalistic observation
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watch people in their natural environment
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correlation coefficient
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statistical measure of the extent to which two factors vary together and thus how well either factor predicts the other
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survey method
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ask questions and send out
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case study
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study and individual or small group intensly
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longitudinal study
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study for a long time- progress
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illusory correlation
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percieved nonexistend correlation
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hindsight bias
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finding that something has happened makes it seem inevitable; the 'i knew it all along' phenomenon
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overconfidence
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tend to think we know more thn we do
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false consensus effect
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overestimate others' agreement with us
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socrates and plato
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mind and body were sepereate entities and mind continued to exist after death; ideas were innate
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aristotle
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suggested that sould is not seperable from the body and that idease gtrow from experience; empiricism
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hippocrates
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humors theory= you have behaviors because of an imbalance of bodily fluids
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descartes
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interactive dualism- mind and body work together
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locke
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tabula rasa- blank slate
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pinel/rush/dix
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moral therapy- treat the mentall ill with care and respect; rush brought to america, pinel spread in europe, dix took it to congress and successful
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gail/lombroso
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phrenology- personality, behavior, and looks determined by bumps on skull; mapped the head
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g stanley hall
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first lab in us, first phd in psych in us started american journal of psychology, first pres of APA
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margaret floy washburn
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first woman to actually recieve a phd in psychology
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mary whiton calkins
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first woman elected president of apa; completed work for phd but wasnt awarded one
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psychiatrist
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MD- use treatments like drugs and psychotherapy to treat psychologically disease patients
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psychologist
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PHD- studies, assesses and treates troubled people with psychotherapy
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