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Description of subjective experience (5 senses, smell, texture, etc)
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| dealt with structure of mental life |
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| studied how the mind functions to adapt human and animals to their environment |
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| Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic |
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| Unconscious processes and unresolved past conflicts |
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| Objective, observable environmental influences on over behavior |
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| Free will, self actualization, and human nature as naturally positive and growth seeking |
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| thinking, perceiving, problem solving, memory, language, and information processing |
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neuroscience/biopsychology
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| genetics and biological processes in the brain and other parts of the nervous system |
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| Natural selection, adaption, and evolution of behavior and mental processes |
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| Social interaction and the cultural determinants of behavior and mental processes |
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| What are psychology's major specialties |
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Biopsychology/neuroscience
Experimental
Cognitive
Develpmental
clinical
counseling
industrial/organizational
education |
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| What is the difference between structuralism and functionalism? |
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Structuralists sought to identify elements of conciousness and how those elements formed the structure of the mind.
Functionalists studied how mental processes help the individual adapt to the environment |
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| What are the 7 major perspectives that guide modern psycology? |
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Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic
behavioral
humanistic
cognitive
neuroscience/biopsychology
evolutionary
sociocultural |
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| What is the difference between basic and applied research |
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Basic research is conducted in universities or research labs by researchers interested in advancing general scientific understanding. KNOWLEDGE FOR THE SAKE OF KNOWLEDGE
Applied research exists to change existing real-world problems |
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| statistical procedure for combining and analyzing data from many studies. |
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What are the 6 steps in the Scientific Method
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Literature review
Testable hypothesis, operationally defined
Research design
Statistical analysis
Peer-review scientific journal
Theory
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What are the key ethical issues in psychological research and therapy?
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Informed consent
Voluntary participation
Restricted us of deception and debriefing
Confidentiality
Alternative activities (if needed to pass class for college students) |
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| Assuming that behaviors typical in our culture are typical in all cultures |
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| Procedure in which both the researcher and the participant are unaware of who is in the experimental or control group. |
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| group of research participants selected to represent a larger group, or "population" |
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| Occurs when research participants are not representative of the larger population. |
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| Using chance methods to assign participants to experimental or control conditions, thus minimizing the possibility of biases or preexisting differences in the groups |
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| Occurs when experimental conditions influence the participants behavior or mental processes |
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| Astrologists, psychics-non scientific |
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| Observes and describes behavior and mental processes without manipulating variables. |
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| When measuring and recording the observable behavior of participants as it occurs in the real world. |
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| REsearch technique that questions a large sample of people to assess their behaviors and attitudes |
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| In-depth study of a single research participants |
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| REsearchers observes or measures(without directly manipulating) two or more naturally occuring variables to find the relationships between them) |
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| Scientific studies of the brain and other parts of the nervous system |
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| What are the subdivisions of the Peripheral nervous system/ PNS? |
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Somatic Nervous Sstem/SNS
Autonomic Nervous system/ANS |
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connects to sensory and controls Skeletal muscles
(under concious control) |
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| Controls involuntary. Unconcious control (heart beat etc.) |
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| What are the 2 subdivisions of the ANS |
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Sympathetic nervous system(fight or flight)
Parasympathetic(calming body and conserving energy)
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