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knowledge comes from experiences thru the senses
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| research method, which observers examine, record, and describe their own internal mental process |
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| functionalism (KNOW EXTRA) |
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| view in psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function (EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN UR BRAIN AND URSELF HAPPENS FOR A REASON) aims to see how you mind deals w/ problems |
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| view that psychology should be an objective science w/o reference to the mind |
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| the science of behavior and mental process |
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| how brain and body are related to thinking, emotions, and behavior |
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| how certain traits allow us to adapt to the environment and pass on our genes |
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| how we encode, process, and retrieve info |
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| how differences in genetics & environmental influence individual differences |
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| how behavior varies across situations & cultures |
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| how we learn observable responses |
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| how unconscience drives & conflict influence thinking and behavior |
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| pure science, that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base |
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| scientific study that aims to solve practical problems |
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| studies, assesses, & treats people w/ psychological problems |
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| a branch of medicine dealing w/ psychological dissorder |
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| therapeutic technique based on Freudian or other psychoanalytic perceptions |
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| the tendency to believe after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it; people are overconfident in what they believe |
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| any measurable condition, events, characteristics, or behaviors that are controlled or observed in a study |
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| a concept or variable is defined by the methods used to measure it |
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1) formulate a hypothesis
2) design the study
3) collect data
4) analyze data and draw conclusions
5) report findings |
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| an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations based on previous observations |
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| observational technique in which one person is studied in depth |
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1) gives a full picture of a person
2) can use for unusual cases
3) can use to disprove general statements |
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1) basic research
2) applied science
3) clinical psychology
4) psychiatry
5) psychoanalysis |
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| disadvantages of case study |
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1) may not be representative of the population
2) highly subjective |
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naturalistic observations
(KNOW ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES!!) |
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| observing & recording behavior in naturally occurring situations w/o trying to manipulate/control the situation |
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| a technique for ascertaining the self reported attitudes or behaviors of people, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of them |
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| a sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal change of inclusion |
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| cannot validy draw cause and effect conclusion |
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| a statistical measure of the extent to which 2 factors vary together |
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| researcher manipulates one or more variables under carefully controlled conditions and observes changes in behavior or mental processes |
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| factor that is manipulated to see its effect |
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| factor thot to be effected by the independent variable |
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| condition that exposes the subjects to the treatment |
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| condition that serves as a comparison for evaluation the effect of the treatment |
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| a statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance |
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| DIFFERENCE BTWN GROUPS IS NOT DUE TO THE FLUCTUATION OF CHANGE |
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| KNOW HISTORY OF STUFF,ORDER IT HAPPENED, PPL |
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| scientific psychology started |
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| in germany in the end of the 1800s |
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| DID BAD GETTING A RANDOM SAMPLE, IT WAS BIAS |
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| A GROUP OF PPL THAT ALL FALL UNDER ONE CATEGORY, (RESEARCHER DEFINES POPULATIONS) |
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