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| The need to consider unique characteristics of a culture where behavior takes place. |
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| 6500 bc 1st surgury, drilling of the skull |
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| study of functions and parts of living organisms, including human beings. |
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| how people change when aware of being watched. |
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| studys the physical basis of human and animal behavior, including the immune system, nervous system, and genetics. |
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| Modern perspective that focuses on memory, intellegence, perception, problem solving and learning. |
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| Sociocultural Perspective |
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| focuses on relationships between behavior and culture. |
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| the phenomenon in which the expectations of the participants in a study can influence thier behavior. |
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| the study of one individual in great detail. |
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| The science which studies the relationship beween a person's character and the morphology of the skull. |
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| the scientific study of behavior and the mental processes. |
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| The science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only. |
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| Third Force of Psychology |
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| Humanistic perspective, human potential, self actualization, and free will. |
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| Who founded Structuralism? |
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| Father of Scientific Psychology |
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| based on objectable observation or experience. |
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| definition of a variable of interest that allows it to be directly measured. |
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| the study of relationships between physical events and our psychological relationships with those events. |
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| also known as Human development Branch of psychology concerned with changes in cognitive,motivational.psychophysiological,and social functioning that occur throughout the human lifespan. |
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| Human potential, self actualization, and free will. |
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| diffrence between negative and positive correlation |
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positive- variables increase in the same direction
Negative- variable go opposite in order one increases as the other decreases. |
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| Renee Descartes the mind and the body do what? The mind and the body are separte entities that interact to produce sensations,emotions, and other conscious experiences. |
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| 1st african american woman to be awarded PhD? |
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| 1st woman to be awarded a PhD? |
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| 1st woman president of APA? |
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| What perspective of psychology did Charles Darwin develop? |
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| What does Wundt say about sensations and feelings? |
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Sensations: objective contents of consciousness.
Feelings:subjective contents of consciousness.
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| Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers are key developers in what perspective of psychology? |
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| What is Counterconditioning and who estalished it? |
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| Mary Cover Jones, old conditioning can be replaced or countered by new conditioning. |
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| Who developed the idea that unconscious processes influence our conscious thoughts? |
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| what is hypothisis? what is the dependent and independent variable in hypothesis? |
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Hypothesis- and educated guess, tentative explanation of a phenomenon based on observation.
Dependent variable- the effect the variable that can be measured
Independent variable- the variable that is manipulated the cause. |
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| Aristotle was the first to write about what? |
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| memory, sleep, learning, the senses, and dreams. |
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| Aristotle made the distinction between what? |
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| Who was the Russian physiologist who stumbled n the concept of classical conditioning? |
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| What did John Watson do to set precedents in advertising? |
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| placed woman in bikinis on a car because he understood the mind. |
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| who used a reaction time study to measure the speed of nerve impulses and establishe scientific methods can be used to study people? |
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| What conflict gives riseto dicussion of personality, intelligence, gender and sexuality, and psychological disorders? |
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| when an object is incomplete or a space is not completely enclosed. If enough of the shape is indicated, people precieve the whole by filling in the missing information. |
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| Occures when objects look similar to one another. people often preceieve them as a group or pattern. |
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