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| A scientific approach that limits the study of psychology to measurable or observable behavior. |
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| biopsychological perspective |
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| Perspective that attributes human and animal behavior to biological events occurring in the body, such as genetic influences, hormones, and the activity of the nervous system. |
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| Study of one individual in great detail. Intensive description and analysis of a single individual or just a few individuals. In-depth study of a single person that can often provide suggestions for further research. |
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| A measure of the relationship between two variables. |
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| Experimental design useful in studies of the effects of drugs, in which neither the subject nor the researcher knows at the time of administration which subjects are receiving an active drug and which are receiving an inactive substance. |
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| Subjects in an experiment who are subjected to the independent variable. In a controlled experiment, the group subjected to a change in the independent variable. The group in an experiment that receives the effect of the independent variable being manipulated. |
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| The perspective on mind and behavior that focuses on the examination of their functions in an organism's interactions with the environment. |
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| Approach to psychology most noted for emphasizing that our perception of a whole is different from our perception of the individual stimuli. |
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| In an experiment, the variable that is manipulated to test its effects on the other, dependent variable. Variable in an experiment that is manipulated by the experimenter. Variable manipulated by a researcher to determine its effects on a dependent variable. |
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| The process of examining and measuring one's own thoughts and mental activities. |
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| Tendency of people or animals to behave differently from normal when they know they are being observed. |
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| Psychodynamic perspective |
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| Modern version of psychoanalysis that is more focused on the development of a sense of self and the discovery of other motivations behind a person's behavior than sexual motivations. View taken by Sigmund Freud and his followers suggesting that normal and abnormal behaviors are determined primarily by unconscious forces. |
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| In research, repeating a study or experiment to see if the same results will be obtained in an effort to demonstrate reliability of results. |
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| Sociocultural perspective |
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| Perspective that focuses on the relationship between social behavior and culture. |
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| Earliest approach in modern psychology, founded by Wilhelm Wundt; its goal was to analyze the basic elements of conscious experience. Early perspective in psychology associated with Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener, in which the focus of study is the structure or basic elements of the mind. School of psychology that stresses the basic units of experience and the combinations in which they occur. |
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