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| Helps us to understand people and behavior; it is the systematic,objective study of our mental activity and our behavior. |
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1. what am I being asked to believe or accept?
2. what evidence is provided to support the claim?
3. what are the most reasonable conclusions? |
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| The mind and body are seperate but intertwined. |
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Influences our psychological development.
Did thinking and behavior stem from a persons biological nature. Or was it nurtured via their education, experience and culture. |
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| The theory of the evolution of species by natural selection. |
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| A method to measure people's conscious experiences; Having to reflect and report on their thoughts about their personal experiences. |
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| Study subjective perceptions as unified whole, psychologist is max wertheimer, wolfgang kohler. |
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| Explores how peoples thoughts, feelings, and actions are similiar or different across countries. |
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| Institutional Review Board- Guardians of ethical guidelines. |
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| Privacy- must respect participants privacy. Confidentiality- info must be kept a secret unless otherwise told, informed consent- people must be told about the research they must choose to participate or not must give consent in writing. Deception- Researchers may use deception to misled participants but must notify the participants of the study goals and explain why the deception was used. Risks- researchers can not ask participants to endure unreasonable pain or discomfort unless asking the participant. |
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| Model of interconnected ideas and concepts that explain what is observed and make predictions about the future events. |
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| A specific testable prediction about theory |
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| Intensive examination of a few unique people or organizations e.g: people with brain injuries providing evidence about which parts of the brain are invoved in various psychological processes. |
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| Specific type of descriptive methods involving systematically assessing and coding observable behavior. E.G: gestures people make at an airport. |
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| enables us to examine how one factor is related to another factor. E.G: relation between drinking alcohol and showing impaired motor skills. |
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| Investiages what causes an outcome. |
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| The presumed cause of an experiment. |
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| The presumed effect of the experiment. |
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is an extraneous variable whose presence affects the variables being studied so that the results you get do not reflect the actual relationship between the variables under investigation
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A statement of the procedures or ways in which a researcher is going to measure behaviors or qualities.
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| Indentifying the basic parts, or structures of the conscious mind. Psychologist: wilhelm wundt and Edward Titchener. |
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| Describes how the conscious mind aids the adaptation to the environment. Psychologist are: William James, Charles Darwin. |
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| Understand how the unconscious thoughts cause psychological disorders. Psychologists: Sigmund Freud. |
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