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| the science of behavior and mental processes, a definition that reflects psychology's origins and history |
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| The idea that mind and body were separate entities that interact to produce sensations, emotions, and other conscious experiences. |
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| Inborn nature of the individual or the environmental influences that nurture the individual. |
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Founder of Psychology
Established first psychology research laboratory
Published psychology text in 1874 |
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Structuralism
used introspection |
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First major school of thought
Idea that our conscious experiences could be broken down into elemental structures of sensations and feelings |
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| Subjects view stimulus and then reconstruct their sensations and feelings immediately after viewing it |
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| study of the adaptive and practical functions of human behavior |
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| the role of the unconscious conflicts in determining behavior and personality. |
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Behaviorism
focus on overt behavior |
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| Stimulus Organism Response |
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| observable behaviors that could be objectively measured and verified. |
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| Behavior of human of the human being |
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| Emphasizes the importance of self-determination, free will, and human potential. |
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| Linking biological factors to behavior |
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| Psychodynamic Perspective |
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| emphasizes on the importance of unconscious influences, early life experiences, and interpersonal relationships |
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the study of positive emotions and psychological states
positive individual traits |
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| focuses on the important role of mental processes in how people process and remember information, develop language, solve problems and think |
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| The effects of culture on behavior and mental processes |
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| application of principles of evolution including natural selection to explain psychological processes and phenomena. |
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| Everything that happens has a cause and therefore can be determined (defined/calculated) |
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| Fake or false science that makes that makes claims based on little or no scientific evidence |
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| The ability of a test to produce consistent results when administered on repeated occasions under similar conditions |
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| the ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure |
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| a complete set of something-- people, nonhuman animals, objects, or events |
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| a selected segment that very closely parallels the larger population being studied on relevant characteristics |
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| the process of assigning participants to experimental conditions so that all particapnts have an equal chance of being assigned to any of the conditions or groups in the study |
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| Process in which subjects are selected randomly from a larger group such that every group member has an equal chance of being included in the study |
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A factor or variable other than the ones being studied that, if not controlled, could affect the outcome of an experiment
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| a factor that can vary, or change, in ways that can be observed, measured, and verified |
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| A selected segment of the population used to represent the group that is being studied; a subset of a population |
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| psychology students, college students, easy to obtain groups |
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Define what we are studying
bullying-hitting, pushing, not tag.. |
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| inform the particpant on the purpose of the study |
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| obtain information at the conclusion of the study |
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| percise calculation of how strongly related two factors are to each other |
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| questionnare or interview used to investigate the opinions behaviors or characteristics of a particular group |
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| a numerical indication of the magnitude and direction of the relationship between two variables |
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the thing you are testing
(happy vitamin) |
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what you are measuring
(happiness behaviors) |
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| generic vitamin/ placebo pill takers |
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| no idea what they are doing (don't bias your study) don't tell them purpose |
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| Participants and observers don't know about study |
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mean, median, mode, bell curve
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| math, 95% confident results are valid |
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