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| The science of behavior and mental process |
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| Psychology vs. Psychiatry |
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| Psychologists usually have a PH.D and specialize in research in a partricular field. Psychiatrists have a MD and are trained to treat mental / behavioral problems, they are also licenced to prescribe meds. |
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| lacks safe gaurds against confirmation bias and beleif preservency |
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| tendency to seek out information that supports hypothesis |
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| sticking to an initial beleif despite substantial evidence against it |
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| how the brain, nervous system, endocrine system, and genes play a role in determining behavior |
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We are information processing syetems, looks at a person's unique patter of interpretations, perceptions, expectations, beliefs and memories
Ex. Two people different interpretation of a bad experence |
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Looks at the behavior of humans and how they respond to their sorroundings
Stimuli in our enviornment ---> Behavior ----> Consequences |
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looks at different aspects that determine a persons behavior such as their unconcious mind, need to grow, and personality
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| looks at the interaction of heredity and enviornment which unfolds in a predictable pattern |
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| the power of a persons situation and cultural influences on their behavior |
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| an explination for a large number of findings in the natural world |
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| a testable prediction derrived from a scientific theory |
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used to develop a way of defining variables in an experement
Ex. Measuring Points scored to test basketball skills, points scored is the operational definition |
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| involves watching animals or people in an artificial and controlled situation such as a lab |
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the raltionship between variablesis studied, but without experimental manipulation
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variables are related in same direction
ex. More education = more income |
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variables related in opposite direction
Ex. High amounts of smoking = low levels of health |
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| an intensive study on one individual, useful when a researcher has little information on a certain subject |
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a form of descriptive research involving behavior assesment of people or animals in natural setting
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| making reasoned judgements about claims |
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| field that studiesthe interaction between biology, behavior and mental processes |
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| Central Nervous System (CNS) |
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| Consists of the brain and spinal cord |
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| chemical signals that pass info from one nerve to another |
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