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Understanding all that we do;scietific studies of behavior and physiological processes |
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Phiolosophy and physiology
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| Where/When Psychology was born |
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University of Lepizig in 1879 |
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| Positions of structuralism |
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| Notion that psychology is to analyz consciousnees into basic elemnts/invesitigate how they work |
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| Careful systematic self-observation of ones conscious experience |
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| Psychology should investigate funtions/purposes of consciousness than structure |
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| Psychoanalytic"personality, motivation,mental disorders by focuss on unconsious behavior."fred" |
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| "john b watson",should study only observable behavior;B.F. Skinner insisted mental issues couldnt be studied scientifically |
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| qualities of freedom,potential for personal growth, diverse of behaviorism & psychoanalitic theory became school of humanism |
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| Mental process in acquring knowlege.theorists argue psychology must include study of internal mental events.Mental process infuences how we behave |
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| adaptive values over generations |
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| pos,adaptive,creative,fulfilling aspects of human existence |
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| Steps of Scientific Method |
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1. form hypothesis
2. design study
3. collect data
4. analyze/conclude
5. report findings |
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| research method,investigator manipulates a variable |
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| Independent Variable (IV) |
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| Variable affected by manipulation"whats being measured" |
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| recieves special treatment in regard to (IV) |
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| Doesnt recieve special treatment given to expiermental group |
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| Confoundings of Variables |
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| Two variables linked in a way its difficult to sort specific affects |
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| All subjects have equal chance of being assigned |
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| exisits when two variables are related to each other |
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| Co vary in opposite direction |
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| Co vary in same direction |
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| Index of degree of relationship |
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| Careful observation of behavior without interveing with subjects |
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| Behavior is altered by presence of behavior |
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| In depth investigation of individual subjects |
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Questions/interviews to gather information
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Easy data collection
Low participants |
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| evalution,diagnosis,treatment of indivduals with psyco disorders/less severe behavior |
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| Overlaps clinical specialize in both areas mainly family, children, marital, etc |
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| Industrial and Orginizational Psychology |
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| Peform in the buisness industry, running human resources departments, etc |
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| Provide emotional, social development for children in school |
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| Not representative of population from which its drawn |
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| Experience some change even though empty/fake treatment |
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| Give social aprroved answers to questions about oneself |
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| Evaluation of a person, object spills over to influence more ratings |
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| Expectations or preferences infulence results obtained |
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| Forebrain,Midbrain,Hindbrain |
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| Breathing, circulation, muscle ton |
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| "little brain"back surface of the brain |
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| Between hindbrain and forebrain |
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| sensory info except smell |
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| hunger, fight or flight, love |
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| Between cerebral cortex and deaper subcortial areas |
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| Righ and left halves of cerebrum |
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occipital
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| Higher order of thoughts " doesnt stop growing until the age of 25" |
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| Non-verbal, music, recognition |
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expereince sculpts featuresd in brain
damage/destruction to tissue can lead to neural reorganization
adult brains cont to grow new neurons |
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