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| the scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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The process of measuring one's own thoughts and mental activities
Wilhelm Wundt |
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Focused on the study of the structure of the mind
Each experience can be broken down into individual sensations and emotions
Edward Titchener |
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Study of how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play
influenced by Darwinism
William James |
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Focused on perception and sensation of patterns and whole figures
Max Wertheimer |
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gaining insights into the repressed causes of behavior
Sigmund Freud |
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focuses on observable behavior only
John Watson
Ivan Pavlov |
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| Psychodynamic perspective |
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| modern version of psychoanalysis, focuses on gaining sense of self and discovery of other motivations behind a person's behavior |
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| focuses on observable behavior and operant conditioning |
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| belief that responses that are positively enforced will be repeated |
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| focus on free will, self actualization, self understanding and improvement |
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| how people think, remember, store, and use information |
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| Sociocultural perspective |
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| focuses on social roles, relationships, cultural norms, values, and expectations |
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| Biopsychological perspective |
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| the biological bases of behavior and mental processes and the structure and function of the nervous system |
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| the evolutionary reasons for universal mental traits that all humans share |
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| observing behavior in the subjects natural habitat |
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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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| a naturalistic observation in which the observer becomes a participant in the group being observed |
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| tendency of observers to see what they expect to see |
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Pro- availability of equipment, subject control
Con- artificial enviornment |
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an individual is studied in great detail
Pro-detail, used to study rare conditions
Con-Can't be generalized, is often biased |
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series of questions about a topic
Pro- confidential/anonymous, can gather lots of data on a large group of people
Con- representative sample, responses are not always accurate, courtesy bias |
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| randomly selected sample of subjects from a larger population |
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| participants answer questions based on what they think is the societal norm |
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| a measure of the relationship between 2 variables |
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| Positive correlation coefficient |
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| the two variables are increasing/decreasing in the same direction |
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| Negative correlation coefficient |
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| as one variable increases, the other decreases in the opposite direction |
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| Correlation coefficient close to zero |
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| means there is less correlation |
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| definition of a variable that allows it to be directly measured |
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| the tendency for the expected results to influence a participants behavior |
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| a harmless substitute given to the control group |
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| tendency of the experimenter's expectations to influence the results of the study |
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| the subjects do not know if they are in the experimental or control group |
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| neither the experimenter or the subjects know if the subjects are in the control or experimental group |
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