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science of mental and behavioral processes
Behavior-what we do
Mental Processes- what we think and what we feel |
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A = Affect
B = Behavior
C = Cognition |
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| 3 key figures in the development of psychological science, and know what major contributions they made |
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| Wilhelm Wundt, William James, and Sigmund Freud are just a few of the important figures in the development of psychological science |
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| Know what behaviorism is and how several schools of psychology emerged in reaction to it |
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| Behaviorism posited that psychology should focus solely on observable behavior; fields like cognitive psychology reintroduced mental concepts as important areas of interest |
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| distinguish basic and applied research |
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| Basic research aims to increase the body of knowledge, while applied research focuses on addressing specific issues or problems |
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| ways in which psychology is both similar too and different from the related fields of sociology and philosophy |
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| Psychology, sociology, and philosophy study some similar topics, but psychologists employ experimental methods that tend to differentiate them from scholars in other fields |
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| list and explain the steps of the scientific method |
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| The scientific method involves making an observation, forming a hypothesis, testing that hypothesis, and drawing a conclusion |
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| Know what a hypothesis is, and know how to formulate a good hypothesis |
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A hypothesis is a tentative statement about the relationship between variables
A good hypothesis both explains a phenomenon and fits well with existing facts |
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| Understand the logic of hypothesis testing |
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| Psychologists test their hypothesis by comparing groups of individuals to each other or by looking for relationships between variables |
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| Be able to differentiate experimental and correlation designs |
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Experimental designs exert control over variables and allow for causal inferences
Correlational designs are flexible because they look for preexisting relationships without exerting control but do not allow for causal inferences |
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| CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION |
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