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| psych approaches: neuroscience |
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| body & brain enable emotions |
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| psych approaches: evolutionary |
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| natural selection of traits perpetuates one's genes |
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| psych approaches: behavior genetics |
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| genes & environment influence our individual differences |
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| psych approaches: behavioral |
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| how we learn observable responses (scientific methods)-> association no free will only environment |
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| psych approaches: psychodynamic |
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| aka psychoanalytic; behavior springs from unconcious drives & conflicts |
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| psych approaches: cognitive |
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| encode, process, store & retrieve info -> concious thoughts |
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| psych approaches: sociocultural |
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| behavior & thinking vary across situations & cultures |
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| psych occupats: biological |
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| psych occupats: developmental |
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| changing abilities (womb-tomb) |
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| psych occupats: cognitive |
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| encode, process, store & retrieve info -> concious thoughts |
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| psych occupats: personality |
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| investigating our persistent traits |
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| how we view/affect one another |
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| psych occupats: industrial/organizational |
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| study, assess, treat troubled ppl |
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| medical doctor that can prescribe drugs to treat psych. disorders |
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| can only perform non-medical treatment |
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"i-knew-it-all-along" phenomenon
(feeling that one could have forseen the outcome after the fact) |
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| explanation using an intergrated set of principles that organizes & predicts observations |
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| a statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables |
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| methods of desc: case study |
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| an observable technique: one person is studied in depth in hope of revealing universal principals |
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| used in descriptive & correlation studies: looks at cases in less depth (self-reported) wording of questions can sometimes hurt results |
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| methods of desc: sampling |
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| random sample fairly represents population |
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| methods of desc: naturalistic observation |
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| behavior naturally occurs without maniplulating the situation |
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| tendency to overestimate the extent in which others share our beliefs |
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| indicates possibility of cause & effect relationship but doesn't prove causation |
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when we believe there is a relationship btwn 2 things we are likely to recall instances that confirm our belief
(ex: depicting a pattern when there isn't one) |
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| contrasts w/ experimental condition & serves as a comparison for evaluating effect of treatment |
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| exposes participants to treatment (one version of independent variable) |
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| effect on behavior or mental process |
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| mathmatical average (add #s together & divide by amount of #s) |
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| computed measure of how much scores vary around mean |
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