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| The Scientific study of behavior and the mind |
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| Natural Phenomena is the result of natural processes |
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| It Depends, No result is absolute |
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| Research progress is dependent on accuracy |
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| Correlation does not mean causation |
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| Variation among individuals Reflects heredity and envioroment |
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| The best predictor of future behavior is past experience |
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| Some statements In psyc are reflect stronger evidence then others |
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| Extended scientific debate where 2 opposing sides strive for increased understanding |
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| A cultures concepts on how the world works |
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| The capacity to contemplate our own existance |
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| Greek Philospher who began to find natural processes to phenomena |
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| Testable tangible data obtained through testing |
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| Came p with the Idea of dualism, body and soul are separate but together, (animals have emotions and therefore souls argument) |
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| Nothing exists but energy and matter, all behavior is explainable |
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| Tabula Rasa, a child is a blank slate |
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| Showed Humans could be studied in a more scientific way |
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| Who provided The theoretical foundation of psychology? |
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Structuralism (base parts)
Functionalism (doesn't matter what it is as long as we know what it does) |
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Behaiviorism,gestalt,cognitive,Biological.
Evolutionary, Psycodynamic, Humanistic |
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| First U.S. psych department |
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All behaivior is reflexive,
Stimulus Response |
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| Matt Wertheimer, The mind must be understood as a whole not as parts. |
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| Focuses on memory, Studied on inference |
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| Brain Structure Perspective |
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Brain processes, Bio chemical process
Genetic factors |
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| explains an organisms adaptation to changing envioroment |
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| all social behaivior is a result of natural selection |
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| Unconscious processes Unresolved past conflict (most activity we are unaware of) |
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| Sex sex sex sex sex, every one just cares about getting fucked and caring about how pther people will judge that fucking. pretty sad stuff Eh? |
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| Like Freud with less emphasis on the whole "fucking"thing |
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Focuses on human choice and psychological health and growth
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| Intraversion and extraversion |
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ESSAY IMPORTANT
psych method |
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1. Make observation
2. Collect data
3.Hypothesis,test,repeat
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| Accepted as true but is not an explanation |
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| accepted scientific explanation |
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encorperate existing facts, testable
are supported by new research |
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| Simplest or fewest assumptions |
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| Memory, its existence is known but is intangible |
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Design
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data collection |
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| defines a variable in a way that it is measured |
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Right to privacy
lack of harm
Deception |
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| description of individuals without being able to investigate |
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| Unintentional or intentional influence of results. |
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| Subject Reacts in the way the investigator believes they are wanted to react |
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| Descent with modification |
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| segment of dna molecule containing a code for a specific kind of protien |
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| indicator of a populations genetic make up |
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| Organisms complete make up |
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| Measurable characteristic of an organism |
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| Drift, migration, selective mating, natural selection |
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| Receives and delivers sensory information, messages glands |
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| nerve cells that make up systems |
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| Body nerves in appendages |
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| In peripheral nervous system recieves sensory information |
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| Cell body, axon,Dendrites,nucleuos |
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| take care of inner working of nervous system |
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| 43 pairs bilaterally symmetrical connect to spine |
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| Fight or Flight, burns energy |
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| social readjustment rating scale |
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| Spinal cord bundle of axons |
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| Neuropsycological testing |
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| Distraction and stimulation, electrical recording and brain imaging |
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| Medula controls autonomic function,pons relay point,cerebellum micro computer controls rapid motion, |
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| Higher cognitive thinking |
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| Routes sensory information |
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| pain pleasure emotional motivation |
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| helps coordinate behaviors to satisfy emotional urges in hyper thalamus, |
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Occipital-vision
temporal-sound
pariatel-sensory info |
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