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| the view that knowledge comes from experience via the senses, and science flourishes through observation and experiment |
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| an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind |
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| the science of behavior and mental processes |
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| became APA's first female president |
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| first woman to receive a psychology Ph.D |
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| focuses on how mental and behavioral processes function, how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, flourish. |
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| builds psychology's knowledge base |
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| tackles practical problems and solutions to those problems |
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| study, assess, and treat troubled people, conduct basic and applied research |
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| provides psychotherapy, medical doctors, licensed to prescribe drugs. |
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| the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it |
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| a statement of the procedures used to define research variables |
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| the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors |
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| the perception of a relationship where none exists |
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| fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion |
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| assigning participants to experimental and control conditions by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to different groups |
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| an experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ognorant about whether the research participants have received the treatment or placebo |
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| experimental results caused by expectations alone |
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| a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score |
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| a statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance |
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| a statistical measure of the extent to which two factors vary together |
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| determine the range of the distribution, relative to the measures of central tendency |
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| measures of central tendency |
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