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| which psychologist's goal is to extend the principles of scientific psychology to practical, everyday problems in the real world |
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| applied psychologists study what? |
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| the scientific psychology of the practical everyday problems in the real world |
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| which psychologist primarily conduct experiments or collect observations? |
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| what type of psychologist diagnosis' and treats psychological problems but doesn't have a medical degree? |
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| what type of psychologist has a medicine degree? |
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| the definitiion of mind is |
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| the contents and processes of subjective experience: sensations thoughts and emotions |
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| behavior is definied how? |
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| very generally it's anything basically can even apply to the activites int eh cell |
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| psychology is the scientific study of what? |
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| what is the philisophical position of empiricism? |
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| that knowledge arises directly from experience |
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| who was associated with empiricism? |
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| Descartes thought that mind and body were.... |
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| what is the philosophical belief of nativism |
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| certain kinds of knowledge and ideas are inborn, innate |
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| which philosopher was associated with nativism? |
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| who was associated with structuralism? |
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| scientists seek the structure of the mind by breaking it down into elementary parts |
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| what is the purpose or goal of the response |
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| how changes in the environment change behavior |
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| each person's unique self capacity for growth |
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| the processes of knowing or perceiving |
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| a multistep technique that generates empirical knowldedge- knowledge derived from systematic observations of the world |
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| which research is the direct observation and description of behavior |
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| the behavior that occurs naturally |
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| a single case, usually one individual |
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| what do psychologists use to sample behvaior broadly? |
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| which research consistes of the methods that underlie the direct o bservation and description of behavior |
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| what tells us how well the results of an observation generalize to other situations or are representative of real life |
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| how much individual scores vary from the mean |
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| how do you find the standard deviation? |
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finding the difference of each score from teh mean
squaring those deviations
finding the average of the squareds
find the square root of that |
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| tells you wether two variables follow a pattern |
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| the investigatore actively manipulates the environment to observe its effect on behavior |
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| the behavior that is measured |
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variables that can't be controlled and change systematically
ex- using 2 different kinds of ads but one has the hidden message/ can't tell if the change is from the message or because it's a different ad |
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| when all confounding variables are controlled |
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| the particepents are kept blind about the particular group in which they've been placed |
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| neither participents or subjects know who has been assigned to the experimental and control groups |
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| the principle that before consenting to participate in research, people should be fully informed about any significant factors that could affct their wilingness to participate |
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| to clear up any misunderstanding that the person might have about the research and to explain in detail why certain procedures where used |
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| the nuerons that make initial contact with the environemtn |
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| internuerons are nuerons that |
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| have no direct contact to the world |
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| reflex pathways are primarily controlled by |
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| a person with spinal cord damage will |
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| still display reflexiv response |
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| store genetic material and act as the metabolic center of the nueron |
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| transmit info from one nueron to other nuerons and cells |
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| recieve info and carry infro into cell body |
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| insulate the dendrite and speed nueral transmission |
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| tiny areas on the surface of the soma that're sensitve to nuerotrasmitters |
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| the small gap between adjacent nuerons |
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| sodium and potassium are positive or negative |
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| excitatory message causes |
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| channels to open in the nueron's membrane and allow sodium to go in |
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| axon hillock is the point where |
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| all the excitatory and inhibitory potentials are combined |
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| an electrical signal that travels along the axon of a nueron |
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| how are action potentials generated? |
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| typical speed of action potential is |
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| between 2 and 200 miles per hour |
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| descriptive statistics help researchers |
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| describe the data obtained in a research study |
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| inferential statistics help researchers |
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| determine the liklihood that the pattern in the data collected occured by chance |
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| what is the maximum value for correlation |
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| define concepts in terms of how they will be measured |
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| operational definition must be able to |
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| people's behavior changes simply because they're being observed |
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| provide a value around which scores in a data set tenf to cluster |
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