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| What was Wundt more intrested in? |
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| What was James more intrested in? |
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| The mind's function and the conscience expirence |
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| Why should introspection not be used |
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| Because it's not a good research tool |
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| what did sigmund freud emohasized what |
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| the conflicts of early childhood |
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| what did the humanists focus on? |
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| a person's unique expirence (need for acceptance) |
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| what are the 3 basic levels of analysis? |
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| biological, psychological, social- cultural |
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| the brain and biological systems |
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| how genes and environments interact to produce |
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| define psychodynamic view |
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| what is the difference between behaviorism and cognitive view |
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| behaviorism is to learn while cognitive view is processing and interpreting information |
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| define social cultural perspective |
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| behavior variation across cultures and situations |
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| psychology's views are often _________. |
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| what is the difference between basic and applied research? |
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| basic research adds to the general knowlege base whilen applied helps solve practical problems |
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| what involves basic and applied research? |
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| what are humans attracted to? |
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| how does the scientific method begin? |
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| with the attitude of skepticism |
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| what are the 4 steps of the scientific method? |
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| ID theory, write a hypothesis, do the research, and replicate |
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| what are the 3 different types of discriptive studies? |
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| case studies, surveys, naturalistic observations |
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| what makes correlational studies different than descriptive studies |
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| correlational studies use surveys to collect data and analyze it further |
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| what are the pros and cons of naturalistic observations? |
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+ seeing the true side of your subjects
- waiting forever to get your research done |
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| how strongly 2 variables are related |
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| give an example of how a correlational study works |
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| church attendence and happiness |
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| define correlation coefficient |
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| the strength of the relationship on a number scale |
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| what are the pros of correlational studies |
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| it allows us to make predictions and it's about likelihood and not certainty |
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| what do expirements allow researchers to do? |
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| they allow them to control all variables except the one of intrest |
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| what 3 things do psychological theories do |
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| They organize scientific observations, explain observed facts, and generate hypotheisis |
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| What condition refers to the group that recieves the treatment? |
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| what refers to the group that does not recieve tratment? |
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| what are the positives and negitives about descriptive research methods |
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| Descriptive research methods can expand knowledge about behaviors and help generate hypotheses, but they are NOT good for explaining behaviors and why they occur. |
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| the petuitary glad has responsibility for regulating ___________. |
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| what muscles are controlled by the somatic nervous system |
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| the work groups that neurons cluster into are... |
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| most of the signals neurons recieve are... |
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| what can detect brain activity by afmitting electrical signals |
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| what part of the brain effects language comprehension |
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| what part of the brain causes you to automatically wake up? |
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| what part of the brain causes seizures? |
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| what side of the brain constructs theories people offer to explain their own behavior |
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| Ivan Pavlov pioneered the study of |
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| Wilhelm Wundt was both a ______________and a _______________. |
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| physiologist and a philosopher |
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| A unified understanding of explanations provided by the neuroscience, cognitive, social-cultural, and other psychological perspectives is most clearly provided by: |
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| a biopsycosocial approach |
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| Which perspective would be most relevant to understanding the role of spaced practice on long-term memory of information? |
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