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| father of psychology, established the first psych lab in Germany in 1879, used introspection |
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| Functionalism, taught stream of consciousness |
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| Psychodynamic Approach, psychoanalysis |
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| Est. behaviorism, rejected subjectivity of structuralism and functionalism |
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| Radical behaviorism, operant conditioning |
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| focuses on the uniqueness of human beings and their capacity for choice, growth, and psychological health |
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| emphasizes that individuals perceive objects and patterns as whole units and that the perceived "whole is more than the sum of its parts" |
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| attempting to describe the structure of the mind in terms of the most primitive elements of mental experience |
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| how mental processes help humans adapt to survive |
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| systematized study and theory of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, emphasizing the interplay between unconscious and conscious motivation |
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| analysis of internal and unconscious forces |
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| only observable behavior is valid data to study |
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| independent variable (IV) |
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| variable the experimenter manipulates |
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| variable the experimenter measures for change |
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| group exposed to the IV/treatment |
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| group exposed to the same experimental environment but not to the IV |
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| statistical measure of a relationship |
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| systematic explanation of a phenomenon using a set of principles that organizes and predicts observations |
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| a specific, testable prediction derived from a theory |
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| method of discovering knowledge about the natural world based in making falsifiable predictions (hypotheses), testing them empirically, and developing peer-reviewed theories that best explain the known data |
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