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Psych Test prologue and ch. 1
history, intro, studies
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/16/2009

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what does psychology date back to?
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Ancient Greek Philosophers
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"parents of psych"
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philosophy and biology
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"father of psychology"
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Wilhelm Wundt, first psych lab
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structuralism
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focused on the structure of the mind
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functionalism
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focused on the function of the mental and behavioral processes
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current definition of psychology
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science of behavior and mental processes, uses observation
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behavioral perspective
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how we learn observable responses
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cognitive perspective
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how we encode, process, store, and retrieve info
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neuroscience perspective
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how brain and body enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences, functions of different prts of brain
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psychodynamic perspective
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influences of conscious drives and conflicts on behaviors
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evolutionary perspective
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how natural selection promotes passing on of one's genes
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socio-cultural perspective
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how behavior and thinking vary across different situations and cultures
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behavior genetics perspective
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how much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences
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biopsycholsocial approach
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looks at the influences of psychological influences, social cultural influences, and biological influences on behavior or mental process
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hindsight bias
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belief, after learning an outcome, that you knew what the outcome would be
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overconfidence
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overestimating the accuracy of beliefs and judgments
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scientific attitude
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-curious skepticism
-humility, truth more than own ideas
-critical thinking, thinking w/o blindly accepting
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scientific method
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observations
theory
hypothesis
test
replicate
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descriptive research (3)
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case study, naturalistic observation, survey
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case study
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study on one person, observe
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pros and cons of case study
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pros: easy to follow one person, increases understanding of rare things that can be manipulated
cons: no control, only one person
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naturalistic observation
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multiple observations of multiple people, natural setting, no intervention by researcher
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pros and cons of NO
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pros: good for describing what people do, not biased.
cons: lack of control, lot of time
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survey
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questionnaires or interviews
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pros and cons of surveys
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pros: easy and quick
cons: wording of questions could be bias, poor sampling, unsure of cause
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correlation
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result of descriptive studies, relationship b/w 2 or more variable
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correlation coefficient
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statistical measure of the relationship
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correlation and causation
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correlations do not cause or equal causation
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experimental research (2)
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control of variable, manipulation, random
ex: experiment, quasi experiment
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experiment
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experiments on variables and conditions
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experiment pros and cons
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pros: lots of control, can determine causation. cons: biases possible, realistic?
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double-blind procedure
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participant and experimenter doesn't know what group they are in
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placebo effect
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when expectations influence behavior, ex: thinks getting real drug but not..same effects.
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quasi experiment
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control over certain variables, manipulation of others, random assign. of some, no random assign. of variable of interest
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quasi experiment pros and cons
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pros: some control can rule out other explanations, somewhat sure of causation
cons: less control than true experement, less certainty about cause and effect conclusions.
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experimental condition
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receive treatment
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control condition
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doesn't receive treatment
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independent variable
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manipulated
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dependent variable
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measured
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statistical reasoning
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use statistics to organize, summarize, and make inferences on data
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mode
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most frequent occurring score
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mean
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average
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median
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middle score
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range
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difference b/w lowest and highest scores
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standard deviation
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measure of how much scores vary around the mean
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