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| Current definition of PSYCHOLOGY? |
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| the science of behavior and mental processes |
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| Curiosity, Skeptical, Humble |
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| Critical Thinking? Why is it important? |
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| Careful style of forming and evaluating knowledge. It is important because it has led to surprising findings and resulted in more effective policies. |
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-examines assumptions
-apprises sources of info
-discerns hidden biases
-evaluates evidence
-assesses conclusion |
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Inter-disciplinary study of brain activity linked with cognition
perception, thinking, memory, language |
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| natural selections - survival of the fittest. |
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| how culture impacts psychological processes |
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| characteristics or traits that are associated with a certain biological sex |
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| scientific study of human flourishing, and an applied approach to optimal functioning. |
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| Psychologies biggest Question? |
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| Nature vs. nurture issue. Traits and behaviors arising from interaction of nature and nurture |
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1)biological
2)psychological
3)Social cultural |
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Cause of behavior is your brain.
•To change behaviors, you have to change the way the brain functions |
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How does the enviroment impact the way you behave?
•Enviromental conditions like rewards/punishments |
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Based on mental process (Speaking, Thinking etc.)
•People act becasue they think; People thin becasue they are human |
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People are innately good and capable of choice.
•Main task of humans is to grow and develop |
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Behavior is result of unconscious dynamics, inner forces.
•Not based on observation |
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Behavior results from social and cultural influences.
•Ex: Kissing |
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Mental abilities evolve over millions of years
•Ex: Vision |
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| rely on systematically-obtained observations to draw conclusions about the world |
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| Why must psychology be empirical? |
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| To make sure its random, reliable, and accurate. So it can be VALID |
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| What can lead us to the wrong answer? |
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| Hindsight bias, overconfidence, and order in random events, |
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| A self-correcting process for asking questions and observing nature's answer. DESCRIBE, PREDICT, EXPLAIN. |
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| organizes observation and predicts behaviors or events. |
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| what you believe is going to happen, your prediction based on your theory and results you're expecting. |
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| measurement of behaviors or qualities |
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| Difference between objective and subjective? |
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| Objective data is strictly controlled, subjective implies an element of opinion or personal feeling. |
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| Why is replication important in science? |
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| If they get similar results, we can be confident that the results are reliable. |
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Examines one individual in depth.
STRENGHTS: Provides detailed (rich qualitative) information, Provides insight for further research
WEAKNESESS: cannot be used to generalize. |
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| Natural/Naturalistic Observation Method |
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Records behavior in natural environment. -Describes but does not explain behavior. -Can be revealing
Weaknesses: different opinions, subjects know when they're being observed |
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surveys and interviews in which people answer questions about their behavior or attitudes.
strength: random sampling, wording effect, many cases in less depth; self reported. |
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Experimental methods manipulate, or vary, factors to discover their effects.
strengths: control variables, clear conclusions
weaknesses: human error, artificial situations
research goal: medical ways, drugs & meds |
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A measure of the extent to which two events vary together, and thus of how well either one predicts the other.
Strengths: allows the researcher to investigate naturally occurring variables that maybe unethical or impractical to test
Weaknesses: Correlation does not allow us to go beyond the data that is given |
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| Importance of informed consent and debrief in psychology research.. |
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Informed consent: provides participants with sufficiently detailed information on the study so that they can make an informed, voluntary and rational decision to participate
debrief: occurs after releasing the info of the experiment. Its main objective is in targeting ethical problems within a study such as deception, and detecting and dealing with harm, distress and confusion of participants
respect for people's rights and dignity. |
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Scan
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Read
Recite
Review |
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