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| First Psychology laboratory |
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| Structural psychology ofthe mind |
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| How instinct and function allows humans to flourish |
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| Personality theorist from Austria |
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| Little Albert (Generalization) |
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| Psychology should be objective science and studies behavior without reference |
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| Perspective that emphasized individual's potential for growth |
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| Believed brain activity is linked with cognition (Thinking, feeling, language, emotion, etc.) |
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| Skinner Box, Studied behavioral psychology |
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| Science of behavior and mental process |
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| Principal of Survival genes will pass on to future generations |
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| Different approaches; biological, psychological, social-cultural, to analyze any phenomenon |
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| Integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural anaylsis |
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| Explanations from body and brain |
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| How natural selection promoted survival genes |
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| Behavior springs from unconscious |
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| Process, store and retrieve information |
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| How thinking varies among situations and cultures |
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| Pure science aims to increase scientific knowledge |
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| Scientific study that aims to solve problems |
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| Branch that assists people in living and achieving greater well being |
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| Treats people with psychological disorders |
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| Help people with psychological disorders; can give prescriptions (MD) |
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| Tendency to believe, after seeing and outcome, that one would have foreseen it |
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| Humility, curiosity, skepticism; curiosty and passion to explore and understand without misleading or being mislead |
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| Tend to think we know more than we do |
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| Not blindly accepting. Examines assumptions; discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence and asses conclusions, "Smart thinking" |
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| Explantation using a set of principals that organizes observation and predicts behavior or events |
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| Testable prediction; often implied by a theory |
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| Statement of procedures used to define variables |
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| Repeating the essence of a study |
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| Process for asking questions and getting answers |
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| Observation which one person is studied in depth in hopes to reveal universal principles |
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| Technique for getting self-reported attitudes of a group of people. (Effected by: Word effects, sampling) |
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| All the cases in a group being studied |
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| Sample to fairly represent a population |
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| Observing behavior in naturally occuring situations without manipulation or control |
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| Stats of relationship between two things (+1 to -1) |
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| Graphed cluster of dots, each representing two variables. The slope of the ponits suggests relationship or lack of |
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| A perceived, but non-exsisten correlation |
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| Research method which an investigator manipulates one or more factors (independent variable) to observe the effect |
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| assigning participants to experiemental and control groups by chance |
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| Experiment procedure in which both the research staff and participant are ignorant of whether people recieve placebo or treatment |
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| Results coming from expectations alone |
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| group exposed to treatment |
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| Observe behavior; no control, misleading |
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| Detect relation; may not be cause/effect |
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| Explore cause/effect; not feasible. |
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| Difference between highest and lowest score |
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| Measurement of how much scores vary around the mean |
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| How likely it is to obtain a result by chance |
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| Behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a group of people; passed down |
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| Persistent learning and gathering of information overtime through storage and retrieval of info |
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| Retention of encoded info |
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| getting info out of storage |
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| immediate very brief recording |
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| activated memory, hold few items |
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| relatively permanent, limitless |
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| new understanding of short term memory, focusing on consious, |
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| Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort |
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| tendency for info to stay when studied overtime or practiced |
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| our tendency to recall best the last and first items |
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| Orangizing items into familiar units |
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| momentary memory of visuali |
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| momentary memory of auditory stimuli; 3-4 seconds |
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| Long-term potentiation (LTP) |
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| Provide neural basus for learning and remembering associations |
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| clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event |
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| Retention independent of concious recollection (Nondeclaritive) |
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| Memory of facts and knowledge one can conciously know and declare |
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| measure of memory which one can identify info and can retrieve it (Fill in the blank) |
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| Measure in memory which a person needs to identify items preiviously learned |
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| Measure that asses the amount of time saved when learning material a second time |
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| Activation; unconsious when associations in memory |
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| eeries sense that I have experience this before, cues may be triggered by previous experience |
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| tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with good or bad mood |
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| Mind is else where (Forgetting) |
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| Decay over time (forgetting) |
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| Inacess of store info (Forgetting) |
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| Confusing source (Distortion) |
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| Lingering effects of misinformation (Distortion) |
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| Belief-colored recollection (Distortion) |
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| Unwanted memories (Repression)(Distortion) |
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