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| The scientific stufy of behavior and mental process |
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| Can be directly observed (crying) |
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| Cannot be observed (rememering) |
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| To measure and describe behaviors, gather empirical evidence and data |
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Description of Behavior
Understanding causes of Behavior
Forcasting Behavior
Altering conditions that affect Behavior |
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| Ability to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information |
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| "false" any unfounded system that resembles psychology and is not based on scientific testing |
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| The tendency to consider personal descriptions accurate if stated in general terms (horoscopes are general and apply to any one person) |
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| Six basic elements of scientific method |
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Making observations
Defining a problem
Proposing a hypothesis
Gathering evidence
Publishing results
Building a Theory |
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| Set up first lab to study conscious experience and renamed structuralism |
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| School of thought concerned with alalyzing sensations and personal experience into basic elements |
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Wrote Principals of Psychology
Functionalism |
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| School of thought that studied how the mind functions to adapt us to our environment |
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John Watson
A theory of learning based upon the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning |
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| View that combines cognition and conditioning to explain behavior, our thoughts influence our behaviors |
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| Studied thinking, learning, and perception in whole units not by analyzing experiences into parts |
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Freud came up with psycho analysis and believed our behavior is largely influenced by our unconscious thoughts
Psychodynamic Theory |
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| Treats psychological problems or does research on therapies and mental disorders |
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| Treats milder emotional and behavior disturbances |
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| To identify cause and effect relationships |
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| Conditions altered by the experimenter, causes for behavioral differences |
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| Demonstrates effects that independent variables have on behavior |
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| A fake pill or injection or condition |
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| changes in behavior that result from expectations that a drug or other treament will have some effect |
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| The group of participants that gets the independent variable |
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| The group of participants that does NOT get the independent variable |
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| only the subjects have no idea whether they get real treatment or placebo |
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| The subjects and the ecperimenters have no idea whether the subjects get real treament or placebo |
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| Self-fufilling prophecy- A prediciton that leads people to act in ways to make the prediciton come true |
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| observing the person or an animal in the natural environmental context |
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| Determine the degree of a relationship between two events, measures, or variables |
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-1.00 to +1.00
the sign indicates the direction of the relationship |
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| Low cost and can reach many people |
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| Courtesy Bias- tendency to give "polite" or socially desirable answers |
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| Focuses on human experience, problems, potentials and ideals |
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| a person's unique pattern of thinking emotion and behaviors |
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| Personal characteristics that have been judged |
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| Hereditary aspects of personlity including sensitivity, moods, irritablity |
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| Identified common traits and individual traits and made the distinction between cardinal, central, and secondary traits |
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Measured surface traits of a large number of people in an attempt to determine whether a trait is central or secondary
Came up with the "Big Five" factors |
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| The "Big Five" personlity factiors |
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Openess to experience
Conscientious
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism |
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| Four theoretical models of personality |
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Trait Theories
Psychodynamic Theories
Behavioristic Theories
Humanistic |
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| Attempt to learn what traits make up personality |
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| focus on the inner workings of personlity, especially conflicts and struggles |
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| focus on external conditioning and learning |
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| Freud's model of The structure of personality |
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Id (child)
Ego (adult)
Superego (parent) |
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| Instincts and urges, self-serving, irrational |
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| Executive, which directs ID energies-partially concious partially unconcious |
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| Judge or censor for thoughts and actions of the EGO-comes from our parents or caregivers |
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| Five stages of Freudian Theory |
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Oral
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| Stimulation of the mouth, if a child is overfed or frustrated oral traits will develop |
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| Ego developes, Harsh or lenient toilet training can make a child anal retentive or anal expulsive |
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| Child now notices and is physically attracted to opposite sex parent |
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| Psychosexual development is dormant |
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| Realization of full adult sexuality occurs here |
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| Dallard and Miller's Theory |
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| Propose that personality is made of habits, a learned behavior |
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| Drive, Cue, Response, and Reward (DCR2) |
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| Traits, qualities, potentials, and behavior patterns most charactericic of humans |
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| Ability to choose that is NOT controlled by genetics, learning, or unconscious forces |
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| Private perceptions of reality |
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| process of fully developing personal potentials |
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| temporary moments of self-actualization |
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| Scientifically studies positive personlity traits that contribute to happiness and well-being |
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| Rogers emphasizes the capacity for inner peace and happiness |
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| Flexible and changing perception of one's identity |
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| Total subjective perception of your body and personality |
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| Exists when there is a discrepency between one's experiences and self-image |
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| Idealized image of oneself (the person one would like to be) |
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