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| who was the founder/father of psychology and what did he focus on? |
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| Wihelm Wundt/ structuralism |
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| who is associated with functionalism? |
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| who is associated with natural selection? |
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| what are the psychology approaches? |
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| biological, behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, evolutionary, socialcultural |
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| he was a horse who could solve math problems but it was concluded that he was only responding to subtle cues |
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| who is associated with behavioral approach and what is it? |
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| skinner & watson/ focuses on observable behavioral responses i.e what we do is the ultimate test of who we are |
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| who is associated with psychodynamic approach and what is it? |
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| freud/emphasizes unconcious thought |
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| who is associated with humanistic approach and what is it? |
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| carl rogers & abraham maslow/ emphasizes persons positive qualities, the capasity for positive growth, and freedom to choose destiny, SELF-UNDERSTANDING |
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| who is associated with the cognitive approach and what is it? |
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| jean piaget/views the mind as an active and aware problem solving system |
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| who is associated with evolutionary approach and what is it? |
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| charles darwin, david buss/survival of the fittest to explain human behavior |
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| what is the sociocultural approach? |
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| examines the ways in which the social and cultural environment influence behavior |
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| what are the areas of specialization? |
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| physiological/behavioral neuroscience, developmental, cognitive,personality, social, industrial and organizational, clinical and counseling, health, community, school/educational, environmental, forensic, sports, cross-cultural, psycology of women |
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| what is physiological/behavioral neuroscience psychology? |
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| physical processes, brain |
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| what is developmental psychology? |
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| what is cognitive psychology? |
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| memory, attention, conciousness, info. processing |
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| groups influence on individuals beh. |
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| industrial & organizational psych |
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| clinical and counseling psych |
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| diagnose/treat people with psycological issues |
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| psychological factors, lifestyle, healthcare |
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| provide accessible care for ppl with psych problems |
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| childs adjustment in school setting |
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| interaction of physical envir. and individual |
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| psychological concepts in legal system |
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| uses psychology principles to enhance sport performance |
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| cultures role in behavior, thought and emotion |
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| description- natural observation and surveys and interviews and case studies// correlational-examining 2 variables thought to be related to one another |
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| correlation does not equal ____ |
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control vs. experimental group
independent & dependent variable
random assignment
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placebo being sugar pill
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single blind- participarnt has no idea what condition are in
double blind- participant and experimenter have no idea of condition |
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| statistically significant |
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<.05 is concidered statistically significant
<.01 is really great ! |
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set of research ethics principles for human experimentation set as a result of theSubsequent Nuremberg Trials at the end of the Second World War.
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| what to know about experiments |
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know sources and look for replications, know who samples are, know about ethical principle/guidelines |
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| what makes a good experiement? |
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| internal & external validity, experimental realism, mudane realism, reliablity scale |
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| take all studies on subject out there and analyze |
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| international review board approves for human research |
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| actual observed characteristics |
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| in charge of automatic needs (heartrate, bloodpressure) |
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| deodrite--soma--axon--axon terminal |
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| what are nerve cells specialized in |
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| surrounds axon and flows information |
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| dendrites--cell body--axon--terminal buttons--synapse--dendrites |
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| frontal, pariental, occipital, temporal |
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| what is the frontal lobe? |
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| in charge of planning, decision making, personality, irrationallization |
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| spatial location, attention, motor control |
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| hearing, language processes, memory |
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connects left and right brain
left-emotion
right-facts |
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| theory of learning that focuses soley on observable acts |
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| when a connections between two events is made |
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| learning that takes place when a person obswerves and imitates anothers behavior |
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| a neutral stimulous becomes associated with a meaningful stimulous and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response |
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| whos experiment is associated with classical conditioning |
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| the sickness goes away when doritos is presented repeatedly without curvey road |
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| strength of sickness increases rapidly |
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| responding to a similar stimulous according to conditioning i.e little albert scared of all small furry things |
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| who believed in radical behavoiorism |
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| associative learning in which consequence of a behavior chnges the probblility of the behaviors occurence |
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| presentation of an event which increases liklihood i.e allowance for doing chores |
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| removal of an event which increases the liklihood i.e no chores for good grade |
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| giving something to decrease likelihood of a behavior occuring i.e time out |
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| taking something away to decrese liklihood of behavior i.e no cell phone |
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| unreinforced learning that is not immidiately reflected in behavior i.e rats in maze |
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| a form of problem solving in which an organism develops a sudden insight into or understanding of the problems solution "OH YAH moment" |
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| learning through expericen that outcomes are not controllable |
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| the process of receiving stimulus energies from the environment i.e patterns of light and dark, lines, colors, angles |
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| the brains process of organizing/interpreting sensory information to give it meaning i.e a cube, simple components are organized into a recognizable form |
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