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Psychology
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
01/12/2014

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Availability Heuristic
Definition
Cognitive short cut without using all of your brain power
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Social Influence
Definition
Taking cues from others on how you should act
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Cognitive Dissonance
Definition
The need for consistency and the desire to be able to predict others
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Psychology's History
Definition
Psychology has been around for hundreds of years before it was a recognized science
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Psychology
Definition
Originally the study of mental life
Now known as study of behavior and mental process
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Behaviorism Psychology
Definition
People are programmed in a certain way based on reward and punishment
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Humanistic Psychology
Definition
Individual choices and we don't behave in the same way
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Nature vs. Nurture
Definition
Biology vs Experience
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Biopsychoscoial Approach
Definition
Biological, environmental, and psychological influence on behavior
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Biological
Definition
Biological predictors
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Developmental
Definition
Change over time
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Cognitive
Definition
The way you think
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Personality
Definition
Different personality traits
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Social
Definition
How you behave in groups
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Clinical
Definition
Treat and study disorders
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Counseling
Definition
Talking (no disorder)
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Educational
Definition
In schools
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Industrial/Organizations
Definition
Study of psychology of psych in business
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Psychology Services
Definition
Clinical, counseling, psychiatry
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Experimental Psychology
Definition
Biological, developmental, Cognitive
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Independent Variable
Definition
The variable that changes
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Dependent Variable
Definition
The unmanipulated (outcome)
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Experimental Group
Definition
Group that gets treatment
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Control Group
Definition
Baseline group
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Correlation
Definition
No grouping variable
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Quasi-Experimental
Definition
Have independent but no manipulation
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Experiment
Definition
Research method where investigators manipulate one or more factors to observe the effect, must have random group assignment
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Theory
Definition
General idea supported by lots of research
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Hypothesis
Definition
A more specific theory that can be tested
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Research
Definition
Collecting data from participants
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Cross-Sectional
Definition
Surveys only give at one time
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Repeated Cross-Sectional
Definition
Given to different groups at two time points
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Longitudinal
Definition
Given to one group two times
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Experimental Survey
Definition
Changing part of the survey and expecting a different outcome
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Naturalistic Observation
Definition
Step one in research, observe in the natural environment
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Case Study
Definition
Study of one person
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Basic Research
Definition
Original idea, not meant to be applied
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Applied Research
Definition
Takes ideas and makes them apply to the real world
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Random Sample
Definition
Representative of the population
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Random Assignment to Condition
Definition
Makes groups equal, required to be an experiment
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Ethics
Definition
Must be reviewed by an ethics board
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Distribution of time
Definition
Space effectively
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Think Critically
Definition
Learn Concepts rather than definitions
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Overlearn
Definition
Over learn
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Eliminate Answers
Definition
Cross out the answers that don't make sense
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Introspection
Definition
Focusing on inner sensations, images, and feelings
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Cognitive Neuroscience
Definition
The study of brain activity linked with mental activity
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Behavior
Definition
Anything that a living organism does
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Levels of Analysis
Definition
The differing complementary views from biopsychosocial, for analyzing and given phenomenon
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Hindsight Bias
Definition
Tendency to believe that after learning an outcome, that we would have foreseen it
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Overconfidence
Definition
After seeing an answer we feel over confident
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Empirical Approach
Definition
Letting the facts speak for themselves
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Operational Definition
Definition
A statement of the procedures used to define research variables
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Population
Definition
A group being studied, from which samples must be drawn
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Illusory Correlation
Definition
The perception of a relationship where none exist
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Double Blind Procedure
Definition
Neither the participants nor the research assistants know which group gets the placebo
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Placebo Effect
Definition
Results created by the participants belief in a treatments healing power
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Culture
Definition
Shared ideas and behaviors that one generation passes into the next
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SQ3R
Definition
Survey, Question, Read, Rehearse, Review
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