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| The scientific study of behavior (overt) and mental (covert) processes. |
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| Using the scientific method |
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| Can be natural(involuntary)or intentional(voluntary) |
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Directly observable actions
examples:
- eating
- sleeping
- talking
- sneezing
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private, internal activities
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- Thoughts
- Memories
- Emotions
- Dreams
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Father of psychology
William Wundt set up the first psychology lab to study conscious experience in Germany
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| An empirical investigation structured to answer questions about the world in a systematic and intersubjective fashion(observers can be reliably cofirmed by multiple observers) |
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| A systematic approach to answering scientific questions |
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| In scientific research the process of naming and clasifying |
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| in psychology, understanding is achieved when the causes of behavior can be stated |
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| in psychology, an ability to accurately forecast behavior |
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| in psychology, altering conditions that influence behavior |
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in psychology, a type of reflection involving the support of beliefs through scientific explanation and observation
willingness to activly reflect on ideas
an ability to evaluate,compare,analyze,critique and synthesize infor |
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| Any false and unscientific system of beliefs and practices that is offered as an explanation of behavior |
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| unfounded belief held without evidence or in spite of falsifying evidence |
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| thought that is passive effortless and automatic |
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| thought that is active effortful and controlled |
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| Deliberatly reflective and active self guided study |
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| the practice of relating new infrmation to prior life experience |
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An active study-reading technique based on the steps
- Survey
- Question
- Read
- Recite
- Reflect
- Review
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| a person who knows how to maintain attention avoid distractions and activly gather information from lectures |
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| Practice spread over relativly short study sessions |
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| practice done in a long uninterupted study session |
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| evaluating learning by posing questions to yourself |
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| continuing to study and learn after you think you've mastered a topic |
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| Goals with clearly defined and measurable outcomes |
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| a searchable database that provides brief summaries of the scientific and scholarly literature in psychology |
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| The tendency to believe generally positive or flattering descriptions of oneself |
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| The tendency to remember or notice information that fite one's expectations while forgetting discrepancies |
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| The tendency to consider a personal description accurate if it is stated in general terms |
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a form of critical thinking based on careful measurement and controlled observation
- making observations
- defining a problem
- proposing a hypothesis
- gathering evidence/testing the hypothsis
- building a theory
- publishing the results
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| the preicted outcome of an experiment or an educated guess about the relationship between variables |
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| Defining a scientific concept by stating the specific actions or procedures used to measure it. for example, hunger might be defined as number of hours of food depervation |
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| a system of ideas designed to interrelate concepts and facts in a way that summerizes exiisting data and predicts future observations |
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