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| understand behavior and mental processes and apply it to human welfare |
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| use technology to study how biological processes are affected by behavior and mental processes |
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| describe changes in behavior and mental processes that occur from birth through old age and try to understand causes/effects |
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| study mental abilities (sensastion/perception, learning/memory, etc); humans mentally manipulate info |
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| study similarities and differences among people |
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| clinical/counseling psychology |
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| conduct research on causes of mental disorders and offer services to help |
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| work to ensure psychological services for those who need it; homeless |
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| study effects of behavior on health, effects illness has on behavior/emotions |
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| conduct research and develop theories about teaching and learning |
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| test for/diagnose learning disabilities |
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| study ways people think about themselves and others and how people influence each other |
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| industrial/organizational psychology |
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| study leadership, stress, competition etc. efficiency and productivity of workers |
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| develop and use statistical tools to analyze data collected by other subfields |
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| work with athletes, relaxation |
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| assist in jury selection, evaluate mental competence of defendant |
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| study effects of environment on behavior and mental processes |
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| assumes that behavior and mental processes are largely shaped by biological processes |
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| assumes that behavior is due to evolution |
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| assumes that behavior and mental processes reflect constant/unconscious struggles within us |
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| behavior is primarily the result of learning it from other people |
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| how we take in, mentally represent, and story info, how we perceive and process it, and how all that is related to our behavior |
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| behavior determined by each person's capacity to choose how to think and act; unique to each person |
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| value personal goals rather than group |
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| think of themselves mainly as part of family or work group, cooperative effort |
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| watching without interfering as behavior occurs in natural environment |
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| extensive examination of behavior and mental processes in particular individual/group/situation |
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| questions that ask people about behavior/attitude/belief/opinion/intention |
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| examine relationships between variables in order to describe data fully, test predictions, evaluate theories, suggest new hypotheses |
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| researcher manipulates one variable and observes effect on another variable |
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| descriptions of exact operations or methods researchers will use in research |
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| group in experiment that receives no treatment or non-treatment (non-experimental) |
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| both participants and researcher don't know who gets the placebo or what to expect from experiment |
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| describe data (summarize/analyze, interpret) |
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| mathematical procedures that help psychologists make inferences about what data mean |
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| every member of population has equal chance of being chosen |
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| random way to distribute participants into experimental groups (flip a coin) |
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| statistically significant |
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| if correlation coefficient (difference between 2 means) is larger that it would be by chance alone |
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| how strongly one variable is related to another and direction of relationship (positive: variables move together, either up or down; negative: variables move in opposite directions) |
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| testable proposition about something you want to study |
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| set of statements to account for, predict, and suggest ways of controlling phenomena |
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| variable controlled by experimenter/the one manipulated |
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| affected by independent variable |
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| anything that may have affected dependent variable that isn't the independent variable; got in the way of indep var |
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| unintentional effect experiments may have on results |
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