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Several types of tests measure various elements of human behavior such as abilities, interests, personality

P: Gain direct insight into parts of a person’s behavior
C: Doesn’t provide accurate rep. of person’s abilities/personality

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Testing Method

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conduct in-depth investigations of individual persons/small groups

P: insight into specific cases
C: isolated circumstances that can’t be replicated; may distort experience; unintentionally encouraging to answer in a certain way

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Case-Study Method

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group observed at intervals over extended period of time
P: enable researchers to see change overtime
C: time-consuming, $$$

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Longitudinal method

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compare diff. and similarities among ppl. in diff age groups at given time

P: less time-consuming than longitudinal method
C: diff. between members can’t be contributed to age/development

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cross-sectional method

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observe behavior of ppl./animals in natural habitat

P: witnesses people in non-artificial settings
C: no control over setting/events that occur

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Naturalistic-observation method

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administer a treatment, then observe participants to show how treatment influences behavior, if at all

P: able to manipulate variables to determine cause/effect; lab setting enables researcher to monitor and record all stages of the experiment

C: lab may not reflect real-life conditions; volunteer bias, researcher bias, placebo effect

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Experimental method

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Participants observed in lab settings

P: enables researchers to control certain aspects of the study
C: labs can’t duplicate real-life environments

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laboratory-observation method

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peoople respond to series of qs ab specific subject

P: enables info gathered ab large # of ppl.
C: ppl. not honest; survey samples not rep. of population as a whole

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survey method

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unconscious mind plays role in everything;
jung, adler, freud
unconscious, unresolved repressed past issues

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psychodynamic

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behavior is the result of reinforcement, punishment, and observation
often we mimic our parents’ or friends’ depression; we like the attention

skinner, pavlov, bandura, thorndike, watson

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behaviorism

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focuses on unique humans issues such as self hope, love, creativity, nature, being, individuality
barriers to self actualization, ideal self and actual self not in congurence

rogers; maslow

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humanism

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how ppl. perceive remember, think, speak, and solve problems
irrational thoughts lead to depression and anxiety
piaget, chomsky, baddeley, ellis

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cognitive

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we’re result of 1000 yrs. of adaptation, survival of the fittest; anxiety is a defense mechanism learned in the wild; darwin

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evolutionary

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focus on bio and medicinal treatments; medical model, imbalance of NTMs, genetics, hormones, brain structure

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biomedical

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what is being tested in an experiment; stands alone and can’t be altered by other variables in an experiment; the cause

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independent variable

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what is being measured in an experiment; effect in the research study; the effect

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dependent variable

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language and logic side of the brain

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left brain

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creativity and spatial awareness

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right brain

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connector of the two brain hemispheres

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corpus callosum

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covers the brain; the outermost brain later

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cerebral cortex

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turns on the fight or flight; loss of appetite, sweats and shakes, nerves

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sympathetic nervous system

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turn off/calm fight or flight; calming down, drowsiness

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parasympathetic nervous system

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chemicals that allow neurons to communicate with each other throughout the body; in the nervous system

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neurotransmitters

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chemical messengers released from endocrine glands that travel through the blood system to influence the nervous system to regulate behaviors such as aggression, mating, and parenting of individuals; ENDOCRINE*

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hormones

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stimulates hunger; feeding center; GABA*** think yo gabba gabba makes u hungry

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lateral hypothalamus

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hunger suppressing; glucose regulation; think the rat that kept venting food in its mouth when this got damaged

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ventromedial hypothalamus

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speech production; makes words; when this region is damaged speech is slurred
think boca like mouth in spanish

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broca’s area

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region of brain for comprehending words

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wernicke’s area

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same fertilized egg– same egg; identical DNA

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identical twins

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two separate eggs shared space in womb during development

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fraternal twins

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sensory neurons; bring outside info from outside world to body then brain;

hearing, smell, taste, pain, temp

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afferent neurons

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motor; brain to body; carry signals from brain to peripheral nervous system (PNS) to do action; effy

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efferent neurons

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process of understanding concepts/ideas during development

ex. all four-legged animals are “doggies”

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assimiltion

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occurs when new info causes you to modify existing schemas, adjusting view
term by piaget

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accomodation

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logical thinking; cog stages 7-11 by piaget, mastering use of logic in concrete ways

ex. child now understanding that a piece of chalk is still same chalk amt. even if broken in 2

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concrete operations

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philosophical thinking; piaget cog stages 12-18, abstract thoughts and ideas in head

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formal operations

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bottom-up processing; brain interpretation of five senses

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sensation

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top-down processing; based on prior knowledge, making sense of info

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perception

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night vision; work well in low light

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rods

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color vision; opponent pairs– color perception

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cones

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involuntary; conditioned response paired with specific stimuli, straight-forward
ex.pavlov’s dogs

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classical conditioning

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voluntary; a method of learning that uses reward/punishment to modify behavior, behavior rewarded is repeated behavior punished is diminished

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operant conditioning

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first items remembered in a list; think definition of wordd that means main/most important

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primacy effect

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last items remembered; think latest items

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recency effect

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loss of newest information learned; information interfered; think prefix ‘pro’ and its implications

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proactive interference

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loss of oldest info; think prefix that means ‘old’

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retroactive interference

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non-declarative; skills memory; unintentionally memorized/subconscious

ex. typing on a keyboard

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implicit memory

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declarative; facts; remembering intentionally

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explicit memory

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remembering specific information without any clues on retrieving it

ex. remembering title of a book read last week, the temp of boiling water

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recall

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remembering specific information with an assistive clue
ex. seeing a specific face and trying to remember the name

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recognition

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step-by-step procedure that provides right answer to specific problem; computer-esque; the long route

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algorithm

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rule-of-thumb; mental shortcut, to solve issue w minimal effort

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heuristic

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stereotypes; mental shortcut we use when estimating probabilities
ex. thinking someone that holds a briefcase while wearing suit and tie is lawyer, bc we imagine lawyers like that

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representative heuristics

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based on the available info; mental shortcut we make based on emotional cues, familiar facts, and vivid images
ex. if falling airplane parts or shark attacks are a more likely cause of death in the United States, most people would say shark attacks; untrue!

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availability heuristics

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basic sound units that distinguish one word from another
ex. p, b, d, t in the words pad, bad, pat, and bat

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phonemes

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basic units of meaning; units of language that cannot be defined further; morph word together
ex. incoming: the words in, come, -ing forming incoming

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morphemes

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processing speed; ability to think quickly, reason, and solve problems independent of previously acquired knowledge; cattell

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fluid intelligence

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acquired knowledge; vocabulary and reasoning based on acquired info

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crystallized intelligence

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test measures what it should be measuring, accuracy of study even outside of context of study

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validity

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same scores on a retest; consistency of findings via psych research

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reliability

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what you’ve learned; measures skills + knowledge learned in a given grade lvl.

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achievement test

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assessing what a person may be capable of doing or predict how successful they could be

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aptitude test

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motivated by personal satisfaction; internal drive wo outside influence; closely related to internal locus of control

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intrinsic motivation

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motivated by rewards; money, grades, closely related to external locus of control

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extrinsic motivation

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democratic/intrinsic; theory that people are self-motivated by the challenge of work

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theory Y

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rewards or punishment/extrinsic,theory that people dislike work and have little ambition, unwilling to take responsibility

think gen X

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theory X

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