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Building block Flashcards

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Clinical psychology

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The study of mental disorders and how to treat them

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Experimental Psychology

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Using the scientific method to learn about the mind

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G Stanley Hall

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1st american psych pHD, opened 1st recognized psych lab, opened APA

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APA

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(American Psychological Association) one of the most influential/populated psych orgs

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Margaret Floyd Washburn

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1st american woman pHD in psych

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Francis Cecil Sumner

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1st black american psych pHD

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Bio Psycho Social

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Way of viewing psychology that includes biology, psychology and sociology

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Counseling psychologist

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Psychologist that doesn’t deal with disorders but with the challenges of life

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Community psychologist

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Create social environments cultivating mental health

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Nativism

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Viewpoint created by Plato, humans are born with innate knowledge

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Philosophical Empiricism

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Viewpoint created by Aristotle, all humans knowledge is gained through experience

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Demons theory

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Ancient theory where people believed demons were responsible for psychological disorders

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Trephination

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Ancient practice where parts of people’s brains were cut out to cure mental disorders

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Old biologic theories

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Outdated belief that different parts of your psychology are determined by different parts of your body

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John Locke

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Believed all knowledge came from experience

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Old witchcraft theory

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Outdated belief that mental disorders were caused by witches, and those “witches” would be killed

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Phrenology

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Outdated belief that different bumps and divots were responsible for different psychological aspects

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Weber and Fechner

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Believed there is a difference between real and perceived world

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Gestalt philosophy

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Understanding your whole philosophy is better than understanding your senses individually

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Structuralism

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Understanding the aspects that make up our consciousness (structure), founded by willhem wundt

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Wilhem Wundt

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Founder of structuralism, opened first psychology lab

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When was the first psychology lab opened

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1879

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Functionalism

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Understanding the function of our psychology, influenced by darwin, founded by william james

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Sigmund Freud

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Switched focus of psychology from the conscious to the unconscious, believed humans were innately bad,

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Behaviorism

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Mind does not matter: behavior does

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Humanism

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All humans have the capacity for good, though not all will be (in opposition to Freud’s view)

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What is the difference between basic and applied psychology?

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Basic: to expand knowledge, with no real
Applied: application to the real world

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Reciprocal determinism

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The idea that people all influence each other

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Skepticism vs naive realism

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Skepticism: you can’t believe everything you see
Naive realism: the world is exactly as you see it

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What are the three roadblocks to scientific thinking?

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Hindsight bias, overconfidence, and perceiving patterns in randoms

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Hindsight bias

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After completing an experiment, the false belief that you knew the results all along

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What are the benefits of doing an experiment

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It is the only test that determines causality

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What are the requirements of an experiment

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Must have a manipulatable IV, random assignment

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What is a quasi experiment

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An experiment on a IV that is non manipulatable

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Cross sectional

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Provide a snapshot of a time-based IV at a moment, rather than over time

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Natural observation

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Observing participants without their knowledge (typically in public settings)

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between-subjects vs within-subjects

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Between: each participant is exposed to each IV
Within: each participant is exposed to a different IV

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What does WEIRD mean

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Most participants in psych studies are from Western Educated Independent Rich Democratic countries

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internal vs external validity

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Internal: degree of cause-effect between variables
External: degree of population/setting influence

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reliability vs validity

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reliability: getting the same score over multiple instances
validity: getting scores closer to the population mean

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Self selection

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People who choose to participate in a study

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T-test vs F-stat vs p-test

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T: diff between 2 groups
F: diff between 2 or more groups
p: how likely that difference is due to chance

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positive vs negative correlation

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positive: variables increase/decrease together
negative: variables move in opposition to each other

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What is it called when a participant is told the risks and dangers of participating in a study?

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Informed consent

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What is respect for persons?

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You cannot force or coerce participants

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Can you coerce participants with money?

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Yes, unless it is so much that they feel like they can’t say no

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Beneficence

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Maximize benefit, minimize cost

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Fairness

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All participants should reap benefits of the study

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Debriefing

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Come clean at the end of the experiment about what you lied about and why

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What are the main ethics concepts discussed?

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Informed consent, respect for persons, beneficence, confidentiality, fairness, debriefing

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What is the Tuskeegee Syphilis study?

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An unethical study where members of a poor black community were unknowingly injected with syphilis, many of whom died and were not treated

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What is the main issue with animal research

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Animals can’t consent

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What are the three kinds of misconduct?

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Plagiarism, Falsification, Fabrication

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Falsification vs fabrication

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Falsification: data is collected and intentionally manipulated
Fabrication: data is completely made up

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Experimenter expectancy

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Experimenter expects their experiment to go a certain way, impacting results

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Demand characteristics

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Behavior that communicate the researcher’s expectations, which influence how participants react

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Blindness

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Participant is unaware of the experimental group they are in

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Double blindness

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Neither the researcher or participant knows what experimental group they are in

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Hawthorne effect

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Participants behave differently when they know they are being observed

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Social desirability bias

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Participants want to reply in socially acceptable ways instead of truthfully

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Bogus pipeline

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Participants are hooked up to a lie detector. Being exposed as a liar is less desirable than telling socially unacceptable truths

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Confound variable

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Other variable not studied in experiment that affects dependent variable

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What is the best kind of study for psychology?

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A double-blind experiment

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