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Study of mental processes and behavior

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Psychology

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2
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What are the four different perspectives of psychology

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Biological cognitive behavioral socio-cultural

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Physiological process (brain and nervous system)

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Biological

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Mental process, perception memory problem-solving

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Cognitive

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Behavior is learned from our environment

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Behavioral

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Impact other people/culture on thoughts/behavior

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Socio-cultural

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I knew it all along phenomenon

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Hindsight bias

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Behavior being observed occurs in natural setting

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Naturalistic observation

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Researcher becomes part of group being observed

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Participant observation

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Study of one individual in depth

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Case study

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Two variables that are being measured to see if they are related

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Correlational studies

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12
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Researcher controls the experiment setting cause/effect

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Experiment

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A small group taken from a population to study

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Sample

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The whole target group of individuals that are represented by the sample

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Population

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Number dictates

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Strength

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Positive and negative dictates

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Direction

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The closer the dots are on the scatterplot

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Stronger than association

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A third unmeasured variable is responsible for the relationship observe between the two measured variables

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Third problem variable/ confounding

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One being manipulated

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Independent variable

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What is being measured

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Dependent variable

21
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Choosing participants randomly to participate in study

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Random sample

22
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Assigning participants to either control or experimental groups randomly

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Random assignment

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When the participants and the observer don’t know which group is the experimental group/reduces bias

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Double-blind experiment

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Statistically combines the results of many different research studies

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Meta-analysis

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