Ch. 1: Introduction And Research Methods Flashcards

1
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What do psychologist place high value on?

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Empirical evidence

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2
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The process of objectively evaluating, comparing, analyzing, and synthesizing information is called?

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Critical thinking

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3
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Who is the father of psychology?

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William Wundt

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4
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Edward Titchener, who sought to identify the basic building blocks of mental life through introspection. Great impact on studying. He is the founder of?

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Structuaralism

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5
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A form of study that studied the mind functions to enable humans and other animals to adapt to their environment. Expanded research on emotions. Study of?

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Functionalism

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6
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Who is the founder of psychoanalytic perspective? The founder believed that a part of the human mind, the unconscious contains thoughts, memories, and desires that lie outside personal awareness. Sex and aggression.

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Sigmeud Freud

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7
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Which perspective contains to explore unconscious dynamos, internal motives, conflicts and past experiences?

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Psychodynamic perspective

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Emphasizes objectively, observable environmental influences on overt behavior . Founder is John b. Watson & skinner. Adopted “conditioning”

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Behavioral perspective

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9
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Stresses on free-will and self actualization. Carls roger and Abraham Moscow. Positive psychology

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Humanistic perspective

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A type of perspective that focus mainly on thought, perception, and information processing. Study the way we gather, encode, and store information.

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Cognitive perspective

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The type of perspective that examines behavior thought the lens of genetics

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Biological perspective

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12
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Perspective that stresses on natural selection, adaptation, and evolution of behavior

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Evolutionary perspective

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13
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Emphasizes on social interactions and cultural determinants of behavior and mental processes. Ethnicity, religion, occupations and class.

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Sociocultural perspective

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14
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Why is the biopsychosocial model so important?

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It recognizes that there is no single cause for our behavior or mental states

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15
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Research that typically focuses on fundamental principles and theories. In laboratory

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Basic research

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16
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Research that is generally conducted outside the laboratory, used for real work application

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Applied research

17
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What is the order of the scientific method?

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Question
Hypothesis
Research experiment
Collect data
Publication of study
Theory development
18
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What are the four major goals?

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Describe
Predict
Explain
Change

19
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What types of descriptive research are there?

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Naturalistic observation
Surveys
Case study
Archival research

20
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What is correlation research

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When two variables are correlated. A change in one is accompanied by a change in the other

21
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A carefully controlled scientific procedure that involves manipulation of variables to determine cause and effect is called

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Experimental research

22
Q

What is used to help control bias’s by using w chance or random system?

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Random assignment

23
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A stimulus introduced into a research setting that may affect the outcome of the study errors

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Confounding variable

24
Q

Research participants don’t reflect larger population

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Sample bias

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Researcher influences outcome
Experimenter bias
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Experimental condition influence participants behavior
Participant bias
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Social desirability response
Participants try to present themselves in a good light
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When experimenters assumes that behavior are typical in ones own culture
Ethnocentrism
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What is the SQ4R method?
Survey, question, read, recite, review, write.
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What is psychology?
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes