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Ch. 2 OO Flashcards

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1
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_______ is one of the main research options available to people want to do psychological research

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Experiment

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Traditional Chinese medicine is more inclusive of _____ _____ ______ ____ _____ ____ than is orthodox western medicine.

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Behavior, psychological states, emotions, spirituality, relationships, and livelihood

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The practices of astronomy physics chemistry and biology normally fell to evil these controversies over fundamentals that are endemic among psychologists why?

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Social sciences involve research into areas that involve”grey” subject matter that is typically difficult to measure.

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What is a split brain patient

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One whose nerves connecting each side of the brain had been cut

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The left hemisphere has been thought to be predominately involved with ____ ____

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Analytical processes

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The left brain appears to process input in a ____ __

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Sequential manner

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The right hemisphere is for certain ___ ___ a ___ ___, and processes information _______ and ______

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Skills and musical abilities. Simultaneously. holistically

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Right hemisphere has a highly developed ____ _____

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Oppositional capacity

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9
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The term “oppositional” implies a capacity for _____

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Posing or comparing perceptions schemas and engrams

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Define paradigm according to Kuhn.

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Thomas Kuhn Paradigm

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____ _____ “the structure of scientific resolutions” introduces us to the concept of the _____.

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Thomas Kuhn Paradigm

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12
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A paradigm once established is not ___ ___

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Quickly changed

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A paradigm is a _____ _____ and _____ shared by a scientific community and used by the community to define legitimate problems

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Collection of achievements, concepts, and techniques

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A formerly a sociological perspective, is just now beginning to filter into the realm of science of psychology. What is this perspective called?

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Sociocultural perspective

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Maslow, says science itself is unaware that it is a product of what?

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Time and place and local culture.

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16
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For placebos to work what is required?

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Consciousness.

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17
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What is often used in the control group of a drug study?

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Placebos

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18
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Acupuncture has been in continuous use in Asia for at least _____ years as one treatment method

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2300

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Kuhn points out that the process of discovery begins with the awareness of an a what?

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Anomaly

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Paracelsus a renaissance physician and founder of modern chemistry credited his understanding of science to what?

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“wise-woman”

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Name the two research methodologies that have dominated the psychology field for the first 100 years.

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The positivist/empirical approach & the constructionist phenomenological approach

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22
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Which of the two early methodologies furthered by Lukoff would be most compatible with the quantitative method of research?

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Constructivist\phenomenological

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23
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Which experimental method i the best to solve problems on the biological level?

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Drug testing

24
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What method of research can get psychologists of different perspectives use to bridge the gap among them?

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Mixed methodology

25
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What does the qualitative format offer that the quantitative does not?

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Levels of depth that are not obtainable in the quantitative.

26
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If a researcher has only academic knowledge about a particular culture, which method of research would be most advantageous?

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A qualitative open ended questionnaire. Because the researcher is learning from those well-versed in the culture about the individuals being studied.

27
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What is positivism?

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A system of thinking that bases knowledge solely on observable facts and rejects speculation.

28
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Ontological axiom of positivism.

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There is a single reality.

29
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Epistemological axiom of positivism.

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The knower and the known are independent

30
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Axiological axiom of positivism.

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Inquiry is value free

31
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Axioms of generalizations of positivism.

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Time–and context– free generalizations are impossible

32
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What do positivists believe about casual linkages

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Positivists believe that there are real causes that are temporarily president to four simultaneous with effects

33
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In the euro american tradition, psychology belongs to that branch of philosophy closes to ethics and theology until when?

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The mid 19th century.

34
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Experimental psychology was an invention of which german 19th-century psychologist?

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Wilhelm Wundt

35
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Much of Wundt’s work became what is known as sensation and perception research. What was this method called?

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The experimental design

36
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In quantitative research what kind of questions are asked

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Yes or no questions.

37
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Which methods are more appropriate for the use of research involving attachment oriented relationships.

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Qualitative methods

38
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Which method involves numerical data

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Quantitative methods

39
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_____ ______ is a central method of psychology that is applied in many fields

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Experimental design

40
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Experimentation is always been of greatest use in those psychological problems in which _____ ____ ____

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Physical variables dominate

41
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The effectiveness of an experiment has two main bases. What are they?

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Experimental components and experimental validity

42
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The independent variable is the variable that the____ ____

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Researcher manipulates

43
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This variable is predicted to have a casual effect on the relevant outcome measured. It is also known as the ____ ____

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Independent variable

44
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The dependent variable is always the result is forthcoming from the____ ___

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Independent variable

45
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A way of formulating a question and then coming up with a statement. This is also known as an educated guess.

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Hypothesis

46
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This means that there will be no difference between groups after a particular treatment is completed

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Null hypothesis

47
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That is defined by measurement and observation.

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Empirical evidence

48
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What does tat stand for?

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Thematic apperception test

49
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What is a rival hypothesis?

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It states that the population parameter is different than the value of the population parameter in the null hypothesis.

50
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What does sampling in an experiment attempt to do?

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Make particular selections stand for the general population.

51
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What should a person conducting a study be sure to do when subjects are picked?

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They must be selected to accurately represent the entire population of study

52
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What code was the first internationally recognized code of ethics regarding research on humans?

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The nuremberg code

53
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What is it called when the subjects of an experiment cannot be randomly assigned roles in the experiment?

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Quasi experimental design

54
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The technical term for unintentionally manipulating variables.

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Confounding variables/compound/extraneous variables

55
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Scientism

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Science worshiped as a religion

56
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What method of study does the case study fall under?

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Qualitative

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