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What finger is cognitive?

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Pointer.

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Name the 7 perspectives.

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Cognitive, Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Humanist, Neuroscience, Evolutionary.

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What does the cognitive perspective mean?

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Thinking.

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What finger is Psychodynamic?

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Thumb.

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What does the psychodynamic perspective mean?

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Unconscious.

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What finger is the behavioral perspective?

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Middle.

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What does the behavioral perspective mean?

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Actions

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What finger is the humanist perspective?

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Ring.

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What does the humanist perspective mean?

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Positivism (extreme).

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What finger is the neuroscience perspective?

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Pinky.

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What does the neuroscience perspective mean?

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Child care; mating.

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Define behaviorism.

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Psychology is an objective science that studies behavior w/o references to mental processes.

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Define humanistic psychology.

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Growth potential of healthy people and individuals potential for personal growth.

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Define cognitive neuroscience.

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Study of brain activity linked w/ cognition (perception, thinking, memory and language.)

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Define psychology.

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Science of behavior and mental processes.

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Define nature-nurture issue.

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Genes .vs. Experience

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Define natural selection.

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Survival of the fittest.

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Define levels of analysis.

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Different views of biological, psychological and social cultural for analyzing any event.

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Define bio psychosocial approach.

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An approach that incorporates biological, psychological and social cultural levels of analysis.

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Define basic research.

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Science that increases the scientific knowledge base.

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Define applied research.

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Aims to solve problems.

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Define counseling psychology.

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A branch that helps people w/ problems in every day life.

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Define clinical psychology.

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A brach that treats people w/ psychological disorders.

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Define psychiatry.

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Branch of medicine dealing a/ psychological disorders.

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Define positive psychology.

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Study of human functioning w/ goals of promoting strengths to help individuals thrive.

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Define community psychology.

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Branch of psychology that studies how people interact w/ their social environments and how social stuff effects groups.

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Define testing affect.

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Enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than simply reading info.

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Define SQ3R.

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Survey, Question, Read, Retrieve and Review.

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Define measures of variation.

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Difference in scores.

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Define standard deviation.

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How scores vary around mean.

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Name the 3 percentages of standard deviation.

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68%, 95% and 99%.

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Name the 4 APA Ethics.

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  1. Consent
  2. Protect (physical/emotional)
  3. Confidential
  4. Debrief
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Define confounding variables.

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Outside variables that effect a study that you wished wouldn’t have.

33
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Define developmental psychologist.

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Studies womb to tomb

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Define random sample.

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Random participants chosen from population.

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Define random assignment.

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Put into groups after random sample

36
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Who was William James?

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Found of functionalism; created 1st text book

37
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Define hindsight bias.

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“I knew it all along”

38
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Who was Mary Whiton Calkins?

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Earned PhD, never got it.

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Who was Margaret Floy Washburn?

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Got her PhD.

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Define industrial/Organizational psychologist.

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Using psychology in work.

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Define correlation coefficient.

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The number between -1 and +1; closer to absolute value of 1 and has stronger correlation.

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Define Introspection.

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Looking inward

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Define natural selection.

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Survival of organisms.

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Define positive psychologist.

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Need for human growth and promoting human strength

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