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What is Social Psychology?

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Is the study of how people affect and are affected by others.

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What is Behaviorism?

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Theoretical Approach that sees to explain behavior in terms of learning principles without reference to inner states thoughts or feelings

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What is Freudian psychoanalysis?

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Theoretical approach that seeks to explain behavior by looking at the deep unconscious forces in a person.

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What does the ABC triad stand for?

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Affect behavior and cognition- the three deminsions of social psychology which explain the efect ofother peiople on out thoughts, feelings and behaviors.

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What does affect stand for in the abc triad?

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how people feel inside

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What does behavior stand for in the abc triad?

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what people do

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What does cognition stand for in the abc triad?

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What people think about

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What is anthropology?

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The study of human culture- shared values beliefs and practices of a group of people

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What are economics?

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The study of production, distribution, and consumption o goods and service/ the stfdy of money

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What is history?

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The study of past events

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What is political science?

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The study of political orginiztions and institutions

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What is sociology,?

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The study of human societies and the grouos that form those societies

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What is psychology?

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The study of human behavior

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What is biological psychology?

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The study of what happens in the brain, nervous system and other aspects of the body

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What is clinical psychology?

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Branch of psycology tat focuses on behavior disordersand other forms of mental iullness and how to treat themq

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What is cognitive psychology?

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The study of thought processes such as how memory works a d what people notice

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What is developmental psychology?

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The study of how people change across their lives from conception and birth to old age and death

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What is personaloty psychology?

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The ranch of psychology that focuses on impofrtant diffewrences between individuals

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What is philosophy?

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“Love of wisdom” the pursuit of knowledge about fundemental matters such as life death meaning reality and truth

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What is applied research?

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Research that focuses on solving practical problems

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What is b asic research?

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Research that focuses on basc understanding of basic principles that can be applied to many different problems

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What ius a hypothesis?

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A prediction tested in an expriement

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What is a Within-subjects design?

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Participants are exposed tp all levels of the IV

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What is the between subjects design?

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Participantds are exposed to only one level of the IV

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What are theories

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Theories are a framework or paradigm about a certain subject or issue

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What is an Independent variable?

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A variable manipulated by researcher that is assumed to lead to changes in the iv

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What is the dependent variable?

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The variable in a study that represents the result of the events and process. The variable that changerelies o the indepoencent variable

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What are operational definitions?

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observable operations procedures and measurements that are based on the iv and dv

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What is the CVaonfederate?

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A research assistant pretending to be another participant in the study

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What is Construct validity of cause?

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Extent to which IV is vald reporesentation of theoretical stimulus

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What is the construct validity of the effect?

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extent to which the DV is a valid representation of the theoretical response

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What is an experiment ?

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Study which researcher manipulate IV and randomly assigns people to groups (levels of IV

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What is Random Assignment?

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The procedure wherby each study participant has an equal chance of being in each treatment group

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What is the institutional review board?

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Is a committee that makes sure that a research study conducted in a universoty setting is ethical the board must contain at least one scietist one non scientist and one person not affiliated with the univeristy

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What is a consent form.

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A form that notes to the participants all of the ins an out of what the experiement entails so they know nwhat they sign uo for and can answe accordingly

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What is the demand charecteristic?

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any clues in a study that suggests to participants what the researchersa hyupothesis is

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What are deception studies

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research studies that withold information from partcipants or intentionally mislead them about the purpose of the study

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What is debreifing?

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An oral or writtn statement participants recieve at the end of the study is serves two main purposes

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What are the two purposes of debriefing?

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  1. to fully inform participants about the study and answer any questions they have
  2. to reduce or eliinate any stress or harm the participnt experienced by being in the study
40
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What is a quasi experiement?

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A type of studyt in which the researcher can manipulate an independent variable but can not randomly assign participants to conditions

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What is experimentasl realism?

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The extwent to which study participants get so caught up in the procedures that they forget they are in an expereiment

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What is mundane realism?

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Refers to whether the experiment of the setting pysically remebles the world

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what is externl valididty

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the extent to which the findings from a study can be generalizrd to other people other settings and other time periods

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What is correlational approach?

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non expereimental methodn in which the researcher merely observers whether variables are associated or related

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What is correlational?

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the relation or asdsocation bvetween two variable

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What is correlaion coefficient?

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Thestatstical relationship or association between two variables

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What is meta- analysis?

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a quantatative literature review that combinesthe statistical results from all studies conducted on a topic

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What is a random sample?

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A sample in whiuch everyone from the population studied has an equal oppurtunity of being selected

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What is population?

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The total number of people under consideration

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What is margin of error?

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A statistical measure of the amount of random sampling error in a surveys results for example, a 3% margin of error means the surveys results could be three percent higher or lowrr

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What is reliability?

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A measure that gives consistent rersults

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What is valididty

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How accurate the results ar if the easure actually measures what it purports to measure

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What is replication?

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repeating a study to see if it is reliable

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