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1
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what is psychology?

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the scientific study of the mind and behavior

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Step one in critical thinking

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What is the claim I am being asked to believe?

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Step two in critical thinking

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What evidence is provided to support the claim?

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step three in critical thinking

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given the evidence, what are the most reasonable conclusions about the claim?

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Who came up with the nature/nurture idea?

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Aristotle and Plato

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What is dualism and who came up with it?

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It is where the mind and body are separated but connected parts of a person. Descartes

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Who created the first psychology lab?

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Wilhelm Wundt in 1879 Germany.

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What is reaction time?

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time it takes to complete a psychological task

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what is the introspection method?

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when people reported their thoughts about personal experiences of objects

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What is structuralism and who created it?

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Edward Titchener used introspection to investigate basic parts of the conscious mind

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what is Functionalism and who created it?

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William James argued that the mind was more complex

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What is natural selection?

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having traits that make something more likely to survive and reproduce

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What is the psychoanalytic theory and who created it?

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Sigmund Freud said that human behavior is influenced by unconscious mental forces. children and sexual urges

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what is psychoanalysis?

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make the patient aware of unconscious conflicts

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what is the gestalt theory and who created it?

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Max Wert though that perception of objects is a personal experience

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what is behaviorism and who created it?

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John B. Watson thought that humans learned all behaviors through environmental factors

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what is humanistic psychology and who created it?

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Carl Rogers believed people are motivated to grow and choose activities that make them happy, are they fulfilled?

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what is cognitive psychology and who created it?

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George Miller, how people think, remember, pay attention, and make decisions

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what is tabula rasa?

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the mind in its empty and blank state before receiving outside influence, babys when they are born

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what is the biological school of thought?

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behavior is a consequence of genetics and physiology

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what is the social school of thought?

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prejudice, bigotry, bystander effect

22
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what is the evolutionary school of thouht?

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useful mental and psychological traits are products of natural selection

23
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Who was the first American to earn a psychology pH.D?

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Stanley Hall

24
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who conducted memory experiments on themselves?

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Ebbinghous

25
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What does the I.R.B stand for?

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Institutional Review Board

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What is qualitative research?

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think themes, can be subjective

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what is quantitative research?

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think statistics and numbers, can be measured (uses the experimental method)

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What is an independent variable?

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what we manipulate

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what is the dependent variable?

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result of the manipulated independent variable, even if nothing occurs

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what is the extraneous variable?

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variables you can control for, can keep like from the experiment. Ex. are age, gender, race

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What are confounding variables?

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variables you cannot control for, can’t keep out of the experiment

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What is the observational method (or naturalistic)?

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observing with no influence

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what is the case study method?

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not generalized, can’t apply to the population, descriptive research approach to obtain an in-depth analysis of something

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What is the experimental type of research?

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the scientific method

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What is correlation?

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relationship between two variables, correlation does nor equal causation.

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What is the research method of using survey?

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not always honest, bias is hard to control

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What is sampling bias?

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when the sample is not representative of the general population

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what is selection bias?

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when participants were not fairly selected

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what is response bias?

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only certain individuals respond to a survey

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what is the hawthorn effect?

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subjects alter their behavior when they know they are being observed

41
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what is social desirability?

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answering with socially responsible answers

42
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what is observer bias?

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the researcher influences results

43
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What is a placebo?

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sham or treatment designed to have no therapeutic value

44
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What is empiricism?

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belief that people should rely on practical experience and experiments, rather than theories, as a basis for knowledge

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clark

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ethnicity tied to self-concept

46
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skinner

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operant conditioning - method of learning that uses rewards and punishments to change behavior

47
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pavlov

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classical conditioning - a type of learning that happens unconsciously

48
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carl rogers

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self-actualization

49
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freud

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unconscious motivation

50
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rizzolattie

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mirror neurons - mirroring an action

51
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ebbinghaus

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memory concepts

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cattell

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psychological assessment - necessary to look at a much larger number of traits in order to get a complete picture of someone’s personality.

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