Chapter 1 Flashcards

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What is Empiricism

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The idea that all knowledge comes from experience.

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What is Psychophysics

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methods for measuring the relationship between physical stimuli and human perception.

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What is Introspection

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A method of focusing internal processes

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who and when was Society of experimental Psychologists established

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Established in 1904 by Titchener as he felt the APA didn’t adequatley represent the interests of experimental psychologists.

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what was Wilhelm Wundt credited for

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credited for the formal development of modern psychology and helped establish the field of experimental psychology.

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who are Structuralists

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interested in conscious elements of the mind, brought about by Edward Bradford Titchener.

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who was Margaret Floy Washburn

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the first woman in America to earn an PH. D in psychology in 1894

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what is Functionalism

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Focused on the utility of consciousness

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what claim did William James make about consciousness in the book Principles of Psychology

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Consciousness can not be reduced to its component parts

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who was Francis Cecil Sumner

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First African American in America to earn a PH. D in psychology in 1920

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James, Cattell and Hall were apart of a group that imbraced ______ and was influenced by evolutionary theory

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Functionalism

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what is Gestalt psychology

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An attempt to study the unity of experience, began by Max Wertheimer

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what is cognitive psychology

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the study of mental processes

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Behaviorism considers ______ to be the proper subject matter of psychology

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Observable behavior

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15
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who is Alfred Binet

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A French psychologist who invented intelligence tests

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who is Lightner Witmer

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Founder of both clinical and school psychology.

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17
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By what year was there more than 40 experimental psychology laboratories in the US and Canada

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Who was Evelyn Hooker

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A psychologist whose research influenced the decision to remove hemosexuality from diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders in 1973

19
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Father of immunology

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Dr. Edward Jenner (first to conceive and test vaccines)

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What are some highlights for ethics

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Informed consent, confidentiality, privacy, benefits and deception

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Operational definitions

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How researchers specifically measure a concept (must be clearly stated before beginning research)

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What is a Confound

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Factors that undermine the ability to draw causal inferences from an experiment

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What are some confounds

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Placebo effect, participant demand, experimenter expectations

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How to avoid confounds

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The double blind procedure

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What is correlation research
When scientists passively observe and measure phenomenon, not intervening ot changing behaviors like in experiments
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What is Correlation
Measures the association between two variables, or how they go together
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What is a weak correlation
When an association has many exceptions
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What is a strong correlation
When an association has few or no exceptions (the stronger the correlation, the tighter the dots on a scattershot will be) (if the r vaule is large, it is a strong correlation)
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What is a participant observation
When the researcher embeds themselves into the group in order to study its dynamics
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What is a case study
An intensive examination of specific individuals or specific contexts
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What is a narrative analysis
The study of stories and personal accounts of people , groups, or culture (not done face to face)
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What is an quasi-experimental design
An experiment that does not require random assignment to conditions (relying on existing group memberships. Ex child free vs parents)
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What did the research by Clark and Clark show about segregation
It harmed the self esteem of African American children
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George Miller's highly cited 1956 paper about working memory is called "The Magic Number ____, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our capacity for processing information".
Seven
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Who founded the American Psychological Association in 1892
G. Stanley Hall
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Ivan Pavlov advanced behaviorism by showing that behavior could be explained without reference to _____ and was instead controlled by events in environment
The mind
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According to the code of ethics, how should a researcher implement deception
Deception may be used when necessary, but must be followed by a debriefing after the research is complete
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What is debriefing
A set of procedures including the giving of information aimed at preventing psychological morbidity
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What are empirical methods
Approaches to data gathering that are tied to actual measurement and observation
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What is the idea that scientists can learn more important truths discovered by earlier scientists and build on them
Cumulative
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What was the average life expectancy in 1900
47
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Who created the self report questionnaire
Francis Galton