Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Who was Wilhelm Wundt

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Forerunner of Experimental Psychology

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Who were John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner?

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Forerunners of Behaviorism

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Who was Max Wertheimer?

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Forerunner of Gestalt Psychology

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Who were Ulric Neisser and Noam Chomsky?

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Influences of the Cognitive Revolution

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Dependent Variable

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Variable being measured

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Independent Variable

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Variable being manipulated

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Experimental psychology

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A method of studying psychology through lab research

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Introspection

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self detailed reports of reactions to multiple stimuli

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Random Assignment

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assigning participants to receive different conditions of an experiment by chance

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Behvaiorism

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focuses on the idea that all behvaiors are learned through interaction with the environment.

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Empiricism

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The belief that knowledge is based on experiences

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Confound

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factors that can undermine your ability to draw causal inferences

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gestalt psychology

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the teaching that the whole is greater than the parts

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Correlation vs. Causation

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Corrleation links two things. Causation is one thing being the cause of another

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