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Chapter 1 - What is Psychology? Flashcards

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What is Psychology?

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The Scientific Study of the mind, brain and behaviour

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What are the levels of analysis?

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Biological, Psychological, and Social culture influences

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Human behaviour is difficult to predict; psychological influences are rarely independent, people differ from each other, people influence each other and people’s behaviour is shaped by culture are all examples of?

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Challenges of Psychology

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What do people often confuse culture with?

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Nationality

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What is an emic approach?

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Investigators study the behaviour of culture from someone who is involved in the culture

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What is an Etic approach?

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Investigators study the behaviour of culture from an outsider’s perspective

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What is reciprocal determinism?

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The fact that we mutually influence each other’s behaviour

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What is naive realism?

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The belief that we see the world precisely as it is

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What is Empiricism?

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The belief that knowledge should initially be acquired through observation.

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What is a scientific theory?

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An explanation for a large number of findings in the natural world

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What is a hypothesis?

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Testable prediction derived from a scientific theory

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What are examples of biases in psychology?

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Confirmation bias, Belief perseverance
Metaphysical claims

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What is confirmation bias?

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Tendency to seek out evidence that supports our hypotheses and deny, dismiss or distort evidence that contradicts them.

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What is belief perseverance?

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Tendency to stick to our initial beliefs even when evidence contradicts them

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What are metaphysical claims?

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The assertion about the world that is not testable

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What is Pseudoscience?

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Set of claims that seem scientific but isn’t

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What is the Ad Hoc immunizing hypothesis?

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escape hatch/loophole that defenders of a theory use to protect their theory from falsification

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What is Patternicity?

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tendency to detect meaningful patterns in random stimuli

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What are logical fallacies?

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Traps in thinking that can lead to mistaken conclusions

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What are examples of logical fallacies?

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emotional reasoning, bandwagon and “not me” fallacies

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What is the emotional reasoning fallacy?

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The error of using our emotions as guides for evaluating the validity of a claim.

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What is the bandwagon fallacy?

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The error of assuming that a claim is correct just because many people believe it

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What is the “not me” fallacy?

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The error of believing that we’re immune from errors in thinking that afflict other people

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What is a bias blind spot?

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unawareness of own biases but aware of them for others

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What is Scientific Skepticism?

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A willingness to have an open mind to all claims and accept claims after scientific tests.

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What is Scientific/Critical thinking?

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set of skills for evaluating all claims in an open-minded/careful fashion

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Ruling out rival hypotheses, Correlation vs. causation, Falsifiability, Replicability, Extraordinary claims, and Occam’s razor are examples of what?

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principles of scientific thinking

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Who was William Wondt?

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First “Psychologist” and created first-ever formal laboratory for Psychology research

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Structuralism, Functionalism, Behaviorism, Cognitivism and Psychoanalysis are examples of what?

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theoretical perspectives in psychology

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What is behaviourism in psychology?

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uncovering the general laws of learning by focusing on external/observable elements

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What is Cognitivism in psychology?

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Understanding mental processes underlying thinking in a variety of contexts

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What is Functionalism in Psychology?

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Understanding the adaptive purposes of psychological characteristics

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What is structuralism in psychology?

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Identifying the most fundamental elements of psychological experiences

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What is psychoanalysis in psychology?

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Uncovering the internal processes we are unaware of

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How many psychologists are there worldwide?

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1,000,000

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What are the 8 different types of psychologists?

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Clinical, counselling, school, developmental, experimental, biological, forensic and industrial/organizational

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What does a clinical psychologist do?

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performs assessments, diagnoses and treatment for mental disorders within universities, mental health centers or private practice

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What does a counselling psychologist do?

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Work with people experiencing temporary/self-contained life problems. Works at counselling centers, hospitals, or private practice

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What does a school psychologist do?

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Works with teachers, parents and students to remedy student issues

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What does a developmental psychologist do?

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Study how/why people change over time. Usually work at study centers.

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What does an experimental psychologist do?

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Use research methods to study humans’ memory, language, thinking and social behaviours. Work in research settings

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What does a biological psychologist do?

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Examines the physiological bases of behaviour in animals/humans. Most work in research settings

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What does a forensic psychologist do?

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works in prisons and jails to assess and diagnose inmates and assist with rehabilitation/treatment

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What does an industrial/organizational psychologist do?

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Work in companies/businesses to help select productive employees, evaluate performance and examine the effects of working/living conditions on people’s behaviour

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What are some of the “great debates” in Psychology

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Nature vs. Nurture and Freewill-determinism

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What is the nature vs. nurture debate?

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Is behaviour attributed to our genes or our environment

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What is the free will-determinism debate?

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Are our behaviours freely selected or caused by other factors

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What is evolutionary psychology?

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discipline that applies Darwin’s theory of natural selection to human/animal behaviour

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What is basic research?

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examines how the mind works

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What is applied research?

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examines how we can use basic research to solve real-world problems

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