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Experimental Psychology Flashcards

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Is the study of behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

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We rely on _______ when we conduct psychological research

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Scientific methodology

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Is non scientific and subject errorr

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Commonsense Psychology

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Shares key features of all modern science

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Psychological science

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Gathering observable data

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Objective data

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Search for general _____ to organize and explain the relationship among data

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Laws or theories

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Systemic gathering of data to provide descriptions of events

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Science

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Science is a tool that aids us in

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Organizing,categorizing and understanding our universe

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Science comes from the latin words_____ which simply means knowledge

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Scientia

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Basic tactic used in psychological research

The scientific techniques used to collect and evaluate psychological data

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Methodology

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Is a methodological approach rather than a subject

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Experimental Psychology

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There are 5 main tools of scientific approach

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1.Observation
2.Measurement
3.Experimentation
4.Good Thinking
5 Replication

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Four major objectives of psychological science

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Description
Prediction
Explanation
Control

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Psychological science was born in

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1879 , Wilhelm Wundt opened the 1st Psychology laboratory in Lepzeig, Germany

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Who opened the first experimental psychology lab in the United States in at John Hopkins University

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G. Stanley Hall , 1883

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Who established the world’s third experimental psychology lab at University of Pennsylvania

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James Mckeen Cattel, 1887

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Who is the first woman to form a psychology lab at Wellesley College

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Mary Whiton Calkins , 1891

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Who established the American Psychological Association

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G. Stanley Hall, 1893

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Who conducted famous little Albert experiment

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John Watson and Rosalie Raynor, 1920

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Who conducted the new famous Bobo Doll experiment

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Albert Bandura, 1961

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We used to analyze our observations and decide if the data are supported the hypothesis

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Statistical procedures

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