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First modern psychologist, established first psychology lab

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Wihelm Wundt

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The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake

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Basic science

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Applies things to the legal system

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Forensic psychology

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Studies the functions of consciousness

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Functionalists

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Led humanistic psychology

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Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers

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Developed personality tests

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Sir Francis Galton

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Looked at the unconscious mind

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Sigmund Freud

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Cardinal rule of _____________ is to never disturb the subject

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Naturalistic observation

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When you make something happen because you say it will happen

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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Relatedness between two variables

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Correlation (studied 8 hours got an A) (measure)

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How you think and behave it will be that way

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Cognitive state

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Central range of scores

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Mean (average)

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What occurs the most in a set of numbers

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Mode

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Normal bell curve

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Correlation coefficient

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In the experimental group the _____________ is applied

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Independent variable

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When you list and summarize data in a practical, efficient way

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Descriptive statistics

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When you collect data through intense interviews and questionnaires

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Survey

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Relatively small sample out of the total population

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Sample

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Explore how humans and animals react to their environment

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Humanists

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Main humanistic psychologist

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Rollo May

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Study that happens over many years

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Longitudinal study

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Mean, median, and mode are measures of _____________

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Central tendency

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When men and women receive equal pay for the same jobs

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Comparable worth

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Another term for positive stress

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Eustress

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Sequence in _____________________ is __________,_____________,______________.

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General adaptation syndrome

Alarm, resistance, exhaustion

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Long level of stress weakens it

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Immune system

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Less vulnerable to stress

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Type B people

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Negative stress

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Distress

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Reaction to fearful situation

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Fight or flight

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To positive alternatives

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Approach-approach

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A psychologist who diagnoses and treats people with emotional disturbances

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Clinical psychologist

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The branch of psychology that studies the emotional, physical, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that occur throughout an individual’s life cycle

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Developmental psychology

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A school of psychology that emphasizes personal growth in the achievement of maximum potential for each unique individual

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Humanistic psychology

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A measure of variability that describes an average distance of every score from the mean of the scores

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Standard deviation

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The branch of mathematics concerned with summarizing and making meaningful inferences from collections of data

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Statistics

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The small group of subjects, out of the total number available of the largest population, that a researcher studies

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Sample

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In an experiment, a group of participants that is treated in the same way as the experimental group, except that the experimental treatment (the independent variable) is not applied

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Control group

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The group of participants to which the independent variable is applied

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Experimental group

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In in-depth research method that involves an intensive investigation of one or more subjects

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Case study

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A number that describes something about the “average” score of a distribution

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Central tendency

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A change in the illness or behavior that results from a belief that the treatment will have an effect rather than from the actual treatment

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Placebo effect

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A type of conflict situation in which the individual wants to do something that fears or dislikes it at the same time

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Approach-avoidance

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In psychoanalysis, the reactance of a patient either to reveal painful feelings or to examine long-standing behavioral patterns

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Resistance

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The personality traits of control, commitment, and challenge to help reduce the stress we feel

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Hardiness

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A disorder in which victims of catastrophes or other stressful events experience the original event in the form of dreams or flashbacks

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PTSD

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A disorder in which a person’s mood inappropriately alternates between feelings of mania (euphoria) and depression

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Bipolar disorderThe small group of subjects out of the total number of available

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The humanist term for realizing ones unique potential

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Self-actualization

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In intense and irrational fear of a particular object or situation

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Phobia

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The reaction of the body and brain to regular drug use, whereby a person needs an increased amount in order to produce the original effect

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Tolerance

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The symptoms that occur after a person discontinue the use of a drug to which he or she has become addicted

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Withdrawal

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Involves hallucinations and delusions, including grandeur or persecution

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Paranoid-type schizophrenia

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A person exhibits two or more personality state, and each including with its own way of thinking

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DID

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When a person feels they are incapable of doing their job well and they are physically worn out and emotionally exhausted from giving to much time and energy to a project while not receiving sufficient gratification

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Burnout

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When a person experiences seven unexplainable attacks of intense anxiety, Reading the individual to feel a sense of inevitable doom or even the fear that he or she is going to die

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Panic attack

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A condition in which there is no apparent physical cause

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Somatoform disorder

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When a person repeatedly performs coping behaviors

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Compulsion

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Symptoms include incoherent language, inappropriate emotions, giggling for no apparent reason, generally disorganized motor skills, and hallucinations and delusions

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Disorganized schizophrenia

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Introduced the concept of reinforcement

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B.F. Skinner

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When a person is physically handicapped; The person literally cannot feel anything in his left hand, move his legs, or exercise some other normal physical function

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Conversion reaction

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A physical being; a person

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Holistic organisms

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Normal curve

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Bell curve

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When an experimenter give the patient a drug, but the patient doesn’t know if it is real or fake, expectations play a role if it’s fake

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Single-blind study

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When either the participant or the experimenter know which group received what

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Double-blind study

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Being physically tired; last stage it in the general adaptation syndrome, when you become so stressed that you get exhausted

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Exhaustion

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People always prepared for flight or fight; always struggling; these type of people don’t like delay of any kind

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Type A

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Alcohol often called a social drug; is biggest drug problem in America; is an addiction

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Drugs and alcohol

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A discipline of science that applies existing scientific knowledge to develop more practical application

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Applied science

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A possibility of something happening

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Chance

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An absence of conformity to these norms

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Deviance

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Animals and people are _____________

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Cognitive organisms

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An educated guess, has to be scientifically tested, part of the scientific method

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Hypothesis

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