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1
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what is psychology?

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the science of behavior and mental process

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2
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psychology is an _______ science

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empirical

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3
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psychology is an _______ field

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interdisciplinary

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some call the “father of psychology”

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Wilhelm Wundt

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5
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Wilhelm Wundt was a _______

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psychologist

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wrote books about psychology

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William James

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was a philosopher who wrote books about psychology

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William James

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8
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preformed with the dog salvation experiment

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Ivan Pavlov

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a physiologist who preformed the dog salvation experiment

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Ivan Pavlov

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a biologist

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Jean Piaget

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11
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possibly the most famous person within psychology

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Sigmund Frued

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12
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the three parts of the bio-psycho-social approach include:

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biology, psychological, and social cultural

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(BPS)- focus on the behaviors of an individual

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psychological

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(BPS)- looking at the specific behavior’s of people within a group ~ differences in the way people behave

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social cultural

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(mental processes)- focusing on the physical body; brain, hormones, nervous system

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neuroscience

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16
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(mental processes)- Darwin’s theory to explain human behavior

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evolutionary

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17
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(mental processes)- genes for different things; although just because one processes a gene for something doesn’t mean you’ll inherit the problem

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behavior genetics

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18
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(mental processes)- someone’s behavior

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behavioral

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19
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(mental processes)- human info processes

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cognitive

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20
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(mental processes)- how countries are similar or different

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social-cultural

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21
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(mental processes)- unconscious motives; see if something unconscious is at play

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psychodynamic (early experiences)

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22
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example of neuroscience and why

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depression; different brain chemistry

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23
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is psychology all common sense?

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NO

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24
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the “I knew all along” phenomenon

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hindsight bias

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25
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(the man-who); didn’t work for them, won’t work for me

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availability heuristic

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26
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more confidence than reality

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overconfidence bias

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27
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random things actually mean something

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backwards masking

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28
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occurs from the direct influence of desire on beliefs, motivated by wishful thinking

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confirmation bias

29
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(SE: 1)- can be proven false easily

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falsifiability

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(SE: 2)- seems to be logical

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logic

31
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(SE: 3)- take in all events

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comprehensiveness

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(SE: 4)- minimize bias

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honesty

33
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(SE: 5)- replicate studies, important

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replicability

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(SE: 6)- adequate number of results

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sufficiency

35
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scientific method steps:

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  1. construct a theory
  2. generate a hypothesis from the theory
  3. operational definition of measures - what our data is
  4. test hypotheses through collecting observations data - see what we have
  5. refine the theory
  6. replicability is important—same results
36
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hypothesis definition:

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testable predictions

37
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the three research strategies for conducting studies:

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description, correlation, experimentation

38
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(1/3) techniques- the observed behavior is described in some way

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descriptive techniques

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descriptive technique- when you study one person in great depth over an extensive period of time

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case study

40
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descriptive technique- record behavior of an organism in their natural habitat

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naturalistic observation

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descriptive technique- putting out a survey or questionnaire

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survey method

  • watch out for bad surveys
  • watch out for “wording effects”
42
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example of a:

1) case study
2) naturalistic observation
3) survey method

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1) Anna O (Sigmund Freud)
2) dolphins; people in Walmart
3) survey- Kelloggs vs oatmeal

43
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(2/3) techniques- the co-occurance of two traits together

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correlation technique

44
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the statistical measure of the relationship between two things

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correlation

45
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correlations are demoted by ___ to ___

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-1.0 to +1.0

46
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the closer to 0 a correlation means ___ of a correlation

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less of a correlation

47
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(1/2 correlation)- when one thing increases, so does the other

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positive correlation = +1.0

48
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(2/2 correlation)- as one thing goes up, the other goes down

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negative correlation= -1.0

49
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_____ correlation- a perceived relationship between two things doesn’t really exist

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illusory correlation

50
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_____ does not cause _____

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association; causation

51
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(3/3) techniques- controlled laboratory experiments

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experimentation technique

52
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which example of experiment?

  • manipulating the factors of interest
  • controlling other (extraneous) factors
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experimentation technique

53
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what are the (5) parts of a typical experiment?

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  1. independent variable
  2. dependent variable
  3. experimental condition
  4. control condition
  5. random assignment of participants to condition
54
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what the experiment manipulates

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independent variable

55
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the measure of behavior

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dependent variable

56
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two factors that must be monitored in experiments

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  1. demand characteristics

2. experimenter’s expectations

57
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characteristics- the subjects want to look good to the experimenters

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demand

58
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three examples of demand characteristics

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  1. Martin Orne’s work (class experiment test)
  2. Milgram studies on obedience (voltage shocks)
  3. Clever Hans (smart horse)
59
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both the subjects and the experimenter do not know what condition the subject is in

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double-blind procedure

60
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an effect produced simply by the person’s belief that something will have a desired effect

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placebo effect

61
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the idea of “if you think something will happen, it will happen”

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self-fulfilling prophecy

62
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ethics of experimentation- how does this relate to animals and/or people

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is it ethical to experiment on animals and/or people

63
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ethics of experimentation- explain the Nuremberg trials

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adopted for medical research

64
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experimentation on people- when was the APA adopted for people?

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1952

65
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yearly animal statistics- how many vertebrates and how many invertabrates

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25 million vertebrates, 75 million invertebrates

66
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yearly animal statistics- many animals are killed a year for food?

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10 billion

67
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some believe our compassion for animals depends on their perceived _____ to us

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similarity

68
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research ethic procedures set for human experimentation

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Nuremberg code

69
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what was the procedure before Nuremberg code

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Nazis were being put through human experimentation for medical research

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