Introduction To Psychology

Question 0

Said the heart conducts our feelings.

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Aristotle

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Said that brain is the seed to the way we think.

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Plato

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German scientist who accidentally conducted a psychological experiment; dropped ball and timed reactions; author of Physiological Psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Russian psychologist who pioneered the study learning; classical conditioning; dog experiment

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Ivan Pavlov

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Austrian physician who developed an influential theory of personality; responsible for the Psychoanalysis school of though; controversial theories

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Sigmund Freud

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Swiss biologist who is considered get most influential observer of children

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Jean Piaget

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American psychologist who published “The Principles of Psychology” in 1980; suffered from depression which helped him develop some theories (pragmatism, functionalism, and James-Lange Theory of Emotion)

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William James

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First female president of the American Psychological Association; had all qualifications but was refused degree because she was a female

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Mary Calkins

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Science of behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

Question 9

Anything an organism does

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Behavior

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Subjective experiences

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Mental processes

Question 11

Took the side of nurture

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Aristotle

Question 12

Took the side of nature

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Plato

Question 13

List and describe the 3 main levels of analysis

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1) biological: brain mechanism
2) psychological: what you perceive; how you think
3) social-cultural: how we act around people; how they effect us

Question 14

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that we would have foreseen it.

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Hindsight Bias

Question 15

Everyone thinks they know more than they actually do.

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Overconfidence

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Workable definition

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Operation definition

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Examines an individual in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles

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Case study

Question 18

A technique for collecting the self-reported attitudes or behavior of a particular group

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Survey

Question 19

Observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation

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Naturalistic observation

Question 20

The extent to which two factors vary together, and this of how well either factor predicts the other

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Correlation

Question 21

The perception of a relationship where none exists

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Illusory correlation

Question 22

Is psychology a science?

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Yes