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Midterm Review Flashcards

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What is philosophical dualism

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View that king and body are fundamentally different things

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Philosophical materialism

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View that all mental phenomena are reducible to physical phenomena; mind is what the brain does

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Philosophical realism

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Perceptions of the physical world are produced entirely by information form the sensory organs

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Philosophical idealism

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Perceptions of the physical world are the brains interpretation of information from sensory organs

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What is the view that all knowledge is acquired through experience

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Philosophical empiricism

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What is philosophical nativism

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View that certain knowledge is innate or rather than acquired

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What is structuralism

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Approach that attempts to isolate and analyze the minds basic elements. Helps to measure consciousness.

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What is the term that corresponds to , “a persons subjective experience of world and mind”

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Consciousness

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How was structuralism measured and what were some of its criticisms

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Introspection- analysis of subjective experiences by trained observers…report on raw experience

Problems:
Science requires replicable observations
Hard to agree on basic elements of consciousness and if experience is the same for everyone

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What is the approach that emphasized the adaptive significance of mental processes

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Functionalism

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The mind does not know itself

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Psychoanalysis

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What is psychoanalytic theory

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Emphasizes the influence of the unconscious mind on feelings, thoughts, and behaviours

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What is the therapy technique called that aims to give people insight into the contents of their unconscious minds

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Psychoanalysis

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What is the basis of behaviourism

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Scientific study of objectively observable behaviour. What people do rather than what the think or feel. ( stimulus response theory)

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What is the principal of reinforcement and what theory helped its creation

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Consequences of behaviour determine likelihood or reoccurrence. Discovered using behaviourism and experiment

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Criticism of behaviourism

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Ignored mental processes and evolutionary histories

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What were some of the discoveries that resisted behaviourism

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Gestalt psychology- we often perceive the whole rather than the sum of the parts; ex. See elements as a unified whole; explains the way in which the mind creates perceptional experience

Memory- we often remember what we should/expect to happen rather that what actually happened

Social psychology

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What type of phycology examines the causes and consequences for sociality… ex how people form stereotypes, how people persuade one another

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Social phycology

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What is humanism

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Understanding human nature by emphasizing the positive potential of humans (clients vs patients)

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What caused the start of cognitive psychology and what is it

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The introduction of computers caused the rise of cognitive psychology and it is the study of human information processing(brain = hardware, mind= software)

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What type of psychology explains the mind and behaviour in terms of adaptive value of abilities that are shaped overtime by natural selection.

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Evolutionary psychology

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What was different about neuroscience

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Allowed us to study healthy brains with new technology. In the past we could only study damaged brains

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What are the two types of neuroscience

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Behavioural neuroscience-study if relationship between brain and behaviour(mostly non human)

Cognitive neuroscience- study of the relationship between the brain and the mind (mostly humans)

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What is cultural psychology

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Study of how culture influences mental life

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What are absolutism and relativism

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Absolutism is the view that culture has no role in influencing mental life

Relativism is the view that mental life has variability across culture

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What is the biggest difference between psychologists and psychiatrists

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Psychologists can diagnose but not prescribe whereas psychiatrists can do both as they have been to med school

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What is dogmatikos

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It’s is belief…the tendency to cling to assumptions

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What is empeirikos

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It’s is experience…acquiring knowledge through observation (empiricism)

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What is scientific method and what are the steps

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The scientific method is a procedure using empirical evidence to establish facts
Steps:
1)develop theories 
2)derive hypotheses
3)test hypotheses 
4)use evidence to modify theories
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What is a hypothetical explanation of natural phenomena

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Theory

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What is a hypothesis

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Falsifiable prediction made by a theory

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What does the rule of parsimony suggest

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Simplest theory that explains all evidence is best

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Can we prove a theory

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No, consistent evidence increases our confidence but we can never prove it due to the third variable problem

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What is the empirical method and what are the empirical challenges with people

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The empirical method is a set of rules and techniques for observations

The challenges with observing people are that they are very complex (100 billion interconnected neurons contribute to thoughts, feelings, and actions), variability(no two people are the same), and reactivity(people respond differently when they know they are being observed.

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Definition of observe

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Use senses to learn about the properties of and event or object

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What are some of the problems with observation

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1) they are unstable and differ from person to person

2) can’t tell us about the properties (ex crunchiness, pectin content)

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What are the two steps of measurement

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1) defining the thing to be measured (operational definition)
2) finding a way to detect it (instrument)

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What is and operational definition

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Description of a property in measurable terms (ex number of time a person Ike’s in an hour determines happiness)

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What is an instrument

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Anything that can detect the property as we defined it (smile detected with electromyograph)

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What does it mean to have good construct validity (for operational definitions)

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To have good contract validity would mean that the the thing being measured adequately characterizes the property (ex numbers on a scale are good indicators of weight).

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What does it mean to have good power (good for instruments)

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To have good power would mean that your detector has the ability to detect the presence of differences or changes in the magnitude of a property

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What does it mean to have good reliability ( good for instruments)

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To have good reliability would mean that the detector has the ability to detect the absence of differences or changes in a the magnitude property

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What are demand characteristics?

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Aspects of and observational setting that causes people to behave as they think someone else wants or expects

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What are the ways in which we can avoid demand characteristics

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1) naturalistic observation-technique for gathering scientific info by unobtrusively observing people in their natural environment
2) measuring behaviours that can be easily controlled
3) people can’t be identified
4) people don’t know how they should behave or purpose of study
5) cover stories-misleading explanations
6) filler items-pointless measures that mislead

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What is observer bias

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It’s the tendency for the observers expectations to influence both what they believed they observed and what they actually observed

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What is a way that psychologists ovoid demand characteristics and observer bias at the same time

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Double blind study-neither the researcher nor the participant knows how the participants are expected to behave

47
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What is frequency distribution

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Number of times in which the measurement of a property takes on each of its possible values

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What is normal (Gaussian distribution)

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Distribution where the frequency of measurements is the highest in the middle and decreases symmetrically in both directions

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What are the measurements of central tendency

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Mode: the value of most frequently observed measurement
Mean: the average value of all measurements
Median: the value that is in the ordered middle

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What are the two types of skew ness

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Positively skewed: mode, median mean; leans to right

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What are the measures of variability?

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Range: value of the largest measurement in a frequency distribution minus the value of the
smallest measurement

Standard deviation: describes how each of the measurements in a frequency distribution differ from the mean

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The definition of a variable

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A property that that can take different values

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What is correlation and what is the main thing we must take into consideration when observing it

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Correlation is a situation when the variations in the value are of one variable are synchronized with the variations in the value of another

It is really important to note that correlation does not equal causation due to the third variable problem

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How to we measure correlation

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Direction is denoted by a positive or negative

Strength of correlation is denoted by the correlation coefficient 
r=1 is perfect correlation 
r=0 is no correlation 
r=0.9 is strong correlation 
r=0.7 is moderate correlation 
r=0.3 is weak correlation
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What are natural correlations

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Correlations we observe in the world… but doesn’t tell us why the relationship exists

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Describe the third variable problem

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natural correlation between two variable cannot be taken as evidence of a causal relationship between them because a third variable might be causing them both

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Define experiment

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Technique for determining the causal relationship between variable, the goal is to eliminate differences between groups

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Define manipulation

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Technique for determining the causal power of a variable by actively changing its value

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What are the steps you should take when conducting an experiment

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1) manipulate the independent variable
(Two groups experimental group exposed to manipulation and control group not exposed to manipulation)

2) measure dependent variable (variable that is measured… value depends on manipulated variable)
3) compare (compare values from both conditions, if values differ on average then the changes in IV caused the changes in DV)

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What is random assignment and why is it used

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Random assignment is a procedure that assigned participants to a condition by chance

It’s purpose is to reduce the bias of self selection

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What is inferential statistics and what is an example of it

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Tells scientists what kinds of conclusions can be drawn from observations, and an example would be assessing the odds that a random assignment failed(statistical significance)

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What is statistical significance

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Statistical significance is assessing the odds that random assignment failed where p=odds it failed. Psychologists general use the rule that a experiment can be regarded is p<0.05 (the likelihood of random assignment failing is less than 5 %)

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What is internal validity

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The confidence we have that the experiment is measuring what it should and how it should, this allows us to be confident in establishing causal relationships

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What is external validity

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Represents the generalizability and representativeness of our study, and is an issue for most psychology studies. (Ex does my study accurately represent the entire population or just my sample???)

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What are case studies and when do they happen

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Case studies involve gathering data by studying a single individual and happen most commonly when an individual has something very unique about themselves that requires study

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What is random sampling

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Technique for selecting participants that ensures that every member of a population has an equal chance of being included in the sample (allows generalization from sample to population)

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What is replication

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Using the same procedures as a previous experiment but with a sample from the same population (increases our confidence in relationships between variables)

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Type 1 error

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Occurs when researchers conclude that there is a relationship between two variables when infact there is not

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Type 2 error

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Occurs when researchers conclude that there is not a relationship between two variables when infact there is

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What are some human tendencies that negatively impact critical thinking

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  • the tendency to see what we expect or what we want to see
  • when evidence confirms we ask can I believe it
  • when evidence disconfirms we ask must I believe it
  • tendency to ignore what we can’t see
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What are the two biggest rules when it come to critical thinking

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  • doubt your own conclusions

- consider what you don’t see

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What does the tri-council policy statement entail

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  • respect for persons: the right to make decisions for and about themselves w/0 undue influence or coercion
  • show concern for welfare: maximum benefits; reduce risks to participants
  • Research should be just: distribute risks/benefits equally to participants w/o prejudice to individuals or groups
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What are the APA guidelines

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  • informed consent
  • freedom of from coercion
  • protect from harm
  • risk benefit analysis
  • deception (justification of why to use it)
  • debriefing
  • confidentiality
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What are the 3 Rs tenet that we follow when it comes to respecting animals

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  • replacement: no alternative to using animals in research
  • reduction: smallest number of animals used as possible
  • refinement: modify procedures to minimize discomfort, infection, illness, and pain for animals; treated humanely /given appropriate administration of pain killers
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What are the rules psychologists must use when respecting truth?

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  • report truthfully in what was done and what was found
  • can’t fabricate results or fudge results
  • can’t mislead omission
  • share credit fairly and acknowledge researchers and collaborators
  • obligated to share data

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