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Module 1 Flashcards

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Wilhelm Wundt

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first psychologist; introspection; structuralism

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Structuralism

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attempt to understand the structure or characteristics of the mind

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Introspection

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someone examines their own conscious experience to break it into its component parts

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William James

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natural selection; evolution; functionalism

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Functionalism

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how mental activities help an organism fit into its environment; more interested in the operation of the whole mind rather than of its individual parts

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Sigmund Freud

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hysteria; neurosis; psychoanalytic theory

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Psychoanalytic theory

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focuses on the role of a person’s unconscious and early childhood experiences

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Gestalt psychology

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although a sensory experience can be broken down into individual parts, how those parts relate to each other as a whole is often what the individual responds to in perception

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Ivan Pavlov

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conditioned reflex; classical conditioning

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John Watson

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behaviorism - shifting the focus of psychology from the mind to behavior; learned behavior and its interaction with inborn qualities of the organism

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B.F. Skinner

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behaviorism, reinforcement and punishment as major factors in driving behavior, operant conditioning chamber/Skinner box

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Humanism

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emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all humans

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Abraham Maslow

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humanism; hierarchy of needs: physiological, security, social, esteem, self-actualization

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Carl Rogers

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humanism; client-centered therapy; 3 features of a therapist - unconditional positive regard, genuineness, and empathy

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Biopsychology

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explores how our biology influences our behavior; how the structure and function of the nervous system is related to behavior

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Evolutionary psychology

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evolution based on natural selection to have the traits we have today

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Cognitive psychology

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focuses on studying cognitions, or thoughts, and their relationship to our experiences and our actions

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Developmental psychology

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study of development across a lifespan; focus on changes in cognitive skills, moral reasoning, social behavior, and other psychological attributes

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Object permanence

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Jean Piaget; understanding that physical things continue to exist, even if they are hidden from us

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Personality psychology

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focuses on patterns of thoughts and behaviors that make each individual unique

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Big 5 personality traits / 5 factor model

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openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism

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Social psychology

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focuses on how we interact with and relate to others; differences in how we explain our own behavior versus how we explain the behaviors of others, prejudice, and attraction, and how we resolve interpersonal conflicts

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Stanley Milgram

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social psychology; research study on how many participants would be willing to give lethal shocks to someone else; 2/3 of participants would

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Deductive reasoning

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ideas are tested against the empirical world; begins with a generalization—one hypothesis—that is then used to reach logical conclusions about the real world

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Inductive reasoning

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empirical observations lead to new ideas; formulate theories, which in turn generate hypotheses that are tested with deductive reasoning

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Strange Situation

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Mary Ainsworth; caregivers bring their infants into a room filled with toys, a stranger comes into the room, the caregiver leaves the room, and the caregiver returns to the room

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Inter-rater reliability

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a measure of reliability that assesses the consistency of observations by different observers

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Longitudinal research

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a research design in which data-gathering is administered repeatedly over an extended period of time

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Cross-sectional research

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compares multiple segments of the population at the same time

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Confounding variable

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the variable that is the actual cause of 2 variables being correlated and not one causing the other

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Illusory correlations

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occur when people believe that relationships exist between two things when no such relationship exists

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Operational definition

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description of how we will measure our variables

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Attrition

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reduction in number of research participants as some drop out of the study over time

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Clinical or case study

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observational research study focusing on one or a few people

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