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Willhelm Wundt

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Founder of experimental psychology

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William James

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Published the principles of psychology. His theory is called functionalism

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Mary Whinton

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Became president of APS

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Margret Washburn

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1st women to earn a PhD is psych

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Stanley Hall

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Study of child development. 1st president of APS

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Max wetherimer

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founded gestalt psych.

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Gestalt psych

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Looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole, but also the parts that make up the whole

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Sigmund Freud

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invented psychoanalytics

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psychoanalytics

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helps people improve there lives by gaining a better understanding about how they think and feel

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John B watson

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Founded behaviorism

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behavioralism

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is a theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning

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B.F Skinner

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Theory states that a person is exposed to a stimulus, which creates a response, and then reinforcment

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Humanistic psych

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emphisizes looking at the individual as a whole and strives to help people fulfil there potential

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empiricism

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the idea that all learning only comes from experiences and observations

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Structuralism

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attempts to understand human conciousness by examining its underlying components

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introspection

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the examination or observation of ones own mental and emotional practices

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functionalism

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describes the mind as a functional tool that allows us to adapt to our environments

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cognitive psychology

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study how the brain works - how we think, remember and learn

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cognitive neuroscience

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a field of neuroscience that studies the biological processes that makeup human cognition

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Nature- Nurture issue

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particular aspects of behavior which are a product of either inherited or aquired influences.

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Evolutionary psychology

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the study of how universal patterns of behavior and cognitive processes have evolved over time

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behavior genetics

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the study of genetic and environmental influences on behaviors

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culture psychology

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the study of how cultures reflect and shape psychological processes

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positive psychology

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the study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive

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biopsycholosocial approach

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considers biological, psychological, and social and how they all work together to help us understand the brain

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social cultural psychology

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helps us understand the ways in which culture and society shape how people think, behave and relate to one another.

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SQ3R

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A study method incorporating five steps- survey, question, read, retrieve, review

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double blind procedure

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neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is recieving a particular treatment

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single blind procedure

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An experiement in which the experimenters but not the subjects know the makeup of the test and control groups durring the course of the experiment.

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placebo method

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a treatment that appears real, but is designed to have no bennifit. Only done if testing something that is suppossed to cure something. Always double blind.

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demand characteristics

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cues that might indicate the resarch objectives to participants. These cues can lead to participants to change there behaviors

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social desirability effect

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occurs when respondants give answers to questions that they believe will make them look good to others

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naturalistic observation

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watching participants in their natural environment. the researcher can observe the subject in there natural environment but they can’t control any outside factors that may influence the outcome

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case study

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an in depth examination of a rare phenomenon that occured within an individual, group, or situation. The resercher can examine in depth but they can’t generalize his or her findings to the entire population

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Surveys

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questions or interview that are used to identify attitudes, beliefs, and opinions. The resercher can get information from a large group of subjects but subjects may lie due to social desirability and wording effects

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wording effects

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can effect the way words are presented may alters someones opinion or take the information in in a way that was not intended

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correlation study

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examining the relationship between two or more variables. The researcher can see whether or not these variables are related but the 3rd variable problem can effect this.

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3rd variable problem

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occurs when an observed correlation between 2 variables can actually be explained by a 3rd variable that hasn’t been accounted for

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experiments (only cause and effect)

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an investigation in which a hypothesis is scientifically studied

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IV

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The factor that is being tested

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DV

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The measurable outcome

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Hypothesis

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A testable prediction about a relationship between 2 things

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random sampling

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the act of selecting members from the population in way that every person in the population has an equal chance of being chosen for the sample. Minimizes samping error

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Sampling error

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when the reasercher does not select a sample that represents the population of data as a whole

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opporational definitions

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a description of something in terms of the operations by which it can be observed or measured

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random assignment

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the act of putting members from the sample into the different experimental conditions ( like the test group and the control group)

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group matching

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a technique used in experimental research where the participants are paired based on specific characteristics (variables) they “match on” and then divided into groups (conditions)

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situation relevant confounding variables

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any factors exclusive of the IV that are related to the experimental setting or procedures that could impact the DV

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participant relevant confounding variables

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any factors related to the participants in an experiment that could impact their DV reaction to the IV

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illusory correlation

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Where people only want to see what they want to see

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confounding (lurking) variables

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an extraneous factor that interferes with the relationship between an experiments independent and dependent variables ( like 3rd variable problem)

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debrief

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Debriefing provides participants with a full explanation of the hypothesis being tested. Manantory when the research involves deception.

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informed consent

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is where researchers working with human participants describe there research project and obtain the subjects consent before starting

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protect

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an ethical principle that ensures to protect persons from harm

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confidential

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ensures that the research will not be shared with anyone else

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mean, median, and mode

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add the values and divide by how many, list in order and find middle, occurs most often

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standard deviation and z scores

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how much is in between each bottom section, z score is each standard deviation (-2, 3)

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p value

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0.05. If more then 5 percent it should be retested or the hypothesis is false

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cross sequential

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research that involves different groups of people who do not share the same variable or intrest. comparing apples to bananas

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inferential statistics

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mathamatical procedures that allow psychologists to make inferences about collected data

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longitudinal design

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researcher repeaditly examine the same individuals to detect any changes that might occur over a long period of time

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psychodynamic

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the study of the mental and emotional processes that influence behavior

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sociobiological

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the study of the biological basis of social behavior in organisms

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ethnographic

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a quallitative method for collecting data

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clinical case study

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an intensive study about a person, a group of people, or a unit

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clinical view

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adresses behavioral and mental health issues faced by individuals across their lifespan

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cohort sequential study

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when two or more age groups are tested over an extended period of time

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ex post facto design

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participants are not randomly assigned, but rather grouped together based upon specific characteristics or traits they share

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self actualization

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a concept by which an individual reaches his or her potential.

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cultural tendencies

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tendencies the culture has learned, shared, symbolic, and dynamic

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hindsight bias

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a phenomenon in which one becomes convinced they accuratly predicted an event before it occured.

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false consensus effect

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the tendancy to overestamate how much other people agree with you

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Jean Piaget

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provided support for the idea that children think differently then adults

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