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Psychology Midterm Study Guide Flashcards

1
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Define the 4 goals of Psychology.

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Description, Explanation, Prediction, and Influence

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What is Explanation?

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Psychologists explain why people behave the way they do.

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What is Prediction?

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Psychologists predict what organisms will do.

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What is Influence?

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Psychologists try to influence behavior.

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5
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Who is the father of psychology?

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Who is the father of psychology in the United States?

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Edward Bradford Titchner

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7
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Define cognition.

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all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

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What is the scientific method?

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a general approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized

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9
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All psychologists agree that the study of behavior must be…

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credible

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10
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Name 4 historical approaches of psychology.

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STRUCTURALISM FUNCTIONALISM INHEIRITABLE TRAITS GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY

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What is structuralism?

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the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences

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What is functionalism?

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study of the function of conciousness

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13
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What is Gestalt psychology?

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how sensations are assembled into perpetual experiences

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What is psychoanalytic psychology?

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Study of how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior, feeling, and thoughts

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15
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What are the 6 contemporary approaches of psychology?

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PSYCHOANALYTIC BEHAVIORAL HUMANISTIC COGNITIVE BIOLOGICAL SOCIOCULTURAL

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What is behavioral psychology?

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Analyzing of how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment

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What is humanistic psychology?

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Belief that each person had freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth

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What is cognitive psychology?

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Study of how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how thought processes influence our behavior

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What is biological psychology?

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Study of how physical and chemical changes in our bodies influence our behavior

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20
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What is sociocultural psychology?

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Study of the influence of cultural and ethnic similarities and differences on behavior and social functioning

21
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What is psychology?

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the scientific study of behavior and mental processes

22
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What are community psychologists?

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Psychologists that work in a mental health or social welfare agency

23
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What are experimental psychologists?

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Psychologists who study sensation, perception, learning, motivation, and/or emotion in carefully controlled laboratory conditions

24
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What are clinical psychologists?

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Psychologists who diagnoses and treats people with emotional disturbances

25
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What are educational psychologists?

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A psychologist who is concerned with helping students learn

26
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What are developmental psychologists?

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Psychologists who study the emotional, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that occur as an individual matures

27
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What is sample?

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A relatively small group out of the total population

28
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What are the methods of research?

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NATURALISTIC OBSERVATION CASE STUDIES SURVEYS LONGITUDINAL STUDIES CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES CORRELATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS EXPERIMENTS ETHICAL ISSUES

29
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What is a hypothesis?

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an assumption or prediction about behavior or an educated guess about the relationship between two variables

30
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What is a control group?

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a group of participants that is treated in the same way as the experimental group but the experimental treatment is not applied

31
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What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?

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a belief, prediction, or expectation that operated to bring about its own fulfillment

32
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How do you avoid a self-fufilling prophecy?

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Double-blind technique or a single blind experiment

33
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What is the placebo effect?

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a change in a participants illness or behavior that results from a belief that the treatment will have an effect rather than from the actual treatment

34
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What is a histogram?

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a graph similar to a bar graph except that histogram a shoe frequency distribution by means of rectangles

35
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What is a normal curve?

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a graph of frequency distribution shaped like a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve a graph of normally distributed data

36
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What is the mode?

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Mode occurs the most! (Mark Podowski: most most most)

37
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What are inferential statistics?

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numerical methods used to determine whether research data support a hypothesis or whether results were due to chance

38
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What is developmental psychology?

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the branch of psychology that studies emotional, physical, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that occur throughout an individual’s life cycles

39
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Describe two reflex capacities of newborns.

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grasping reflex and rooting reflex

40
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What is maturation?

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the internally programmed growth of a child

41
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What is telegraphic speech?

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the kind of verbal utterances in which words are left out, but the meaning is usually clear

42
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Explain nature v nurture.

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Nature vs nurture asks whether thoughts and behaviors are inborn or a result of a child’s environment

43
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What is the average length of an infant at birth?

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18 to 22 inches

44
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What is generavity?

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desire in middle age to use one’s accumulated wisdom to guide future generations

45
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What is stagnation?

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a discontinuation of development and a desire to recapture the past, characteristic of some middle-aged people

46
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What is menopause?

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the biological event in which a woman’s production of sex hormones is sharply reduced

47
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What is empty nest syndrome?

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the event where the last child leaves home and the mother is sad

48
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What are the 2 parts of the nervous system?

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central nervous system and peripheral nervous system

49
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What are neurons?

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the long, thin cells of nerve tissue along which messages travel to and from the brain

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