Research

Question 1

Pure

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Done just to be done

Question 2

Applied

Answer 2

Find a solution to a problem

Question 3

Naturalistic observation

Answer 3

Observe people without their awareness

Question 4

IV

Answer 4

The thing that is being manipulated in the experiment

Question 5

DV

Answer 5

Result/outcome

Question 6

Experimental group

Answer 6

Group being tested

Question 7

Control group

Answer 7

Not tested

Question 8

Blind studies

Answer 8

People don’t know what group they were in

Question 9

Double blind study

Answer 9

People or researcher don’t know what group they were in

Question 10

Case study

Answer 10

Information collected about a long period

Question 11

Random sample

Answer 11

Equal chance to be included

Question 12

Stratified sample

Answer 12

Population % are equally represented

Question 13

Introspection

Answer 13

Self analysis or looking at yourself objectively

Question 14

Structuralism

Answer 14

Founders: William Wundt, Hall, Titchner
Definition: study the conscious experience. Use introspection or “looking within

Question 15

Functionalism

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Founder: William James
Definition: Focus on behavior experiences, and mental processes. Help people adapt to their experiences.
Patterns become habits, good habits stay bad habits are dropped
Example: it’s a habit of not touching the hot stove.

Question 16

Behaviorism

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Founder: John B Watson ( John Be Watchin’)
Definition: study observable behaviors: study what happens not why it happens

Question 17

Reinforcement

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Founder: B.F Skinner
Definition: how positive/negative consequences teach us behaviors: rewards= probable repetition. Negative consequences= may stop behaviors

Question 18

Gestalt

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Founders: Warthemer, Koffka, Kohler
Definition: idea that perceptions are more than jus the sum of there parts: the individual parts give meaning to the whole

Question 19

Psychoanalysis

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Founder: Sigmund Freud (took psychology out of the lab and without him there would be no therapy as we know it)
Definition: emphasizes the importance of unconscious behaviors/ internal conflicts on behaviors
Study why we do things not what we do
Unconscious motives affect behavior

Question 20

Biological

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The chemical causes for our behavior

Question 21

Cognitive

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Perception and thoughts influence behavior
Compares the brain to computers

Question 22

Humanistic

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People make choices based off of experience
3 ways to “invent ourselves”: self awareness, experiences and choices

Question 23

Social cognitive

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Environmental experiences, habits and learning by observation, experience influences behaviors

Question 24

Ethics of experiments

Answer 24

Informed consent

Question 25

Parapsychology

Answer 25

Supernatural

Question 26

Sociocultural

Answer 26

Gender, ethnicity, culture and status Biopsychosocial factors create you