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Study Of Personality Flashcards

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Psychology

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The science that studies behavior and mental processes

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Personality

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The distinct patterns of behavior, including thoughts and feelings that characterize a person’s adaptations to life

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Psychologist

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A person trained as a professional in science of psychology

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Psychiatrist

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A medical doctor who specializes in the study and treatment of psychological disorders

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What are their goals

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Description
Explanation
Prediction
Control

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Description

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Gather information and find facts

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Explanation

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Create hypothesis, research and yes hypothesis, and construct theories

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Prediction

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What will an organism do?

What will it think or feel?

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Control

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Seek to influence or control behavior in helpful ways

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Central nervous system, brain

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Biological

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Mental processes, mind

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Psychological

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Self

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Humanistic

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Unconscious, sex and aggression

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Pyschodynamic

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Psychologist studies by looking at behavior instead of their internal workings

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Learning

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Psychologists maintain that a science of psychology can be based strictly on what goes in and what comes out

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Stimulus response

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By rewards and punishments

By observation

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Learn

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Ethnicity
Gender
Culture
Socioeconomic status

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Sociocultural

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Most adaptive organisms have a greater chance of surviving

Inherited tendencies

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Evolutionary

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Many kinds of behavior have what type of basis

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Hereditary

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Brain and nervous system - the body

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Biological

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The mind processing information

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Cognitive

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The self

Know thyself

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Humanistic

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Unconscious

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Psychoanalytic

Psychodynamic

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Observable behavior

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Behaviorist/ learning

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Inherited tendencies

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Evolutionary

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What are the steps of the research procedures

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  1. Generalize and formulate a research question
  2. Develop a hypothesis
  3. Devise a study to test the hypothesis and run the study and get results
  4. Analyze and interpret results
    5 conclude and communicate results
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Large samples of people are questioned

Random and stratified sampling

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Survey method

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Intelligence, aptitude, personality tests

Need to be consistent and reliable

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Testing method

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Measure what a test is supposed to measure

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Valid

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Carefully drawn biography that may be obtained through interviews, questionnaires, and psychological tests

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Case study

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Who based his research mostly on the case study method

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Sigmund Freud

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A selected group of participants are observed over a long period of time

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Longitudinal

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Different groups ages etc

Are studied and compared

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Cross sectional

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A scientific method in which organisms observed in their natural environment

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Naturalistic- observation

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Not interfering

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Unobtrusive

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Allows for psychologists to control the environment

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Laboratory observation

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Studies relationship between variables

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Correlation all method

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Can be positive or negative ranging from 1.00 to -1.00 , expresses the strength and definition of the relationship between two variables

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Correlational coefficient

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Seeks to discover cause and effect relationship by introducing variables and observing their effects as dependent variables

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Experimental method

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Independent variable

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Thing being changed

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Dependent variable

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Stays constant; thing being measured

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Placebo

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Fake substance

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Single blind

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Participant doesn’t know

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Double blind

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Both teacher and student are in the dark

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