Summer Vocab

Question 0

Nature vs nurture

Answer 0

Do human traits develop through experience or genetics

Question 1

Define psychology

Answer 1

Scientific study of behavior and mental processes

Question 2

Humanistic psychology

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Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people

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Natural selection

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Nature selects those that best enable an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment

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Biopsychosocial

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Considers the influence of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors

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Counseling

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Assists people with problems in living and achieving greater well being

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Clinical psychology

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Assists and treats mental, emotional and behavior disorders

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Psychiatry

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Medicine dealing with psychological disorders

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Critical thinking

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Examines assumptions, discerns, hidden value, evaluates evidence and assess conclusions

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Replication

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Repeating the essence of a study with different people in different situations

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Hindsight bias

Answer 10

Learning an outcome that one would have foreseen it

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False consensus effect

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Tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors

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Correlation

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Measure of the extent to which two factors vary together

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Illusory correlation

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A perceived nonexistent correlation

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Random assignment

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Assigning participants to experimental and control conditions by chance

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Standard deviation

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A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score

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Statistical significance

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A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance

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Social psychology

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Study of how we think about influence and relate to one another

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Conformity

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Adjusting ones behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard

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Social facilitation

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Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others

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Deindividuation

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The loss of self awareness and self-restraint in situations that foster arousal and anonymity

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Group polarization

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If a group is like-minded, discussion strengthens it’s prevailing opinions

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Stereotype

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A generalized belief about a group of people

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Scapegoat theory

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Theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame

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Just-world phenomenon

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Tendency of people to believe that the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get

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Social trap

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Situation in which the conflicting parties by each rationally pursuing their self interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior

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Mere exposure effect

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The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increase likening of them

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Passionate love

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An aroused state of intensive positive absorption in another

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Compassionate love

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Deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined

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Altruism

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Unselfish regard for the welfare of others

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Social exchange theory

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The theory that our social behaviors is an exchange process the aim of which is to minimize benefits and cost

Question 31

G.R.I.T

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Graduated and reciprocated initiatives in tension-reduction

A strategy to decrease international tensions