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Test 1 Flashcards

1
Q

Who is the father of psychology?

A

Wundt

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2
Q

studying behavior in the unconscious mind is..

A

Psychodynamic

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3
Q

the study of an individual’s potential

A

Humanistic

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4
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the study of brain chemistry and genes

A

Neurological/biological

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5
Q

What is empiricism?

A

the idea that science should rely on observation and experimentation

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6
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What is structuralism?

A

exploring the structural elements of the human mind

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7
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What is functionalism?

A

how our mental and behavioral
processes function and how they enable us to adapt

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8
Q

womb to tomb study

A

developmental psychology

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9
Q

the study that helps optimizes human behavior in workplaces

A

Industrial/organizational

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10
Q

Believing that you already knew something would happen

A

hindsight bias

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11
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What does a theory do?

A

Helps organize observations and predicts events

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12
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What is a hypothesis?

A

A testable prediction

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13
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What is false conscious effect?

A

overestimating the extend that others share our beliefs and behaviors

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14
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What is observer bias?

A

only recording observations that match your belief

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15
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What happens to the control group?

A

they are not exposed to the treatment or test

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16
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What happens to the experimental group?

A

They receive the treatment and are being evaluated

17
Q

What variable is something that is outside of your control?

A

Confounding variables

18
Q

the most frequent score

19
Q

the average of scores combined

20
Q

How do you find the mean?

A

add them together and divide by the amount of scores

21
Q

what is the middle score?

22
Q

How do you find range?

A

The difference between the highest and lowest score

23
Q

What is standard deviation?

A

how much scores vary around the mean

24
Q

Structuralism parents

A

Wundt and Tichner

25
Q

Functionalism parents

A

William James and Mary Calkins

26
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Unconscious mind parents

A

Freud and Jung

27
Q

Behaviorism parents

A

Skinner and pavlov

28
Q

Humanistic parents

A

Maslow and Rogers

29
Q

What does the scientific attitude consist of

A

Humility, Skepticism, and Curiosity

30
Q

What are the tree types of research methods?

A

Descriptive, Correlational, and experimental

31
Q

Always use _____ when finding central tendency

A

The median

32
Q

What happens if the P value is lower thank 0.05?

A

reject null hypothesis

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