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Test#1 Flashcards

1
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What is Psychology?

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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Behavior

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Over actions and reactions

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Mental Processes

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Internal, covert activity of the mind

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Scientific Goals

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  • Prevent possible biases from leading to faulty observations
  • Precise and careful measurements
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Description

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what is happening?

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Explanation

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Why is it happening?

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7
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Prediction

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Will it happen again?

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Structuralism

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Focused on structure or basic elements of the mind

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Who was Wilhelm Wundt?

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A psychologist during the mid 1800’s

THE FATHER OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY

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What was one of Wilhelm’s biggest accomplishments?

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He created a lab in Germany in 1879

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Wilhelm developed ____ Introspection. What is it?

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  • objective

- Examine and measure personal thought and mental activities

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Who was wundt’s student?

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Ed Titcher

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13
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Edward Titcher _________ to america

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Brought structuralism

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Margaret Washburn was the _____________

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1st women to earn a Ph.D. in psychology

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She was ___’s Student

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Titcher

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16
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When did Structuralism die out?

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Early 1900’s

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17
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Functionalism focuses on.

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Functions in the real world (how people adapt, live, work, and play)

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Functionalism was proposed by _____

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William James

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19
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What modern fields did functionalism influence?

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  • Educational psychology
  • Evolutionary psychology
  • Industrial/organizational psychology
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20
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Max Wertheimer ___?

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  • Perception can only be understood as a complete events

- Understanding patterns, whole figures

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21
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Gestalt translated in German means?

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Organized whole

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Ideas of Gestalt?

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  • Ideas are how part of modern cognitive psychology

- Field focuses on perception learning, memory, thought processes, and problem solvery.

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23
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Psychoanalysis was developed by who?

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Sigmund Freud

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Ideas of Psychoanalysis?

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  • Trained a physician
  • Worked w/ patients w/ nervous disorders
  • sigmund was thefather of psycho-dynamic theory/psychoanalysis
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structuralism=

Functionalism =

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what

why

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26
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The unconscious is where?

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Where threatening impulses and desires are repressed (repressed urges create nervous disorders)

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27
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Freuds Concepts are?

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  • STRESSED early childhood experiences

- Formed the basis of modern therapy

28
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Ivan Pavlov - Russion Psychologist

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  • Studied digestive processes
  • Reflex can occur with new and new and unrelated stimulus
  • Conditioned dogs to salivate to a metronome
29
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Behaviorism

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  • Psychology should focus on observable behavior
    I. must be directly seen and measured
    II. Ignore notion of unconscious
30
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John B. Watson (Behaviorism)

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  • Believed Phobias were learned through conditioning
    I. Case of Little Albert
    A. Child conditioned to fear a white rat
31
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Mary Cover Jones (Counter-conditioning)

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Showed us how to undo fear

32
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Seven Modern Perspectives

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  1. Behavioral
  2. Biological
  3. Cognitive
  4. Evolutionary
  5. Humanistic
  6. Psycho-dynamic
  7. Sociocultural
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Psychiatrists

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Medical Doctor, Specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders

34
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Psychoanalyst

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  • Psychiatrist or a psychologist

- special training in freudian theory and psychoanylsis

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Psychiatric Social Worker

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  • Social Worker trained in therapy methods
  • Focuses on the environmental conditions impacting mental disorders
  • Poverty, Over crowding, Stress, and drug abuse
36
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Psychologist

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  • Academic Degree and specialized training in psychology
  • Working counseling, teaching and research
  • Specialization can include clinical, counseling, developmental, social, personality theory
37
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Descriptive Methods:

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Naturalistic (observing humans or animals in their natural habitat)
Laboratory observations (watching humans or animals in a lab)
Survey (Researcher asks a series of questions about the topic under study

38
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What are the Types Descriptive Statistics

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  • Frequencies
  • Measures of central tendency
  • Measures of dispersion
39
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How to find Frequencies?

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Count the number of responses in a data set

40
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Measure of Central Tendency

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  • Characterize the typical member of a group

- Give a best guess as to what an avg response might be

41
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3 ways to measure central tendencies are?

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  • mean
  • median
  • mode
42
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How do you find mean?

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The avg of the numbers in a dataset
(e.g. 22 took a test, total of all scores was 1596)
1596/22 = 73
73 is the mean

43
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How do you find median?

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the middle score when scores are arranged
12 27 33 55 66 72 80 89 96 100 107
the median 72

44
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How do you find mode

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The score that occurs most often in a data set
22 33 72 22 72 33 72 22 72 72
the mode is 72

45
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The bell shaped curve illustrates what?

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distribution of scores and how closely scores are grouped around a measure of central tendency

46
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The bell shaped curve usually relates to the ______

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Mean

47
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The 2 ways to prevent a distribution are?

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  • Range

- Standard Deviation

48
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What is Range?

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The distance between the lowest and highest number in a data set
100-48= 52

49
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When finding relationships you find a?

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correlation

50
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Positive Correlation

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Variables are related in the same direction

51
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Negative Correlation

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Variables are related in opposite directions

52
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Is there a relationship between correlation and causation?

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

53
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Obtaining measures of variables of interest in multiple waves over time is (Long)

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Longitudinal design

54
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The Experiment

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Allows researcher to determine cause and effect, deliberate manipulation of variables

55
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Independent variables are

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variables manipulated by the experimenter

56
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Dependent Variables

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Represents measured response of the experimentor

57
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Experimental groups

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Receives the manipulation

58
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What is the placebo effect?

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Expectations of the participants can influence their behavior

59
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What is the experimenter effect?

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Experimenter’s expectations can influence study

60
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Double blind studies are when?

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Neither experimenter o participants know if they’re in an experimenter control group

61
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What is statistical significance?

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Confidence that we have that our results are accurate and not by chance

62
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What significance represented by?

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P value

63
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P values can range from?

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0.00 to 1.00

64
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Psychological research looks for what in a P value?

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mean

65
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What is the probability that results are due to chance is?

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5%

66
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Power is in

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NUMBeRs

67
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Power is having what?

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enough data points to find a significant result if it exits

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