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define psychology

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the scientific study of overt behavior and mental processes

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where does the word psychology come from?

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ancient Greek roots psyche, meaning mind, and logos, meaning knowledge or study

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what are the goals of psychology?

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description, understanding, prediction, and control

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the process of naming and classifying

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description

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when the causes of a behavior can be stated

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understanding

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an ability to accurately forecast behavior

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prediction

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altering conditions that influence behavior

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control

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define pseudopsychology

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any false and scientific system of beliefs and practices that is offered as an explanation of behavior

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which type of pseudopsychology that involves the shape of the skull and how it reveals personality traits

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phrenology

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claims lines on the hand reveal personality traits and depict the future

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palmistry

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personality traits are revealed by handwriting

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graphology

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psychological research must be done ethically to protect the _____, _____, and ______ of participants

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rights, dignity, and welfare

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what are the different schools of thought?

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structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, Gestalt psychology, psychoanalytic, humanistic

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analyzing sensations and personal experience into basic elements

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structuralism

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how behavior and mental abilities help people adapt to their environments

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functionalism

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emphasizes the study of overt, observable behavior

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behaviorism

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emphasizes the study of thinking, learning, and perception in whole units, not by analysis into parts

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Gestalt psychology

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school of thought that emphasizes exploring unconscious conflicts

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psychoanalytic

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focuses on human experience, problems, potentials, and ideals

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humanism

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in an experiment, the condition being investigated as a possible cause of some change in behavior. the experimenter chooses the values that this variable takes

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independent variable

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in an experiment, the condition (usually a behavior) that is affected by the independent variable

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dependent variable

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changes in behavior due to participants’ expectations that a drug (or other treatment) will have some effect

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placebo effect

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an inactive substance given in the place of a drug in psychological research or by physicians who want to treat a complaint by suggest

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placebo

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observing behavior as it unfolds in natural settings

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naturalistic observations

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a non-experimental study designed to measure the degree of relationship (if any) between two or more events, measures, or variables
correlational study
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an in-depth focus on all aspects of a single person
case study
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a public polling technique used to answer psychological questions
survey
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a sensory impression; also, the process of detecting physical energies with the sensory organs
sensation
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the mental process of organizing sensations into meaningful patterns
perception
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a decrease in sensory response to an unchanging stimulus
sensory adaptation
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giving priority to a particular incoming sensory message
selective attention
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a misleading or misconstructed perception
illusion
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an imaginary sensation- such as seeing, hearing, or smelling something that does not exist in the external world
hallucination
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any relatively permanent change in behavior that can be attributed to experience
learning
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a form of learning in which reflex responses are associated with new stimuli
classical conditioning
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learning based on the consequences of responding
operant conditioning
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events that precede a response
antecedent
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effects that follow a response
consequences
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Russian psychologist known for his work in classical conditioning
Ivan Pavlov
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a stimulus innately capable of eliciting a response (example: meat powder)
unconditioned stimulus
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an innate reflex response elicited by an unconditioned stimulus (example: reflex salivation to the meat powder)
unconditioned response
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a stimulus that does not evoke the unconditioned response (example: bell before conditioning)
neutral stimulus
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a stimulus that evokes a response because it has been repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus (example: bell after conditioning)
conditioned stimulus
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a learned response elicited by a conditioned stimulus (example: salivation to the bell)
conditioned response
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any event that reliably increases the probability or frequency of responses it follows
operant reinforcer
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the active mental system for receiving, encoding, storing, organizing, altering, and retrieving information
memory
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converting information into a form in which it will be retained in memory
encoding
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holding information in memory for later use
storage
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recovering information from storage in memory
retrieval
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the first, normally unconscious, stage of memory, which holds an exact record of incoming information for a few seconds or less
sensory memory
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the memory system used to hold small amounts of information in our conscious awareness for about a dozen seconds
short-term memory (STM)
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the memory system used for relatively permanent storage of meaningful information
long-term memory (LTM)
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information bits grouped into larger units
information chunks
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process by which memories are reconstructed or expanded by starting with one memory and then following chains of association to other, related memories
redintegration
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failure to store sufficient information to form a useful memory
encoding failure
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loss of memory for events that preceded a head injury or other amnesia-causing event
retrograde amnesia
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loss of the ability to form or retrieve memories for events that occur after an injury or trauma
anterograde amnesia
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internal processes that initiate, sustain, direct, and terminate activities
motivation
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what is the motivational sequence?
need, drive, response, goal, need reduction, start over
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an internal deficiency that may energize behavior
need
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a steady state of body equilibrium
homeostasis
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cyclical changes in body functions and arousal levels that vary on a schedule approximating a 24-hour day
Circadian rhythms
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weight reduction based on changing exercise and eating habits, rather than temporary self-starvation
behavioral dieting
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active self-starvation or a sustained loss of appetite that has psychological origins
anorexia nervosa
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excessive eating (gorging) usually followed by self-induced vomiting and/or taking laxatives
bulimia nervosa
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a person's unique and relatively stable patterns of thinking, emotions, and behavior
personality
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the ability of a test to yield nearly the same score each time it is given to the same person
reliability
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the ability of a test to measure what it purports to measure
validity
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psychological tests that use ambiguous or unstructured stimuli
projective tests
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a projective test that consists of 10 standardized inkblots
Rorschach Inkblot Test
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a projective test consisting of 20 different scenes and life situations about which respondents make up stories
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
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Freudian theory of personality that emphasizes unconscious forces and conflicts
psychoanalytic theory
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innate biological instincts (pleasure principle)
id
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the "executive" because it directs energies supplied by the id
ego
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acts as a judge or censor for the thoughts and actions of the ego. called the conscience
superego
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the process of fully developing personal potentials
self-actualization
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innate biological instincts (pleasure principle)
id
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the "executive" because it directs energies supplied by the id
ego
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acts as a judge or censor for the thoughts and actions of the ego. called the conscience
superego

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