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Unit 0 Flashcards

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what is psychology

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cognition
emotion
perception
motivation
physical actions
emotional responses
social interactions
learned behaviors

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cognition

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thinking, knowing, rememberong, percception, memory, problem solving and reasoning

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emotion

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feelings that can influence behavior adn though patters

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motivation

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needs that direct beharior towards achievign goals

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pyshical actions

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movements and activites that can be seen and measured

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emotional responses

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expression of feelings

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social interactions

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how peeps interact with eachother, communication, cooperation and conflict

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learnd behaviors

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actions aquired through experience or educaion, ie driving a car

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pyschoanalytic

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unconcious mind, mottives, unresolved conflicts, past experiences
childhood, dreans

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evolutionary

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aprroaches cognition, emotions and behavior through generations o f development
fight or flight, darwinism, adaptation, reproduction, explain fears

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sociocultural

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ways a persons social experiences and society affects them
gender, society, development, culture, race, norms
holisitic, historical
doesnt accound fot the individual

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behavioral

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learning how environment effects behavior
learning, reinforcement, response, conditioning

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cognitive

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how info is aquired, processes, stored and utlilized
memory, processing, attention, thinking

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biological

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looks at genetics, inheritance, family, hisotyr, nervous system, immune system, and anatomy
biology, genes, hormones

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humanisitc

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loos at indiviuals as a whoe person through oversvation of behior
full potental, heiracchy of needs, positive

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hindsigh bias

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tendency yo percieve past events as being more predictable thean they actually are

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overconficene

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tendency to think we know more thany we actyally do

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generalizing

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assuming the study we are doing can apply to a larger pop

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replication

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repeating a study w/ different [ee[s tp psee if findings can be reproduced

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theory

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general explanation of why smth occurs, supported nby evicence

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hypothesis

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a specific, testable prediction bsed on a theory

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cases studies

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examines on individual or group in depth

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descriptive research

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allows researchers to gather info that cant be pbtained through experiments
cant be generalized

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naturalistic observation

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observing and recording behavior in a natural occuring situation
cant interat with enviro
cant determine cause and effect reationships

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survey

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ask peeps to report their behavior or opitnions through questionares
dishonesty
cant determine cause and effect
wording effects

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sample

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group of peeps participating in the study

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representative sample

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individuals that match the characteristics of the pop as a while

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random sample

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individulas in which each member of the pop has the same chane of getting into the sample as any other memer

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correlation

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relationship b/w 2 variables
cant determine causation

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positive correlation

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when 2 variables increase or decrease togehter

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negative correlation

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when 1 increases, teh other decreases and vise vers

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correlation coefficient

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value that expresses the degree of the relationship and its direction
closer to -1 or 1 means a stronger relationship

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iperational definition

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definign a concept by how you plan to measure it

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rules of ethics

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informed consent
ability to withdraw
little harm
confidentiality
debriefing

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all participants must know the risks before participating

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informed consent

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participatnts have the right to leave the study at any time for any reason

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ability to withdraw

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subjects are protected from greater than usual harm/discomformt

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little harm

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anonymous

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confidentiality

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after study, reasearchers infrom participatns of its purpose and metods

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debrieging

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