Unit 0 Flashcards
what is psychology
cognition
emotion
perception
motivation
physical actions
emotional responses
social interactions
learned behaviors
cognition
thinking, knowing, rememberong, percception, memory, problem solving and reasoning
emotion
feelings that can influence behavior adn though patters
motivation
needs that direct beharior towards achievign goals
pyshical actions
movements and activites that can be seen and measured
emotional responses
expression of feelings
social interactions
how peeps interact with eachother, communication, cooperation and conflict
learnd behaviors
actions aquired through experience or educaion, ie driving a car
pyschoanalytic
unconcious mind, mottives, unresolved conflicts, past experiences
childhood, dreans
evolutionary
aprroaches cognition, emotions and behavior through generations o f development
fight or flight, darwinism, adaptation, reproduction, explain fears
sociocultural
ways a persons social experiences and society affects them
gender, society, development, culture, race, norms
holisitic, historical
doesnt accound fot the individual
behavioral
learning how environment effects behavior
learning, reinforcement, response, conditioning
cognitive
how info is aquired, processes, stored and utlilized
memory, processing, attention, thinking
biological
looks at genetics, inheritance, family, hisotyr, nervous system, immune system, and anatomy
biology, genes, hormones
humanisitc
loos at indiviuals as a whoe person through oversvation of behior
full potental, heiracchy of needs, positive
hindsigh bias
tendency yo percieve past events as being more predictable thean they actually are
overconficene
tendency to think we know more thany we actyally do
generalizing
assuming the study we are doing can apply to a larger pop
replication
repeating a study w/ different [ee[s tp psee if findings can be reproduced
theory
general explanation of why smth occurs, supported nby evicence
hypothesis
a specific, testable prediction bsed on a theory
cases studies
examines on individual or group in depth
descriptive research
allows researchers to gather info that cant be pbtained through experiments
cant be generalized
naturalistic observation
observing and recording behavior in a natural occuring situation
cant interat with enviro
cant determine cause and effect reationships
survey
ask peeps to report their behavior or opitnions through questionares
dishonesty
cant determine cause and effect
wording effects
sample
group of peeps participating in the study
representative sample
individuals that match the characteristics of the pop as a while
random sample
individulas in which each member of the pop has the same chane of getting into the sample as any other memer
correlation
relationship b/w 2 variables
cant determine causation
positive correlation
when 2 variables increase or decrease togehter
negative correlation
when 1 increases, teh other decreases and vise vers
correlation coefficient
value that expresses the degree of the relationship and its direction
closer to -1 or 1 means a stronger relationship
iperational definition
definign a concept by how you plan to measure it
rules of ethics
informed consent
ability to withdraw
little harm
confidentiality
debriefing
all participants must know the risks before participating
informed consent
participatnts have the right to leave the study at any time for any reason
ability to withdraw
subjects are protected from greater than usual harm/discomformt
little harm
anonymous
confidentiality
after study, reasearchers infrom participatns of its purpose and metods
debrieging
