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structuralism

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to study consciousness-how elements of the mind are organized and related to each other

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functionalism

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how consciousness (like thoughts and feelings) helps people adapt to their environments

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how do genes(human biology) vs environmental factors contribute to a person well being

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nature vs. nurture

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psychophysics

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the relationship between physical stimuli and how it’s transmitted into psychological experience

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phrenology

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the study of the shape and size of the cranium as an indication of character and mental abilities

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introspection

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the act of looking into one’s own thoughts and feelings think the mindset

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behavioral

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An approach to psychology emphasizing the scientific study of observable behavioral responses and their environmental determinants.

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psychodynamic

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believed all behavior and mental processes are directed by the unconscious mind, think past experiences

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humanistic

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human growth potential, self-concept, free will, self-actualization, self-esteem, making yourself a better person

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evolutionary

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how the natural selection of traits promoted the survival of genes, how genes cause you to act a certain way, reproductive success

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biological

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the perspective that stresses links between biology and behavior, neuroscience(blood, neurotransmitters), how the brain and body physically create emotion

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cognitive

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how we take in, store and retrieve info, how perceptions influence our actions to think thinking, rationalizing, interpretation

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biopsychosocial

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the integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis

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social cultural

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the study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking, the study of groups

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biological psychologists

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analyzes the connection between the mind and body

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clinical psychologists

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the study, assess, and treats people with psychological disorders

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counseling

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helps people cope with academic, vocational, and marital challenges

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educational

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has expertise in problems of teaching and learning

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developmental

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studies how behavior and mental processes change over a life span (birth to death)

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experimental psychology

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the branch of psychology is concerned with testing theories of human thoughts, feelings, and actions

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personality

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investigates our persistent traits

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industrial-organizational

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a subfield of psychology that studies and advises on workplace behavior

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explores the ways in which people influence each other

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social

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emphasizes focus on positive events and influences in life

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positive

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an investigation where a hypothesis is tested, tests predicted relationships in a controlled environment, can show causation, can be expensive and long

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experiments

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looks at the relationship between two variables to see if they are related, a researcher does not alter any variables

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correlation studies

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data collection tool used to collect information, cannot determine causation

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survey

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observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations w/o manipulating/controlling the situation, does not show causation

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naturalistic observation

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examines one individual or group in depth, in hope of revealing things, does not show causations

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case studies

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research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period

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longitudinal studies

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a study in which people of different ages are compared with one another

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cross-sectional study

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a procedure used to define research variables

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operational definitions

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The experimental factor that is manipulated; is the variable whose effect is being studied.

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independent variables

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The measurable effect, outcome, or response in which the research is interested.

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dependent variable

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a factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect in an experiment

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confounding variable

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the variable that is kept constant through the experiment

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control variable

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the group in an experiment who receives the variable being tested

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experimental group

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the group in the experiment that does not receive the variable being tested

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control group

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A testable prediction, often implied by a theory

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hypothesis

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the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to

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validity

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consistency of measure

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reliability

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part of a population

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sample

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all those in a group being studied, from which samples might be drawn

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population

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assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups

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random assignment

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method of selecting from a population in which each person has an equal probability of being selected

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random sample

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procedure that ensures every person in a population has an equal chance of being chosen to participate

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random selection

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an experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant (blind) about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo

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double-blind procedure

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study in which the subjects do not know if they are in the experimental or the control group

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single-blind procedure

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the improvement resulting from the mere expectation of improvement

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placebo effect

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A cause and effect relationship in which one variable controls the changes in another variable

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causation

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American advocate on behalf of the mentally ill, created first mental asylums during the Civil war

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Dorthea Dix

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the german physiologist who founded psychology as a formal science; opened the first psychology research laboratory in 1879 in Germany

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Wilhelm Wundt

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founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment, and created the first distinctly American school of psychology

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William James

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founder of Gestalt psychology - consciousness was best understood by observing the whole experience, “the whole is greater than the sum of its part”

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Max Wertheimer

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first to focus on abnormal behaviors, created psychoanalysis which believed all behavior and mental processes are directed by unconscious forces

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Sigmund Freud

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J.B Watson and B.F Skinner

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founders of behaviorism which believed that psychology should only study what could be observed and measured objectively, external factors shape behaviorsJ.B Watson and B.F Skinner

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correlation

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A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other

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hindsight bias

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understanding of a situation after an event happened, someone saying “I knew it” after an event

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mean

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the measure of central tendency, the average of a set of numbers

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median

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the measure of central tendency, the middle of a set when placed in ascending order

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mode

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the number that occurs the most in a set

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range

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variation, the difference between the highest and the lowest in a set of numbers

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standard deviation

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a measure of how dispersed the data is in relation to the mean

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standard deviation percents

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68% will fall within 1 standard deviation, 95% will fall within 2 standard deviations of the mean, 99% will fall within 3 standard deviations of the mean

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