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the father of modern psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

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functionalism/the first psychology textbook

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William James

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father of psychoanalysis/abnormal behavior and subconscious

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Sigmund Freud

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BF Skinner

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behavioralist

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Carl Rodgers

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humanist

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Founder of Behaviorism

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John B Watson

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founded rational emotive behavior therapy

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Albert Ellis

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coined Gestalt therapy

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Fritz Perls

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Gestalt

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many parts make a whole

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10
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Positive Psychology and resilience

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Martin Seligman

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Meyers Briggs test and analytical psychology

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Carl Jung

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observational learning/the Bobo doll experiment/behaviorist

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Albert Bandura

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Stanford prison experiment/obedience

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Stanly Milgram

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Stanford Prison Experiment

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roleplaying/if people pretend for to long they start to believe it’s true

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Weber’s law

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the magnitude needed to detect physical change in a stimulus is proportional to the absolute magnitude of that stimulus

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Harlowe’s Monkeys

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nature vs nurture

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Little Albert Experiment

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kid scared of rat bc of sound associated with rat (Pavlov’s dogs)

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studies one case

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case study

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follows group for very long time

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longitudinal study

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gathering data

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quantitative analysis

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having people answer questions

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survey

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mock-up of a situation

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simulation

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watching subject in their natural environment

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naturalistic observation

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to what extent are 2 factors related to eachother

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correlational study

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changes depending on an independent

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dependent variable

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the thing that you change

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independent variable

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nothing changes

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control group

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threatens the reliability and validity of the experiment

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confounding

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word choice

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framing

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neither the participants nor researchers know what is being tested

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double-blind procedure

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fake treatment

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placebo

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participants are randomly put in groups

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random assignment

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each sample has an equal opportunity of being chosen

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random sampling

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partition people into a sub-population

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stratified sampling

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way researchers officially choose to use a term

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operational definition

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can see an association between 2 variables that aren’t actually related

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illusory correlation

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2 variables move in tandem

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positive correlation

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variable move in opposite directions

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negative correlation

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correlation does not equal

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causation

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most occuring

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mode

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middle of the data

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median

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average

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mean

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difference between the highest and lowest piece of data in the set

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range

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spread

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distribution

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the quantity calculated to indicate the extent of deviation from the mean

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standard deviation

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expectetion of deviation

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variance

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is continuing

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continuous

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numbers/objectivly provable data

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empirical evidence

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how consistantly it measured

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reliable

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does it measure what it says it does

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valid

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scores are consistent

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accurate

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you can repeat it

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standardization

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difference that is of meaningful size

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statistical significance

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know and agree to what will happen

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informed consent

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participant’s info is not distributed

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confidentiality

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participents get to know about it after

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debriefing

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four ethical guidelines

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informed consent, do no harm, confidentiality, debriefing

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cognitive perspective

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based in the mind

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biological perspective

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based in the genes

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socio-cultural perspective

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causes are in surrounding culture

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behavioral

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empirical, observable behavior

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humanistic

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person focused

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psychoanalytic

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past and subconcious, longterm relationship with therapist

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psychodynamic

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modern psychoanalytic

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positive psychology

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how to make things better, not what’s gone wrong

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work with patients, work through problems

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clinical psychologists

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study and research, teaching/college environment

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academic psychologist

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genes/the body

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biological psychologist

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groups/mob mentality

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social psychologist

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over the lifespan, children, in schools, early intervention

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developmental psychologists

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businesses, working together

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organizational psychologists

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study human behaviors

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human factor psychologist

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develops and studies test

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psychometrician

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in classrooms

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educational psychologist

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