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Functionalism

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  • Made by William James
  • created to understand how the conscious mind is related to behavior
  • consider mental life and behavior in terms of active adaptation to person’s environment
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Structuralism

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  • structure is more important than function
  • mind is broken into elements to understand brain and its function (mind를 structure 형태로 분해함)
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Wilhelm Wundt

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  • Believed in INTROSPECTION and STRUCTURALISM
  • Made the first psychology lab
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Introspection

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  • self-examination/ observation of one’s emotional/ thought process
  • looking inward one’s inner feeling
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Behaviorism

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  • study of observable events
  • shift psychology as a science-based study based on observable event
  • John B. Watson and Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner (reinforcement)
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Gestalt Psychology

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  • the whole is different than the sum of its parts
  • suggests that human minds do not focus on small components. Instead, humans see the greater whole
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Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic

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  • Approach focuses on study of unconscious mind (behavior is determined by past experience
  • Sigmund Freud
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Humanistic Approach

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  • humans have free will and the ability to grow
  • Individuals are striving to reach self- actualization and greatest potential with this approach
  • Abraham Maslow (hierarchy of needs) and Carl Rogers
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Cognitive Approach

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  • state that thought processes impact the way people behave
  • cognitive psychologists may study how emotion (ex. fear) affects one’s thinking
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Biological psychology

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state physical processes shape behavior

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clinical psychology

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section of psychology focused on assessing and treating mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders

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Cognitive psychology

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study of mental process associated with thinking, knowing, and communication

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Counseling psychology

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focus on personal issues that are not classified as mental disorders

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Developmental psychology

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study social, physical, and cognitive changes throughout lifespanE

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Educational psychology

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study how psychological processes can impact in improve of learning and teaching

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Industrial-organizational psychology

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study relationships between work and people in order to help companies increase productivity and train employees

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experimental psychology

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use experimental methods to examine relationships between behavior and the mind

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Experiments

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Purpose
- manipulate independent variables to determine effect of certain behavior

Good
- determine cause and effect
- can be retested/proven

Bad
- potential ethical issues
- artificial env. create low realism (people know they are being researched so impact result)

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Correlational Studies

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Purpose
- look relationships between variables and is used when experiments are unavailable

Good
- easy to conduct than experiment
- used when experiments are impossible

Bad
- cannot determine cause and effect

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Survey

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Purpose
- Collect of information reported by people about a particular topic

Good
- Cost-effective
-most reliable

Bad
- Low response rate
- Can’t verify accuracy of individual’s response

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Naturalistc Observation

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Purpose
- researcher observe subject’s behavior without intervention (관리감독 없이 observe만)

Good
- More reliable than a lab setting

Bad
- Hawthorn Effect (people behave differently when they know they are being observed impacting the result)

  • Depending on researchers could draw different conclusions from the same behavior
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Case Study

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Purpose
- study in-depth of an individual/small group

Good
- Provide detailed information

Bad
- Cannot generalize results to a wider population
- difficult to replicate
- time consuming

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Longitudinal Studies

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Purpose
- same individuals studied over long period of time

Good
- Show effect of changes over time
- powerful than ‘cross-sectional studies’

Bad
- Require large amount of time
- Expensive

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Cross Sectional Studies

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Purpose
- Examine people of different groups at the same time

Good
- quick easy to conduct
- generalize results

Bad
- Difficult to find populations differing by only one factor
- cannot measure changes over time

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Basic Research

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Research that is driven by curiosity

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Applied Research

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Research that is used to solve a problem or do something of practical use

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Operational Definitions

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statements of exact procedures used in studies to reduce bias during the experiment

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Confounding Variable

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Outside influence that changes the effect of the dependent and independent variable (third source)

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Random Assignment

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Randomly selecting people to be in a experiment group (sample에서 각각의 experimental group으로 들어갈 확률)

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Random Sampling

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randomly selecting people form the population to be in the experiment as a whole (population에서 샘플로 모두가 동등하게 들어갈 확률)

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Hindsight Bias

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tendency to believe that you knew what was going to happen, as if you foresaw the event (그럴줄 알았어, 그렇게 될 줄 알았어)

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External Validity

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refer to how well the result of a study could be generalized/ applied to other situations and people

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Internal Validity

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refers to how well an experiment is done, especially whether it avoids confounding variable

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Descriptive Research Method

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Purpose
- observe and record behavior (by case studies, naturalistic observation, surveys)

Bad
- cannot determine cause and effect

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Informed Consent

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participants must agree to participate

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Deception

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lying to participants about the true purpose or nature of a study

Deception debriefing is a must

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Anonymity

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Information about the participant will be held a secretr

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Coercion

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Participants cannot be coerced to give consent to be in any study

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