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Psychology

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The scientific study of the mind and behavior

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Physiology

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The branch of biology that studies, the way, living organism’s body functions

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Empiricism

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The idea that knowledge come from experiences and that experimentation allows us to gain a scientific knowledge

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Known as the father of psychology, he started the first psychology lab in Leipzig Germany

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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She was the first woman to receive a PhD in psychology

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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She was the first woman to complete all the requirements for her PhD in psychology, but she was denied the degree because she was a woman

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Dorothea Dix

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She lobbied Congress to create the first generation of mental asylums in the United States

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Sigmund Freud

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He was the founder of psychoanalysis and believe the unconscious mind was responsible for behavior, believed in taking therapy

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G Stanley Hall

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He helped found American psychology association started the first psychology laboratory in the US

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William James

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He was the founder of functionalism

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John B Watson

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He was one of the founders of the behaviorist movement and is known for the infamous little Albert experiment

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Charles Darwin

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Introduce the theory of evolution by natural selection

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Structuralism

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The whole can be understood by examining its parts, breaks down the human mind to its most basic components

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Functionalism

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Examines the function of the human mind what purpose does it serve

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Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic

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Focus on the cause, development, and treatment of abnormal behavior emphasize unconscious mind

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Behavioral perspective

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a theory suggesting that environment shapes human behavior

How we learn observable responses

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Cognitive perspective

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Studies how thinking and perception influence behavior

How we encode process store and retrieve information

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Humanistic

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Peoples potential and drive to be the best

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Sociocultural

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Impact people, culture, religion, ethnicity, gender, income level, and overall environment on a persons thinking and behavior

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Biological

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How genetics, the nervous system, hormones, and the brain structures influence a persons thinking and behavior

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Evolutionary

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Charles Darwin
emphasizes how evolution influences thinking, and behavior

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Biopsychosocial

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Emphasizes that biological psychological and social forces all influence behavior

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School psychologist

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A psychologist who works in schools and test students for learning and emotional struggles. They help create individualized education plans for students with learning and emotional struggles.

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Psychiatrist

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Mental doctor, who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. They typically prescribe medication to treat mental illness.

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Positive psychology

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The field studies, human flourishing with the goal of discovering and prompting a person, strengths, focuses on both individual and society well-being

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industrial- organizational psychology

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This field applies psychological training to the workplace. Helps companies select and train employees, boost morale and productivity, design products, and implement systems.

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Counseling psychologist

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A type of psychologist who assists people with personal problems, often related to school, work, relationships, etc.
Can treat people with mental disorders, but this is not their specialty.

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cognitive Neuroscience

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This field studies the biological processes (brain structures/neural networks) involved in cognition (thinking, perceiving, memory, etc.).

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Developmental psychology

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This field studies how people change and develop over their lifespan.

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Personality psychology

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This field studies people’s characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting.

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Clinical psychology

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A type of psychologist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Provides counseling/therapy, and does not prescribe medication.

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Social psychology

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This field studies how we think about, influence, and relate to other people.

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experimental Psychology

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This field uses experiments to study human thought and behavior.

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applied research

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This is a type of research that is conducted in order to solve a particular problem, not just to learn something new.

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human factors psychology

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This field studies the interplay between humans and technology/machines.

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Psychometrics

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This field focuses on the construction of assessment tools, measurement instruments, and formal models that can be used in research studies or clinical settings.

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health psychology

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This field examines how biological, social, and psychological factors influence health and illness.

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Inferential statistics

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Generalizing data of a larger population off of a small certainty

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Statistical Significance

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How likely a statistic occurred by chance

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P- Value

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determines if a study rejects nUll
hypothes’s

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Null Hypothesis

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when there is no relationship between Statistical observation

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Meta-analysis technique

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Analysis of multiple studies to find a solution to a problem

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Ethics/general principle

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Ethics concern, the morals of an experiment

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Institutional review board

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National board of review to accept experiments

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Informed consent

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Participants willingly aware of their participation

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Discontinuing participation

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Participants are allowed to drop out of the study at any time without a penalty

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Confidentiality

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Idea that date is concealed

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Deception

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Misleading/concealing info, to guide people in a certain way

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Debriefing

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The process of giving participants in a completed research project information about what they participated in

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Animal testing

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Use of products, processes on animals

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Statistics

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Numeric value that determines quantity/frequency of event

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Descriptive statistics

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Stats that describe a population

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Frequency distribution table

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Shows how often an event occurs

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Histogram

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Uses dates in quantities

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Mean “average”

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Add all numbers and divide by how many numbers there are

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Median “middle”

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Number in the middle of data

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Mode

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Number that occurs most often

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Range

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Highest number, subtracted by lowest number

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Standard deviation

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Measures the deviation for the mean

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Z scores

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measures how many standard deviations a data point is from the mean in a distribution

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Skewed data

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An outlier is just proportionately affecting the mean, if you have the score stretch out away from the group like a tale, the skew is named for the direction of the tail

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Normal distribution

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Data is distributed equally

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Negative Skew “Skewed Left” more data

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More data is on the right

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Positive Skew “Skewed Right”

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more data is on the left

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Martin seligman

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Founded positive psychology

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Albert Ellis

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Creator of rational, emotional behavior therapy

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Jean Piaget

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Develop theory that children’s cognitive abilities process through four stages

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Tichenor

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Used introspection to search for the minds structural elements

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Albert Bandura

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Bubba experiment children learn by observation

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Maslow

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Hierarchy of needs

Physiological, safety belong, belonging this, esteem, self actualization

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Rogers

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Humanistic, personality, and behavior

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BF Skinner

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Skinnerbox rat conditioning reward operate

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Behavior

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How someone acts response to things that are happening?

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Mental processes

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Internal subjective experience as we observe from behavior

Ex: sensations perceptions, dreams, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings

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Perspectives

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Approaching/interpretations of psychology that health professionals understand the individual

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Evolutionary perspective

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How natural selection of treats, his promoted the survival genes

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Psychodynamic perspective

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How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts

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