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Unit 1 Review Flashcards

1
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Explain human thought and behavior strictly in terms of biological processes.

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Neuroscience/Biological Perspective

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How natural selection of traits promoted the survival of genes:

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Evolutionary Perspective

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Look at observable behaviors and what reaction organisms get in response to specific behaviors:

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Behavioral Perspective

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4
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Part of the behavioral perspective:

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Watson and B.F. Skinner

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5
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How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts:

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Psychoanalytical Perspective

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6
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Father of Psychoanalysis:

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Freud

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Examines human thoughts in terms of how we encode process, store, and retrieve information:

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Cognitive Perspective

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8
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Part of the Cognitive Perspective:

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Piaget

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9
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How our environment influences our growth potential:

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Humanistic Perspective

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10
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Part of Humanistic Perspective:

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Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

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11
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Twofold view that knowledge comes from the senses (not innate) and observation/experimentation are the basis of science:

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Empiricism

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12
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Early school of psych that used introspection to examine the structure of the mind:

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Structuralism

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13
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Introduced Structuralism:

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Wundt and Titchener

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14
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Early school of psych that emphasized the adaptive significance of behavior and mental processes:

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Functionalism

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15
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Introduced Functionalism:

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William James

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16
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Pure science that aims to increase psych’s scientific knowledge base:

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Basic Research

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17
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Careful reasoning that examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses consclusions:

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Critical Thinking

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18
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Explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations:

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Theory

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19
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Details of how you will measure the variables, how you will observe and measure the results, and how you will evaluate the hypothesis:

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Methodology

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20
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Portraying an overly positive view of themselves as they want to be viewed but not necessarily who they are:

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Subjective Self-Report

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21
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Subtle cues interviewers may convey about their expectations which can cause interviewees to behave in ways they believe the interviewer wants them to behave:

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Demand Characteristics

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22
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Tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors:

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False Consensus Effect

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23
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Indicate the strength between the two variables; no correlation is 0:

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Correlation Coefficients

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24
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Subgroups within the population are equally represented and members of these subgroups have an equal chance in being selected for the sampe:

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Stratified Sampling

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25
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Tendency for subjects to behave in certain ways based on their perception of the experiment:

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Participant/Response Bias

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26
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Influences of being part of a group that bonded based on a time period or certain life experiences:

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Cohort Effects

27
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Apply what is learned from a study/research to all people:

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Generalizability

28
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Likelihood that differences in the DV are caused by the IV:

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Internal Validity

29
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Ability to generalize the results of a study to the larger population:

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External Validity

30
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Any type of academic research must first propose the study to the ethics board or IRB at the institution:

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APA Ethical Guidelines for Human Research

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Ethical psych studies using animals must meet the following requirements: have a clear purpose, care for/house the animals in a humane way, acquire animal subjects legally, design experimental procedures that employ the least amount of suffering:

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APA Ethical Guidelines for Animal Research

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Committee on the IRB that weighs the risks to the animal against the benefits of the research:

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Animal Care and Use Committee

33
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Advocates for ethical use of animals in research:

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Committee on Animal Research and Ethics

34
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Meet to review any study to determine if the propral is ethical or if it poses risks to those involved:

35
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Participants in study must give SIGNED consent indicating that they understand the components and potential risks of the study:

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Informed Consent

36
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To force or require a participant to comply:

37
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Involves misleading participants about the nature of an experiment and its methodology and is acceptable when the researcher believes it is necessary and the IRB agees:

38
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When deception is used, the researcher must explain the deception after the study:

39
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Techniques for organizing and describing data sets:

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Descriptive Statistics

40
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Organizing data to determine how often something occurs:

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Frequency Distribution

41
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Tendency for the extreme or unusual scores to fall back toward the average:

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Regression to the Mean

42
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Average amount in which the scores in a distribution deviate around the mean:

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Standard Deviation

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Number of standard deviations from the mean:

44
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Indicates how widely spread scores are from one another and the mean:

45
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The probability of getting the experimental results:

46
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Stats that can determine whether findings can be applied to the larger population from which the sample was selected:

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Inferential Statistics

47
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Percentage of scores in a distribution that a score falls above:

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Percentile Rank

48
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Labels or names categories of data but do not lend themselves to mathematical computations:

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Nominal Scale

49
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Produces data that can be rank ordered:

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Ordinal Scale

50
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Represents data that can be placed in rank order and that have equal measurements between values on the scale:

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Interval Scale

51
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A line graph that is used to display continuous data generally measured on interval or ratio scales:

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Frequency Polygon

52
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First female president of the APA:

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Mary Calkins

53
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Student of William James and pioneer memory reseearcher:

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Mary Calkins

54
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First female to recieve a PhD in psych:

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Margaret Washburn

55
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Researched animal behavior and wrote “The Animal Mind”:

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Margaret Washburn

56
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Character and intelligence are largely inheritaged and certain ideas are innate:

57
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Character and intelligence are not innate; they come from the enviornment via the senses:

58
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Character and intelligence are not innate; they come from the environment via the sense:

59
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The mind is a black slate upon which experience writes:

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John Locke

60
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Disagreed with Locke stating some ideas are innate:

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Rene Descartes

61
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Gestalt psychologist who argued against divine human thought and behavior into discrete structures but instead tried to examine a person’s total experiences because the way we experience the world is more than just an accumulation of various perceptual experiences:

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Max Wertheimer

62
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Undertook an investigation of the living conditions of poor people with mental illness:

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Dorothea Dix

63
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First president of the APA, founder of the first journal for research in psych, and created the first psych lab in the US at Johns Hopkins:

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Stanley Hall

64
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Professor at Harvard who criticized structuralism:

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William James

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