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Unit 1: Scientific Foundations of Psychology Flashcards

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Who helped separate psychology from physiology and philosophy?

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Wilhelm Wundt: father of psychology, German philosopher, physician, and professor

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Who brought Wundt’s ideas to America and created structuralism?

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Edward Titchner

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What is structuralism?

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study of conscious experience by breaking it down into basic structures using the idea of “introspection”

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What is introspection?

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required people to report their conscious experience; failed because the responses were to subjective because it is impossible to give a play by play of your current subconscious thoughts

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Who created the first psychological laboratory in the USA? He was also the first president of the APA.

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G. Stanley Hall

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Who created the theory of evolution?

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Charles Darwin

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Who came up with the idea of functionalism? He also wrote the first psychology textbook “Principles of Psychology”

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William James: American philosopher, physician, and professor at Harvard

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What is functionalism?

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function of consciousness is an evolutionary adaption to environment that made it possible for humans to adapt

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Who was the first female president of the APA? She also founded one of the first psychology labs at Wellesley College

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Mary Whiton Calkins: was an unofficial student of William James at Harvard

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Who was the first woman to be granted her PhD in psychology? She also wrote the book “The Animal Mind” and was the second female president of the APA

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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She investigated the living conditions of poor people with mental illnesses, and her work led to the first mental asylum in USA.

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Dorothea Dix

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Who created Gestalt psychology?

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Max Wertheimer

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What is Gestalt psychology?

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Studying human thoughts and behaviors separately and trying to examine a whole experience.

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What type of approach is this?
Created by Sigmund Freud; it was believed that the best treatment is to talk things out; emphasis on the unconscious mind

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Psychoanalytic

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Id: wants and desires
Superego: leads us to do what is right
Ego: get what one wants but does what is right

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Freud’s idea of the three parts to personalities

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What type of approach is this?
Created by John Watson; focused on observable behavior; responses that produced a satisfying effect will likely be repeated and vice versa (stimulus and response)

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Behavioral

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What experiment showed that paired association (classical conditioning) can condition fear in children? What type of approach is this?

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Little Albert experiment; behavioral

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What type of approach is this?
When dogs were brought their food a bell would be rung. Using associated pairing the dogs would salivate anytime they would hear a bell.

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Behavioral

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Who believed that people had no free will, that behavior should be studied objectively using science, and that humans basically operated like robots?

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B.F. Skinner

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What type of approach is this?
Harry Harlow studied primates to learn using this approach, and Jean Piaget studied children’s development using this approach. It is involved with the internal function driving human behavior.

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Cognitive

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What type of approach is this?
Focuses on a person’s future not past; believed people have free will and are responsible for their actions; the belief that people do the things they do because they are just trying to reach their full potential.

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Humanistic

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  1. self-actualization / achieving full potential
  2. esteem needs / feeling accomplised
  3. belongingness and love needs / friends and family
  4. safety needs
  5. physiological needs / basics like food, water, sleep
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Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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What type of approach is this?
Emphasis on culture, religion, ethnicity, gender, income level, and overall environment.

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Sociocultural

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What type of approach is this?
Focuses on genetics, the nervous system, hormones, brain structure, etc. Looks at factors in the brain that may lack function

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Biological

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What type of approach is this?
Focused on thoughts and behaviors changing over the course of time. Comes from Charles Darwin’s theory.

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Evolutionary

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What type of approach is this?
Looks at the patient as a whole and tries to observe the biological aspects, personality, and social influence.

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Biopsychosocial

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Works face to face with patients

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applied psychologists

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works in labs and works to increase knowledge in the field

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basic psychologists

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What type of studying method is this?
-observes subjects in their natural environment
-subjects are not aware that they are being observed

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naturalistic

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What type of studying method is this?
-looking at relationships between two variables
-no manipulation of variables

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Correlation

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as one variable moves up so does the other; as one variable moves down so does the other

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positive relationship

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as one variable goes up, the other one goes down

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negative relationship

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one variable could cause two variables to move up or down

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third variable problem

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What type of studying method is this?
-research method looking for cause and effect
-results have to be measurable

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experimental

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What type of studying method is this?
-collects info about perceptions, opinions, and outlooks
-sometimes only people with extreme opinions respond and this can skew results

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survey

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What type of studying method is this?
-in-depth study on one specific subject
-involves numerous amounts of testing methods
-looking for patterns and causes of behavior

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case study

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What type of studying method is this?
-studying individuals at different points in their lifetime
-panel studies, cohort studies, retroactive research

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longitudinal

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What type of studying method is this?
-analyzes common characteristics in a population at a certain time
-often used by businesses to find who to sell their products to

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cross sectional

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What is a control group?

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the group that is not receiving treatments

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What is a confounding variable?

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factors that may interfere that are not intended

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randomly picking participants to get an overall view of a population

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random selection

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randomly designating participants to either the control group, independent group, dependent group, etc.

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random assignment

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tendency to believe that something was coming after it happened; the thought that you should have seen it coming

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hindsight bias

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When you think you know more than you actually do

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Overconfidence

45
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when your brain is trying to find a pattern in something that is completely random

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perceiving order in random events

46
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Case studies, surveys, and naturalistic studies are what kind of research methods?

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descriptive

47
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a scatter plot is used in what kind of research method?

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correlation

48
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two types of statistics

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descriptive and inferential

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numerical data used to measure/describe characteristics of groups (describes the data)

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descriptive statistics

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provides a way to see validity drawn from the results of the experiment (what the data means)

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inferential statistics

51
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how well two variables are related

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correlation coefficient

52
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the closer to -1 the correlation coefficient is..

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the more significant the negative correlation is

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the closer to +1 the correlation coefficient is..

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the more significant the positive correlation is

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as one variable increases the other increases

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positive correlation

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as one variable increases the other variable decreases

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negative correlation

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no connection/ correlation

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illusory

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how much the data varies up and down from its average

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standard deviation

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a break down on how the scores fall along the graph; how frequent a specific variable might be

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frequency distribution

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68% of the population falls between the 1 standard deviation
95% of the population falls between the 2 standard deviation
99% of the population falls between the 3 standard deviation
(rule for a bell curve)

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68-95-99 rule

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all institutions that conduct research must have a meeting to review the study being done with the…

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Institutional Review Board

61
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APA has set ethical guidelines for research
and congress passed the ________ in 1974

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National Research Act

62
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misleading participants about the nature of the experiment (has to be approved by the IRB)

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deception

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protection of private information (cannot share names or other personal info)

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confidentiality and anonymity

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research being done using animals has to meet with…

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Animal Care and Use Committee (ACUC)
and Committee on Animal Research and Ethics (CARE)

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values that represent categories that cannot be further divided (things you can count; like persons)

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discrete data

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Nominal and ordinal scales are what type of data?

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discrete data

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data you can measure rather than count (height, weight, temperature)

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continuous data

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interval and ratio scale is what type of data?

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continuous

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what type of scale is this?
labels categories of data, counts how many responses are given or how many people fall into a category

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nominal scale

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what type of scale is this?
data that can be in rank order, can say that one value is more or less than another

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ordinal scale

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what type of scale is this?
represents data that can be placed in rank order and have equal measurements between values, has no true zero

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interval scale

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what type of scale is this?
equal values between measurements, has a true zero point

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ratio scale

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