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Unit 1: Scientific Foundations of Psychology Flashcards

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Socrates and Plato’s belief that the mind and body are seperate; ideas were innate (nature/born with)

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Dualism

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Aristotle’s belief that the mind cannot be separated from the body because they were the aspects of the same thing; ideas resulted from experiences (nurture)

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Monism

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A person who agreed with Socrates and Plato’s beliefs; how mind and body work together

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Rene Descartes

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Natural selection

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Charles Darwin

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Father of modern science

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Sir Francis Bacon

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Wrote that our minds are a “blank slate”; Empiricism (knowledge comes from experiences), agreed with Bacon to use experiments

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John Locke

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Father of Psychology; founder of experimental psychology; 1st experiment; introspection

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Brain structure; aimed to classify and identify different structures of consciousness. Used self-reported introspection (looking inside) to analyze consciousness into its basic elements

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Structuralism

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Aimed to investigate how mental processes function and enable the organism to adapt and survive

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Functionalism

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Father of American Psychology; strongest proponents of the school of functionalism

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William James

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Structuralism who worked under Wundt

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E.B Titchner

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Students of James; 1st female president of APA

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Mary Calkins

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First president of APA

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G. Stanley Hall

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Psych through time (4):

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  1. Consciousness/unconscious
  2. Behaviorism
  3. Testing mental abilities
  4. Scientific study of behaviors and mental processes
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Founder of psychoanalysis and developed techniques such as free association and transference; his theory of unconscious included Id, ego, and superego

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Sigmund Freud

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Followed Pavlov, tortured Albert, father of behaviorism

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John Watson

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Learning and living to be the best version of yourself

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Humanistic Approach

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Brain chemistry

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Biological Approach

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Unconscious conflicts, usually sexual or aggressive instincts

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Psychodynamic Approach

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How people receive, store, retrieve, and process information; thinking

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Cognitive Approach

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Learning, especially each person’s experience with rewards and punishments

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Behavioral Approach

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Influence of others; society and person’s culture shaping behaviors and thought processes

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Sociocultural Approach

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Behavior and mental processes are adaptive for survival

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Evolutionary Approach

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Focus on research, usually in a lab, to increase knowledge about human thinking and human and animal behavior

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Basic Psychologists

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Work face-to-face with clients, students, or patients; outside of Psychology

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Applied Psychologists

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Helping with everyday life in achieving greater well being

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Counseling psychologist

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Studies, assesses, and treats people with disorders; diagnose

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Clinical psychologist

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Studying one person or group in-depth in hope of revealing universal principles; unusual condition

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Case study

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Description of something in terms of the operations (procedures, actions, or processes) by which it could be observed and measured.

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Operational definition

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Reproducing/repeating the study, usually with different participants and situation, to see if they have the same results

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Replication

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A quantitative, systematic method that summarises the findings of multiple studies investigating similar phenomena.

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Meta-Analysis

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All individuals who can potentially participate in a study

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Population

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Everyone in a population has an equal chance of being selected in an experiment

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Random Sample

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Every participant has a chance of being either in experimental or placebo group

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Random assignment

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Sample that has the characteristics that are similar to those in the population

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Representative Sample

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The unconscious tendency for researchers to treat member of the experimental and control groups differently to increase the chance of confirming their hypothesis

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Experimenter Bias

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the collection of samples that do not accurately represent the entire group

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Sampling Bias

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A factor other than the independent variable that might produce the effect

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Confounding Variable

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How well a test measures something that it’s supposed to measure

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Validity

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The consistency of the results

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Reliability

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Collecting data and summarizing it

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Descriptive Statistics

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