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Unit 1- Scientific Foundations of Psychology (10-14%) Flashcards

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Psychometrics

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Field of study concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement ex: objective measurement of skills, knowledge, abilities

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Rehabilitation Psychologists

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focus on treating individuals dealing with disabilities and problems that make living normal lives difficult

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School/Educational Psychologists

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Someone who uses applied behavior analysis to meet children’s and adolescent’s behavioral health and learning needs in a collaborative manner with educators and parents

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Social Pyschologist

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Someone who studies people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others

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Sports Psychologists

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Someone who studies how psychological factors affect performance and how participation in sports and exercise affect psychological and physical factors

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Psychiatry

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Medical field of psychology that treats psychological disorders often with prescription medication

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Max Wertheimer

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Pioneer of the Gestalt field of Psychology

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Behavioral Genetics

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The field of study that examines the role of genetic and environmental influences on animal (including human) behavior.

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Abraham Maslow

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Humanistic psychologist who developed a theory of motivation that emphasized psychological needs

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Sigmund Freud

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Developed the influential psychoanalytic theory of personality. Emphasized the ways emotional responses to childhood experiences and our unconscious thought process affect our behavior.

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Repression

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The psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memory.

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Free Will

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The human ability to act freely, a focus of humanism. Psychoanalysis and Behaviorism minimized the emphasis on human free will.

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Psychoanalysis

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A set of psychological and psychotherapeutic theories and associated techniques, created by Sigmund Freud

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Humanism

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Emphasis on the importance of current environmental influences on our growth potential, and the importance of having our needs for love and acceptance satisfied.

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Gestalt Psychology

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the study of perception and behavior from the standpoint of an individual’s response to configurational wholes with stress on the uniformity of psychological and physiological events and rejection of analysis into discrete events of stimulus, percept, and response. In perception, “the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts.”

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Human Factors Psychology

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focuses on a range of unique topics of interest in psychology and engineering. For example, ergonomics, human errors, work site safety, product engineering and human-machine interactions

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Scientific method

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A self correcting recess for asking questions and observing natures answers

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Theory

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An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events.

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Replication

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Repeating the essence of a research study.usually with different participants in in different situations to see whether the basic findings extend to different participants and circumstances.

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Dependent Variable

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The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable. It is the thing being measured.

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Operational Definition

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Statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables. For example, human intelligence may be operationally defined as what an intelligence test measures

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Population

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All the cases in a group being studied, from school samples may be drawn

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Random Sample

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A sample that fairly represents a population because each member had an equal chance of inclusion

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Random Assignment

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Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups

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Experimental Group

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In an experiment, the group that is exposed to the treatment, that is, to one version of the independent variable

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Control Group

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In an experiment, the group that isn’t exposed to the treatment (independent variable); contrasts with the experimental group and serves as a comparison for evaluating the effect of the treatment

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Confounding variables

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Outside variables that can alter the result of the experiment.

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Correlation Research

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A study to show how closely two things vary to each other.

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Double-Blind Procedure

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During an experiment where both the experimenter and participants are blind about if they receive a placebo or not. and the

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Survey

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Used to estimate the behaviors of a whole population from a group of people.

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Naturalistic Observation

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Watches behavior and describes it. Does not seek to explain behavior.

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Experimenter Bias

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A process where the scientists performing the research influence the results, in order to portray a certain outcome.

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Single-blind Procedure

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An experiment where the experimenter knows what is the placebo and what isn’t but the participants do not.

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Statistical Significance

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A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance.

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Normal Distribution (Normal Curve)

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A bell shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data; most scores fall near the mean (68% fall within one standard deviation of it, and fewer near the extremes).

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Inferential Statistics

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Used to make generalizations from a sample to the general population.

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Informed Consent

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An ethical principle that research participants must be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.

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Debriefing

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The post-experimental explanation of a study; an ethical requirement.

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Institutional Review Board

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Committee designated to review, monitor, and approve behavioral research involving humans.

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Mean

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The arithmetic average of a distribution, obtained by adding the scores and then dividing by the number of scores

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Median

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The middle score in a distribution; half the scores are above it and half are below it

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Mode

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The most frequently occurring scores in a distribution

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Range

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The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution

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Standard deviation

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A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score

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Normal curve

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A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data; most scores fall near the mean and fewer and fewer near the extremes.

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Reliability

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The degree to which an assessment tool produces stable and consistent results.

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Validity

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Refers to how well a test measures what it is purported to measure.

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Case Study

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An observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles.

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Illusory Correlation

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The perception of a relationship where none exists.

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Placebo Effect

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Experimental results caused by expectation alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an inert substance or condition, which the recipient assumes is an active agent.

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Scatterplot

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A graphed cluster of dots, each of which represents the values of two variables. The slope of the points suggests the direction of the relationship between the two variables. The amount of scatter suggests the strength of the correlation. (Little scatter indicates high correlation)

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Correlation Coefficient

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A statistic index of the relationship between two things. (From -1 to +1). The closer the value is to 1, the stronger the correlation.

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Hindsight Bias

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the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.

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Hypothesis

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a testable prediction, often implied by a theory.

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Null hypothesis

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a statistical hypothesis that is tested for possible rejection under the assumption that it is true (usually that observations are the result of chance).

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Independent variable

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the experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied.

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Random Selection

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All members of the population being studied have an equal chance of being selected for the survey or correlational research.

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Introspection

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The examination or observation of ones own mental and emotional processes

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Psychology

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the science of behavior and mental processes.

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Dualism

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The mind and body are separate, the mind can continue without the body

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Monism

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The mind and body are connected/ the brain is the mind

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Plato and Descartes

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Believed in Dualism and that knowledge was innate

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Aristotle and Locke

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Believe we gain knowledge through experience/ Locke coined “tablula rasa” or blank slate

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Structuralism

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school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind.

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Functionalism

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school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function

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Clinical Psychologists

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assess and treat mental, emotional, and behavior disorders

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Counseling Psychologists

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help people to cope with challenges and crises (including academic, vocational, and marital issues) and to improve their personal and social functioning.

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Developmental Psychologists

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study our changing abilities from womb to tomb

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Forensic Psychologists

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apply psychological principles to legal issues. They conduct research on the interface of law and psychology, help to create public policies related to mental health, help law enforcement agencies in criminal investigations, or assist in forensic consultation involving jury selection and deliberation research.

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Industrial/Organizational Psychologists

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use psychology’s concepts and methods in the workplace to help organiza- tions and companies select and train employees, boost morale and productivity, design products, and implement systems.

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Neuropsychologists

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investigate the relationship between neurological pro- cesses (structure and function of the brain) and behavior.

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Sociocultural Approach

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Focus on the contributions of other people and culture, learn through social interactions

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Carl Rogers

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Pioneered Humanistic Psychology

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Evolutionary Psychology

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The study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

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Founded the evolutionary process of natural selection

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Cognitive psychology

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Study of how we think

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Jean Piaget

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Developmental psychologist who pioneered theories of cognitive development of children

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Cognition

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How we think

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Natural selection

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The principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.

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Empiricism

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The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.

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Nature-nurture issue

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The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development psychological traits and behaviors. Today’s science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture.

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Edward Titchener

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Used introspection to search for the minds structural elements

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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The first women to receive a psychology PhD., Washburn synthesized animal behavior research in The Animal Mind

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Mary Calkins

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Mentored by William James. Became a pioneering memory researcher and the first women to be president of the American Psychological Association

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G. Stanley Hall

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First president of the APA

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William James

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A functionalist; considered the evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings; he admitted Mary Calkins into his seminar

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Behaviorism

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The view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2)

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Ivan Pavlov

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The study of conditioning. Famous for dog saliva experiments.

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John Watson

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Science of behavior; demonstrated conditioned responses with “Little Albert”; conditioned fear

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B.F. Skinner

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Behaviorist; rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior, with animal behaviors (pigeons and rats in skinner boxes)

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Operant Conditioning

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A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher

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Personality Psychologists

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Person who studies personality and it’s variation among individuals

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