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Unit Zero Vocab Flashcards

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The scienticfic study of behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

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A historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthly people

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Humanistic Psychology

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A scientific study of OBSERVABLE behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning

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Behavioral Psychology

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Hint; Genetic, neural, hormonal

The scientific study of the links between biological and psychological

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Biological Psychology

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The scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

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Cognitive Psychology

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The study of the evolution of behavior and mind, using principles of natural selection

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Evolutionary Psychology

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PAST

A branch of psychology that studies how the unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorder

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Psychodynamic psychology

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CULTURE

The study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking

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Social-Culture psychology

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An intergrated approach that incorparates biological, psychological, and socal-cultural levels of analysis

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Biopsychsocial approach

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shared beliefs, expectations, rules, values and behaviors that are considered typical, acceptables, or appropriate within a group or society

Why is this bad for reseachers?

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Cultural Norms

Because reseacher can misinterpt behaviorsor the group they are reseachi

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A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence

Why is this bad for reseachers?

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Confirmation Bias

Not looking at opposing evidence

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I knew it all along!

The tenddency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.

Why is this bad for reseachers?

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Hindsight Bias

Getting wrong results

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The tendency to be confident than correct- to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements

Why is this bad for reseachers?

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Overconfidence

Overestimate their knowledge and skip details and info

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A testable prediction

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Hypothesis

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A theory or hypothesis is considered ____________ if it can be proven false through evidence.

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Falsifiable

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A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a reseach study

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Operational Definitions

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

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Experimental group

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In an experiment, the group NOT exposed to treatment

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Control group

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The experimental factor that is manipulated: variable being studied

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Independent Variable

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The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations

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Dependent Variable

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A factor other than the factor being studied that might influence a study’s results

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Confounding Variables

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Results based on expectation of the treatment

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Placebo

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A procedure in which participants are unaware of the experimental conditions under which they are operating

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Single-Blind

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Drug evaluations

A procedure in which both the participants and the experiments interacting with them are unaware of the particular experimental conditions.

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Double Blind

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A subset of a population

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Sample

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All those in a group being studied, from which samples must be drawn

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Population

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The selection of study from a larger group in an unbiased way, such that the sample obtained accuratly reflects the total population

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Representative Sample

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A process for selecting a sample of study participants from a larger potential group of individuals, such that each person has the same fixed probability of being included in the sample

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Random Sampling

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Any process for selecting a sample of individuals or cases that is neither random nor systematic but rather is governed by chance or ready availability

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Convenience Sampling

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To generalize from a few vivid, but unrepresentative cases
HANDPICKING

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Sampling Bias

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Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, thus minimizing pre exisiting differences between the different groups

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Random assignment

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The extent to which results or findings obtained from a sample are applicable to a broader population

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Generalizablilty

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The bias or tendency of individuals to present themselves in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others

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Social Desirability Bias

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Referring to a variable, study, or analysis that involves a method of inquiry based on descriptive data without the use of numbers

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Qualitative Data

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Involving the use of numerical measurement system to analyze data

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Quantitative Data

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The evaluation of scientific or academic work, such as research or articles submitted to journals for publication, by other qualified professionals practicing in the same field

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Peer Review

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Repeating the essence of a reseach study, usually with different participants in different situations

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Replication

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ACCURATE

The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to

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Validity

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The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores

Ex: dipping a thermometer in water multiple times

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Reliability

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_________contributes to a result. In non-experimental research, they are not manipulated or controlled

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Variables

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A descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles

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Case Study

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A measure of the extent to which two variables change TOGETHER, and thus of how well either variable predicts the other

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Correlation

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A quantitative technique that combines the results of multiple studies on the same topic to form a single, objective conclusion

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Meta- Analysis

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Observing and recording behavior in naturally occuring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation

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Naturalistic Observation

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A research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process

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Experimental

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In correlation research, the situation in which it is known that two variables are related although it is not known which is the cause and which is the effect

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Directionality Problem

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When two variables, a and b, are found to be postively and negatively correlated, it does not nessarily mean that one causes the other: It may be that changes in an unmeaured or unintened thir variable, c, are causing random and coincidental relationship between the two variables

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Third Variable Problem

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A technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or bahaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of the group

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Survey Technique

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People may not give answers that are fully correct either because they do not know the full answer or because they seek to make a good impression

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Self Report Bias

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A committee named by an agency or institution to review reseach proposals originating within that agency for ethical acceptability and compliance with this organizations codes of conduct

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Institutional Review Board

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An ethical prinicple that reseach participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate

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Informed consent

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An ethical principle that involoves obtaining agreement to participate in a study from particpants who are not leagally able to provide informed consent

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Informed Assent

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An ethical principle that requires reseachers to protect and create safeguards fro participants from physical, mental, and/or emotional harm

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Protection from Harm

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An ethical principle that requires reseachers to limit the disclosure of a participants identifiable information

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Confidentiality

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Any distortion of or withholding of fact with the purpose of misleading others

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Deception

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In an experimental situation, an aide of the experimenter who poses as a participant but whose behavior is rehearsed prior to the experiment

EX: an actor in an experiment

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Research confederate

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The process of providing participants with a fuller explanation of the study, after it have been completed; including its purpose and any deceptions

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Debriefing

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Adding the scores and then diving by the number of scores

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Mean

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The middle score: half above, half below

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Median

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The most frequent occuring number

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Mode

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The differnece between the highest and lowest scores

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Range

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A symetrical, bell-shaped curve that decribes the distribution of many types of data (68-95-98)

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Normal curve

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The degree of variance or dispersion (spread) of values that is obtained for a specific variable

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Variation

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The degree to which a set of scores, measurements, or other numbers are asymmetrically distruted around a central point

Think: about how a normal curve shifts

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Skewness

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A set of scores with two peaks or modes around which values tend to cluster

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Bimodel distribution

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A measure of the variability of a set of scores or values within a group, indicating how narrowly or broadly they deviate from the mean

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Standard deviation

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A statistical measure used to indicate the relative standing of a score within a group

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Percentile Rank

68
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The tendency for extremely high or low scores to fall back (closer to the mean) upon retesting over time

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Regression Toward The Mean

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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

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Scatterplot

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A numerical index reflecting the degree of linear relationship between two variables. (-1, 0, 1)

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Correlation Coefficient

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A statisticial measure of magnitude strength or meaningfulness of a relationship between two variable
(small >.2, medium .2-.5, large <.5)

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Effect size

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a degree to which research outcome cannot be resonably be attributed to the operation of chance or random factors

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Statitsical Significance

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