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What is psychology

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The scientific study of the mind, brain and behavior

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What makes psychology challenging and rewarding?

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1.Human behavior is difficult to predict
2.Psychological influences are rarely independent of each other
3. Individual differences among people
4. People influence one another
5. Behavior is shaped by culture

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Naive realism

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The belief that we see the world precisely as it actually is in truth

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Hypothesis

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A specific prediction based on a theory which can then be tested

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Emic vs etic

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Emic is the study of behavior of a native from an insiders perspective

Etic is study of behavior from an outsiders perspective

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Empiricism

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The premise that knowledge should initially be acquired through observation

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Confirmation bias mother of biases

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The tendency to seek out evidence that supports our beliefs and deny dismiss or distort evidence that contradicts them

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Belief perseverance

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Tendency to stick to our initial beliefs even when evidence contradicts them

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Pseudoscience

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A set of claims that seem scientific but aren’t

Lacks safeguards against confirmation bias n belief perseverance

Testable beliefs not supported by evidence

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Warning signs of pseudoscience

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Ad hoc immunizing hypotheses
Lack of self correction
Over reliance on anecdotes

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Apophenia

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Finding connections among unrelated or random phenomenon

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Pareidoila

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Seeing meaningful images in meaningful visual stimuli

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Emotional reasoning fallacy

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Using emotion rather than evidence as the guide

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Bandwagon fallacy

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Lots of people believe it so it must be true

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Not me fallacy

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Other people may have those biases but not me

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Pseudoscience disadvantages

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Dangerous
Opportunity cost
Direct harm
Inability to think scientifically

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Critical thinking

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A set of skills for evaluating all claims in a open minded and careful fashion

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Critical thinking principles

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Ruling out rival hypotheses (alternate explanation for considered finding)

Correlation vs causation ( can we be sure a cause b)

Falsifiability
Can the claim be disproven

Replicability (duplication)

Extraordinary Claims (convincing evidence)

Occam’s razor or KISS
Does a simpler explanation fit the data just as well

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Frameworks that shape psychology

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Structuralism (Wundt n EB titchner
Functionalism (William James)
Behaviorism (Watson and skinner)
Cognitivism (Piaget and neisser)
Psychoanalysis (Freud and Jung)

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Structuralism

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Insistence of systematic data collection and empiricism

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Functionalism

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Influence of evolutionary theory on modern psych

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Behaviorism

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Helped to understand how we learn and the importance of scientific rigor

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Cognitivism

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Focus on not only reward or punishers but on our interpretation of events

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Psychoanalysis

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May have actually retarded scientific advances of clinical psych but Theories of mental processing outside of conscious awareness are holding up

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Types of psychologists

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Clinical
Counseling
School
Developmental
Experimental
Bio psychologists
Forensic

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Two debates

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Nature vs nurture
Free will determinism

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Broad categories or research

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Basic - how the mind works
Applied - how we use basic research to solve real world problems

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Founder of psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud

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Founder of modern psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

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First phd female first female Apa president

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Mary whiton calkins

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Founder of behaviorism

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John B Watson

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Famous psychologist; behaviorism focused on responses

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B.F Skinner

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Author of first psychology text book

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William James

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First American male earn a phd in Psyc opened first lab in US; first apa president

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G Stanley hall

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First African American female to earn phd in psychology

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Inez Beverly prosser

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Developmental and cognitive psychologist

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Jean Piaget

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First African American male psychology phd recipient

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Francis Cecil summer

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Cognitive biases

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Systematic error in thinking
Hindsight bias
Overconfidence

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Scientific method tools

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Naturalistic observations
Case study designs
Self report measure and surveys
Random selection
Evaluating measures
Rating data
Correlational designs
Scatterplots

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Naturalistic observation

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Watching behavior in a real world setting
High external validity (generalize our findings to the real world)
Low internal validity (extent in which we can draw cause n effect interferences)

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Case study designs

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Studying one person or a small number of people for an extended period of time

Common w brain damage n mental illness

Provide existence proofs but may be misleading and anecdotal

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Self report measures and surveys

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Questionnaires that assess characteristics such as personality or mental illness

Survey are peoples opinions or abilities

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Random selection

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Key to generalizability

Ensure every person in a population has an equal chance of being chosen to participate

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Evaluating measures

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To trust results measures must have
Reliability - consistency of measurement
Validity - extent to which a measure assesses what it claims to measure

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Self report measures

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Pros
Easy to administer
Direct self assessment of persons state

Cons
Accuracy is skewed for certain groups (narcissists)
Potential for dishonesty
Response sets - tendency to distort their responses
Positive impression management
Malingering

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Rating data

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People can be asked to rate others on different characteristics

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Correlational designs

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Examine how two variables are related

Illusory correlation- perception of a statistical association where none exists

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Determining causation

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The only way to determine if one thing is casually related to another is via an experimental design

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What makes a study an experiment?

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Random assignment to the
Experimental group n control group

Manipulation of an independent variable

Confounds - any difference between the experimental and control groups aside from IV

Cause and effect - infer w/ random assignment n manipulation of IV

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Pitfalls of experimental design

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Placebo effect
Nocebo effect
Experimenter expectancy effect
Demand characteristics

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Ethical guidelines

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Institutional review board
Informed consent
Justification of deception
Debriefing of subjects afterwards

IACUC - institutional animal care and use committee

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