the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should rely on observation and experimentation

Edward Branford Titchener's early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind

a school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function...adapt, survive

as the science of behavior and mental processes

contravercy over the contributions that genes and experience make to development of psycholoigcal traits and behaviors

clinical psychologist

study, assess, and treat troubled people

medical doctors- can prescribe drugs

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

operational defination

statements of the procedures used to define research variables

when psychologist study one individual in great depth in the hope of revealing things true of us all

false consensus effect

the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors

correlation coefficient

a statistical measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and of how well either factor predicts the other

the perceptiion of a relationship where none exists

double-blind procedure

experimental procedure in which both reserch participants and the research staff are ignorant about whether the research particapants have recieved the treatment or placebo

experimental results caused by expectations alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an inert substance or condition, which is assumed to be an active agent

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prologue/ ch. 1

ap. psych. vocab

word	definition
empiricism	the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should rely on observation and experimentation
structuralism	Edward Branford Titchener's early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind
functionalist	a school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function...adapt, survive
psychology	as the science of behavior and mental processes
nature-nurture	contravercy over the contributions that genes and experience make to development of psycholoigcal traits and behaviors
clinical psychologist	study, assess, and treat troubled people
psychiatrist	medical doctors- can prescribe drugs
hindsight bias	the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome that one would have forseen it.
operational defination	statements of the procedures used to define research variables
case study	when psychologist study one individual in great depth in the hope of revealing things true of us all
false consensus effect	the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors
correlation coefficient	a statistical measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and of how well either factor predicts the other
illusory correlation	the perceptiion of a relationship where none exists
double-blind procedure	experimental procedure in which both reserch participants and the research staff are ignorant about whether the research particapants have recieved the treatment or placebo
placebo efeect	experimental results caused by expectations alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an inert substance or condition, which is assumed to be an active agent

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