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ap. psych. vocab

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empiricism   the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should rely on observation and experimentation  
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structuralism   Edward Branford Titchener's early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind  
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functionalist   a school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function...adapt, survive  
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psychology   as the science of behavior and mental processes  
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nature-nurture   contravercy over the contributions that genes and experience make to development of psycholoigcal traits and behaviors  
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clinical psychologist   study, assess, and treat troubled people  
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psychiatrist   medical doctors- can prescribe drugs  
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hindsight bias   the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome that one would have forseen it.  
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operational defination   statements of the procedures used to define research variables  
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case study   when psychologist study one individual in great depth in the hope of revealing things true of us all  
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false consensus effect   the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors  
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correlation coefficient   a statistical measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and of how well either factor predicts the other  
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illusory correlation   the perceptiion of a relationship where none exists  
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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  
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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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