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Psychology exam 1 over chapters 1,2 and 7

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What are the goals of psychology   to describe, predict, understand, and modify behavior  
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Willhelm Wundt   Opened the first psychological laboratory and started the movement to make psychology a science  
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Functionalism   An early psychological approach that focused on the function and purpose of behavior and consciousness (how and why)  
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Structuralism   An early psychological approach that focused on analysis of immediate experience into basic elements (what)  
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William James   An American philosopher, physician, and psychologist who was one of the leaders of functionalism  
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Sigmund Freud   The neurologist whose theories evolved into what is psychoanalysis  
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Psychoanalysis   A theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy that focuses on unconscious motives and conflicts  
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The 6 Psychological Perspectives   Biological, Learning, Cognitive, Sociocultural, Psychodynamic, and Evolutionary  
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Biological Perspective   How our biological structure effects our behavior  
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Learning Perspective   How environment and experience affect a person's or animal's actions  
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Cognitive Perspective   Explains thinking, memory, language, problem solving, and perceptions  
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Sociocultural Perspective   How social and cultural contexts affect behavior  
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Psychodynamic Perspective   How the unconscious affects us psychologically  
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Evolutionary Perspective   How evolution affect behavior  
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Psychologist   A therapist that goes to graduate school and cannot give medication  
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Psychiatrist   A therapist that goes to medical school and can prescribe medications and tends to focus on the biological side  
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Basic Psychology   To research psychological issues for knowledge for it's own sake  
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Applied Psychology   To research psychological issues for knowledge or take knowledge from basic psychology to apply it to treatment or such  
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Theoretical Constructs   Abstract phenomena, such as emotions or thoughts, that can only be inferred and not directly measurable  
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Operational Definitions   Precise terms that can measure theoretical constructs  
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What are the parts of a good theory   It is falsifiable, productive (makes more questions), and simple  
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Confirmation bias   the tendency to only look for information that confirms one's own belief  
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What make psychology a science   Precision,Skepticism, Empirical evidence, Risky predictions and openness  
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Representative sample   A group of participants that accurately represent the population that is being researched  
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Case Study   A in-depth study of an unique individual  
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Case study is useful when   Ethical issues don't allow experimentation of topic, a starting point for the study, or when the topic is rare  
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Convenience Sample   Taking a sample from a group that is available  
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Naturalistic Observation   Researching a group by observing them in their natural day to day lives and not interfering  
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Narrative Analysis   Describing what happened  
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Qualitative Observation   Describing  
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Quantitative Observation   Measuring  
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Population   Complete group that researcher is interested in studying  
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Correlational Study   A descriptive study that looks for a relationship between two phenomena  
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Correlational Studies cannot show cause and effect b/c   there could be a third variable and or directional misconceptions  
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Independent Variable (IV)   The variable that is manipulated  
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Dependent Variable(DV)   The variable that is measured to see the effect of the IV  
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Quasi-Experimental   Sample groups are decided based on how they are (divorced or married)  
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Participant   Someone who had data collected from them in a study  
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Positive Correlation   both variables increase.  
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Negative Correlation   One variable increases while the other one decreases.  
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Random Assignment   where the chance of an participant being in a group is not greater than any other participant.  
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Informed Consent   The participant must understand the experiment and it's risks to be able to make an informed decision on whether or not they want to be part of the experiment.  
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Assent   the child must agree to be in a experiment after the parents agree.  
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The IRB Process   An Institutional Review Board reviews the ethics and decided if a proposed experiment is worth the risk.  
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Respondent Conditioning   A neutral stimulus comes to elicit a reflexive response when it is associated with a stimulate that already produces that response.  
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Unconditioned Stimulus (UCR)   A stimulus that naturally causes the Unconditioned Response.  
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Unconditioned Response (UCS)   A response that is natually the result of a Unconditioned Stimulus.  
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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)   A stimulus that is trained to have a certain response  
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Conditioned Response (CR)   A response that is trained to result from a CS. The CR should be the same as the UCR used to train it.  
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Garcia Effect   Some tastes and smells are more easily associated with poison while some sights and sounds are more easily associated with shock  
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Extinction   a conditioned stimulus no longer elicits the conditioned response.  
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Spontaneous Recovery   A extinct stimulus once again elicits the conditioned response  
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Stimulus Generalization   What counts as a conditioned stimulus to cause a conditioned response broadens.  
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Stimulus Discrimination   A specific thing is the conditioned stimulus for the conditioned response.  
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Higher order conditioning   A neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus thought association with an established conditioned stimulus.  
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Operant Conditioning   The consequences of a behavior determine the likelihood that the behavior will or will not be performed in the future.  
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Reinforcement   Increases a behavior  
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Punishment   Decreases a behavior  
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Positive Reinforcement   Add something to increase a behavior  
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Negative Reinforcement   Take away something to increase a behavior  
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Positive Punishment   Add something to decrease a behavior.  
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Negative Punishment   take away something to decrease a behavior.  
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Radical Behaviorism   Only direct contact with a response teaches a response.  
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Discriminative Stimulus (SD)   Signal that a reinforcer is available.  
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Bandura's Social-Cognitive Theory of Observational Learning   We learn from watching other people.  
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Vicarious reinforcement   Learning or strengthening a behavior by observing the behavior of others and the consequences of the behavior .  
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Modeling   A behavior modification technique that involves observing the behaviors of others and participating with them in performing the desired behavior  
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