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Psychology test1

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structuralism school of psychology that stresses the basic units of experience and the combinations in which they occur edward titchener
functionalism theory of mental life and behavior that is concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities to function in its enviornment william james
psychodynamic theory personality theories contending that behavior results from psychological factors that interact within the individual sigumund freud
behviorism school of psychology that studies only observable and measurable behavior bf skinner and john watson
gestalt psychology school of psychology that studies how people perceive and experience objects as a whole max wertheimer
humanistic psychology school of psychology that emphasizes non verbal experience and altered states of consciousness abraham and carl
cognitive psychology school of psychology devoted to the study of mental processes in the broadest sense aaron and albert
evolutionary psychology an approach to and subfield of psychology that is concerned with the evolutionary orgins of behaviors and mental processes david buss
correlation two phenomena seem to be related
independent variable this variable is manipulated to test its effects on the other dependent variables
dependent variable this variable is measured to see how it is changed by manipulations in the independent variable
experimental group the group is subjected to a change in the independent variable
control group the group not subjected to a change in the independent variable
central tendency tendency of scores to congregate around some middle value
mean average calculated by dividing a sum of values by the total number of cases
median point that divides a set of scores in half
mode point at which the largest number of scores occurs
range difference between the largest and smallest number
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