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Psychology twermies
twermies for psychos
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| psychology | the study of the mind and mental processes |
| cognitive activities | when the mind is consciously thinking about something |
| theory | a principal attempting to explain something,not a law |
| structualism | Wilhelm Wundt is the father of psychology; conscious experience breaks down into objective sensations and subjective feelings |
| functionalism | William James;beileved that experience is a continuous “stream of consciousness” Functionalism: investigate the function or purpose of consciousness instead of its structure included behavioral observation: why do we do the things we do? |
| psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud;thoughts,memories, and desires exist below conscious awareness and control our behavior,unconscious expressed in dreams and “slips of the tongue” |
| hypothesis | educated question about a topic |
| target population | the whole population you're trying to research |
| bias | feelings that sway the decisions of the people being researched |
| case study | a case study is an in depth investigation of an individual or small group psychologists use what they learn in a case study to generalize broader principles that apply to to the larger population problem: not valid |
| correlation | a measure of how closely one thing is related to another the stronger the correlation between two things, the more closely those things are related positive and negative |
| independent variable | the factor that is changing |
| dependent variable | factor that depends on the independent for results |
| control group | controlled variable |
| placebo | fake treatment; people beileve it works so they feel better |
| single blind study | used to eliminate the effects of bias and expectation participants in a study do not know if they are in the experimental or control group |
| double blind study | used for the same reason,but this time the researcher also needs to be unbiased both participants and experimenters are unaware of who receives the treatment |
| 7 perspectivies | biological,cognitive,evolutionary,humanistic,psychoanalytic,learning and sociocultureal |
| 8 main types of psychologists | clinical,school,educational,counseling,developmental,personality,social,experimental |
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