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PSYC Ch 1
Ivy Tech class
Question | Answer |
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Wundt came up with | objective introspective |
what is objective introspective? | examining and measuring your own thoughts |
Margaret Washburn | first woman to earn a Ph. D in Psychology |
What are psychology's 4 goals? | Description, Explanation, Prediction, Control |
Structuralism is | focused on structure or basic elements of the mind |
Functionalism is | how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play |
Behaviorism is | the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only |
Ivan Pavlov experimented on | dogs |
Humanists held the view that | people have free will |
Self-actualization is | achieving one’s full potential or actual self. |
one type of descriptive research is | Laboratory observation |
one type of descriptive research is | Naturalistic observation |
one type of descriptive research is | Surveys |
one type of descriptive research is | case studies |
Correlation is | a measure of the relationship between two variables |
Correlation does not | prove causation |
Experimenter effect | the experimenter's expectations alter the results |
Placebo effect | Expectations on the studied can pressure them to act differently then they normally would |