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Human Behavior
Final Exam
| Definition | |
|---|---|
| William Wundt | established the first psychology lab (in germany) and studied how the mind worked |
| Edward B Titchner | Structuralism: breaking the mind into its basic parts (thoughts and feelings) to understand how it works |
| John B watson | behaviorism: observable actions/behaviors rather than thoughts and feelings |
| Carl Rogers | humanistic psychology: helping people grow with empathy and support |
| Jean Piaget | Cognitive development: How childrens thinking changes as they grow |
| G. Stanley Hall | Started the first psychology lab in the US and studied childhood devlopment/ adolescence |
| Mary Whiton Calkins | One of the first women in psychology, first female president of the APA |
| Margaret Floy Washburn | First woman to earn a PhD in psychology |
| Francis Cecil Sumner | First african american to earn a PhD in psychology |
| Kenneth Clark and Mamie Phillps Clark | Husband and wife that studied how racism effects children and helped influence the court decision in Brown v Board of education |
| Gestalt | the tendency to piece bits of information together |
| functionalism | how consciousess helps people adapt to their environment |
| psychoanalysis | study on personality that links our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflict |
| psychodynamic perspective | unconscious desires, childhood experiece and inner conflicts |
| Psychologist | Studies human thoughts, emotions and behaviors, provides therapay/counseling but cannot prescribe medication |
| Psychiatrist | Diagnoses and treats mental health disorders and prescribe medication |
| confirmation bias | searching for info that confirms your thinking |
| critical thinking | objective analysis to form a conclusion |
| Participant bias | research participants behave in a certain way because they are being observed |
| population | entire group that you want to know something about |
| naturalistic observation | watching people/animals in their natural habitat without interfereing |
| longitudinal study | following the same individuals overtime |
| cross-sectional study | comparing different age groups at oce |
| descriptive research | describing something as it is without changing or testing anything, gathering data |
| correlational research | relationship between two or more variables without implying cause |
| causual comparative research | compares different variables to establish a cause and effect relationship |
| experimental research | Testing one one thing affects another |
| operational definition | an explanation of an exact procedure |
| confounding variablea | a variable (other than the indepedent variable) that could change the dependent variable |
| hawthorne effect | the feeling that you're being watched impacts how you behave |
| john henry effect | people become competitive with other participants |
| novelty effect | trying something new/interesting may increase your motivation |
| halo effect | prior knowledge impacts the experiment |
| 4 guidelines for human research created by the APA | informed consent, protection from harm, confidentiality, debriefing |
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