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Psych Unit 1 Part 1
Psych Unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is psychology? | The study of behavior and the mind |
| Critical thinking | Asserting ideas that examines assumptions within the ideas, appraises the sources, discerns biases, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions |
| William Wundt | Grandfather of psych, created the first psych lab, analytic introspection |
| Edward Titchener | Structuralism (train participants, not accurate) |
| William James | Made psych a science, created the first psych course at Harvard, functionalism |
| Functionalism | Examined the functions, behaviors, emotions, etc. of the mind. Looked at the evolution of the mind and the reasoning behind. |
| Mary Culkins | First woman in psych, first female president of APA, earned a phd in psych |
| Margaret Washburn | Second female president of APA, first female published in psych journal |
| Behaviorism | study of observable behaviors |
| Psychoanalytic therapy | Sigmund Freud, come in and talk for hours |
| What did Freud focus on? | The three-part mind. How childhood memories and trauma influence the adult. |
| Cognitive psychology | How the mind creates representations of the world. Allows us to determine the best behavioral pattern for goal attainment. |
| Cognitive neuroscience | Uses technology in order to determine what parts of the brain are responsible for specific cognitive functions |
| What are the three levels of analysis of biopsychosocial approach? | Biology, psychological, social-cultural |
| Biological influences | Genetic mutations, natural selection |
| Psychological influences | learned fears, emotional responses |
| Social-cultural influences | presence of other, various expectations |
| Applied research | interest in helping people |
| Basic research | interested in understanding |
| What are threats to critical thinking? | Hindsight bias, overconfidence, perceiving order in random events |
| Science | the pursuit and application of knowledge of the natural and social world based on evidence |
| Scientific method | Observation, question, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion, result, repeat |
| Theory | overarching idea that attempts to explain a psychological process |
| Hypothesis | a predication based on an observation or previous theory, tested |
| Operational Definitions | carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a study |
| Types of methods | Experimental, correlational, and descriptive |
| Descriptive | case study, naturalistic observation, survey, random sample |
| Correlation | Interested in the relationship between two variables, predict behavior |
| Experimentation | cause and effect determination, change one factor to gain a result |
| Independent variable | manipulated behavior |
| Dependent variable | behavior that effected, outcome |
| Double blind procedures | limits the bias of researchers and participants |
| What research technique is used in all types of methods? | Random Sample |
| What is not a valid source of information? | social media |
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