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AP Psychology Chp. 1
Quiz 1
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| William James | Harvard University Philosopher and psychologist, publishes The Principle of Psychology, describing psychology as "the science of mental life" |
| Sigmund Freud | Publishes The Interpretation of dreams, his major work on psychoanalysis. |
| Abraham Maslow | A twentieth century psychologist who has written extensively on the necessary spiritual development of humans |
| Ivan Pavlov | begins publishing studies of conditioning in animals. |
| B.F. Skinner | publishes The behavior of Organism, which describes operant conditioning of animals. |
| John B. Watson | Outlines the principle of behaviorism in a "Psychological Review" article, "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It." |
| Willhelm Wundt | Establishes at the University of Leipzig Germany, the first psychological laboratory. |
| Jean Piaget | Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children |
| Behaviorism | The view of psychology (1)should be an objective science that (2)studies behavior without reference to mental processes |
| Structuralism | An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the element structure of the human mind. |
| Functionalism | A school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavior processes function, how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish. |
| Humanistic Psychology | Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized method to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth. |
| Replication | Repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participant in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other circumstances |
| Correlation | A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other. |
| Scatterplot | A graphed cluster of dots, each of which represent the values of two variables. |
| Random Assignment | Assigning participant to experimental and control conditions by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different group. |
| Placebo Effect | Experiment result caused by expectations alone; any effect on behavior cause by the administration of an inert substance or condition, which is assumed to be an active ageng |
| Operational Definition | A statement of the procedures use to define research variables. |
| Independent Variable | The experiment factor that is manipulated |
| Dependent Variable | The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulation of the independent variable |
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