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AP Psych Unit 1 Voc.
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Empiricism | The view that knowledge comes form experience via the sense and the idea that science flourishes through observation and experience |
| Structuralism | a method for the basic that searched for the basic elements of the mind |
| Functionalism | a method that tried to explain why we do what we do |
| Psychology | the science of behavior and mental process |
| Nature vs Nurture Issue | Controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the developmental of Psychological traits and behaviors |
| Natural Selection | among the range of traits variations =, those that lead to increased reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations |
| Basic Research | Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base |
| Applied Research | Scientific Study that aims to solve practical problems |
| Clinical Psychology | A branch of Psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psych. orders |
| Psychiatry | a branch of medicine dealing with psych. disorders; Physicians sometimes provide medical treatment as well as Psychological treatment |
| Hindsight Bias | the tendency to believe, after learning the outcome, that one would have foreseen it |
| Critical Thinking | thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. It examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence and assesses conclusions |
| Theory | an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations |
| Hypothesis | a testable prediction, often implied by a theory |
| Operational Definition | a statement of the procedures used to define research variables |
| Replication | repeating the essence of a research study |
| Case Study | An observation where one person is studied in hopes to reveal universal principles |
| Survey | a technique for ascertsining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of them |
| False Consensus Effect | the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors |
| Population | all the cases in a group, from which samples may be drawn for a study |
| Random Sample | A sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance on inclusion |
| Naturalistic Observation | observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation |
| Correlation Coefficient | a statistical measure of the extent to which two factors vary together and thus of how well either factor predicts each other |
| Scatter plot | a graphed cluster of dots, each of which represents the values of two variables. The slopes suggests the redirection of the relationship between the two variables |
| Illusory Correlation | The perception of a relationship where non exists |
| Experiment | A research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factor (independent variable) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process (dependent) |
| Double Blind Procedure | Experiment where both the research participants and and research staff are "blind". Commonly used in rug evaluations |
| Placebo Effect | experimental results caused by expectations alone |
| Experimental Condition | the condition of an experiment that exposes participants to the treatment to one version of the independent variable |
| Control Condition | the condition of an experiment that contrasts with the experimental condition and serves as a comparison for evaluating the effect of the treatment |
| Standard Deviation | A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score |
| Statistical Significance | A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance |
| Culture | the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted form one generation to another |
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