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Flash Cards for Psychology Final

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Psychology   show
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show 1. If things happen for no reason how can we learn 2. every event has cause 3. doubts all claims not supported by evidence 4. evaluate info carefully 5. free bias. What does data support and not your beliefs 6. willingness to change  
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Goals of Scientific Research:   show
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show citing of observable characteristics  
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show describe only relevant items  
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Precise   show
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show definitions in terms of the procedures used to measure or produce. Everyone knows exactly what you mean, no misunderstanding  
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show testable prediction about relationship between two or more factors  
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show statements that summarize/explain research finding and from which hypotheses are derived  
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Predictions   show
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Control   show
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Experimental Control   show
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Everyday Control   show
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Explanation   show
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Scientific Method   show
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show summarizes data. This might include mean or variability  
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show compare groups  
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show Descriptive; Correlational; Experimental; Biological  
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Descriptive Research   show
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No causation or prediction   show
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Natiralistic Observation   show
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show Spend a lot of time with people you are researching most likely living with them  
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show looking at historical trends  
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show examination of one person or small group of people  
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Correlational Research   show
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show degree of relationship between two or more variables  
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show 2 variables change in same direction, one increases so does the other  
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Negative Correlation coefficient   show
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Range   show
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show causal relationship  
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show everyone who could be involved in your research  
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show accuately reflects characteristics of population  
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show each participant in population is equally likely to be chosen  
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Convienience Sample   show
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Independent Variable   show
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Dependent Variable   show
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show expose to IV  
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show not exposed to IV  
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Extraneous variable   show
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Experimenter bias   show
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show neither experimenter nor participant knows what group they are in  
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Ethnocentrism   show
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show participant tries to do what they think experimenter wants  
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show AKA participant bias  
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Biological Research   show
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Lesions   show
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Mid 1800's   show
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Currently   show
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show Informed consent and voluntary participation; Use of deception; Confidentiality; Student participants  
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Informed consent and voluntary participation   show
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show May have outlived usefulness; • What’s an obvious problem with using deception? After experiment you have to inform them the nature of what you just did; Debriefing  
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show students can never be forced to participate in psych experiments  
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Historical Perspectives in Psychology   show
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show Structure of concious experience  
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show first psychological lab in 1879  
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