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PSY301 Test One

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Developmental Research   show
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Social Research   show
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Experimental Research   show
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Physioloigcal Research   show
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show higher mental processes (reasoning, problem solving)  
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show individual consistency in behavior  
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Psychometrics Research   show
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show comes from Freud’s studies of the unconscious mind, people are basically evil but have learned to be good in childhood  
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show people are basically good, people have a need for unconditional love and to be all that they can be, not having positive regards makes people bad during their childhood  
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show certain principles shape the way you see the world, ex. drive to be perfect creates anxiety and determination  
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show dominant research perspective, certain behavioral and personality traits are selected through evolution  
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show learned behavior becomes automatic, ex. marriage counselors make couples hold hands and go on dates and eventually they fall in love again  
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Biological Research Perspectives   show
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Fechner   show
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Wundt   show
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show “The Interpretation of Dreams”, focuses on unconscious mind, doesn't care why patients get better as long as they do  
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Binet and Simon   show
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Wertheimer   show
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show behaviorism, objective behavior, don’t make up pretty explanations, doesn’t mention the “mind” because that is too whishy washy  
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Tolman   show
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Skinner   show
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Rogers   show
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Chomsky   show
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show actions determined by past events  
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Positivism   show
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Materialism   show
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show understand the parts to understand the whole  
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show knowledge via sensory experience/observation, makes experimentation a reasonable thing to do  
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show body is hydraulic pump, mind & body are separate entities that interact thru pineal gland, innate ideas vs derived ideas  
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show "innate ideas" are simply ideas that were learned so early that it seems as if they have always been there  
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Von Helmholtz   show
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show his student debunks Clever Hans Horse, competitor of Wundt  
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Tichener   show
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show people can make honest mistakes in interpreting data, treats psychology as a natural sciences  
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show study what the mind does  
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Gestalt   show
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show take somebody’s words for it; authorities often disagree among themselves and are often wrong  
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show not necessarily superior to direct observation; ex. in syllogistic reasoning, if the basis of the logic is wrong, the assumption is wrong  
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show differs from place to place and time to time; only criterion for determining truth is whether or not it works, therefore cannot predict new knowledge  
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show accurately conveying the message received may be difficult; the message itself may be wrong; often time will rely on authority (religious leaders, palm readers); Ex. Shroom story!  
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Science   show
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Reality   show
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show world and universe is organized in a way that is understandable  
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Regularity   show
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Causality   show
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Discoverability   show
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show a theory can be proven and still called a theory, theory is simply an explanation  
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Hypothesis   show
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Gene   show
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genotype   show
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show the pattern of expression of the genotype  
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Monozygotic twins   show
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show twins derived from the simultaneous fertilization of two eggs, fraternal twins, different genotypes  
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show individuals possessing the same genotypes  
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show influenced by multiple genes  
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show increases as genetic diversity increases, decreases as environmental diversity increases,the extent to which genetic individual differences contribute to individual differences in observed behavior  
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tabula rasa   show
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