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Chapter 1 & 2 - Introduction & Research Methods

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Sociobiological Theory   (Evolutionary psychology) physical structure & behavior of an organism - Ex. We like sweet food because when food was scarce, sweeter fruits gave more calories to survive on. (what was advantageous long time ago?)  
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Sociocultural Theory   Thoughts, believes, values, manners and behaviors shaped by the culture in which we grow up. Defines the norm.  
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Learning Theory   Learning a behavior based on positive and negative consequences. Ex. touch a hot stove, experience pain - learns to avoid hot things. John Watson - Little Albert conditioned animals Albert Bandura - Bobo Doll aggression  
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Social Cognitive Theory   (Thought)behavior in terms of beliefs, attitudes, affect, and motivation - Ex. you answer a phone when it rings because it means someone's calling, you believe you can hold a convo, motivated to answer, because of positive attitude towards caller.  
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Naturalistic Observation   Collecting information without participant's awarness  
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Structured Observation   Observing a participant's behavior in a set up situation  
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Self-Report   Participants provide information/responses about self  
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Controlled Experiment   Researchers create controlled environment where they can carefully manipulate one variable to measure its effects  
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Longitudinal   Collecting data periodically from same participants over a long period of time  
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Cross-Sectional   Gathering information on participants of different ages and looks for differences between groups  
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Case Study   Detailed analysis of a particular person, group, etc.  
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Archival   Examining data that has already been collected for other purposes  
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Selection Bias   Creating groups in a study that differ in more than the intended way - (Random Assignment - equal chance of being in the experimental or control group)  
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Placebo Effect   Experiencing what your mind expect to rather than what is really happening - (Placebo Control - fake something)  
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Rosenthal Effect   Researcher's own expectations of what results should be influencing how participants are treated,aka researcher's bias (Double Blind Procedure)  
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Demand Characteristics   Changing of behavior in accordance to what would be considered "good" or "correct" by researchers (make participants blind to purpose of actual study and researchers treat all the same way)  
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Social Desirability   Offering socially desirable responses or behaviors in fear of negative social judgement (stress importance of honesty)  
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Random Selection (in Sampling)   How you draw the sample of people from a population Most related to external validity (generalizability) of results - better represent the larger group from which they're drawn  
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Random Assignment (experimental design)   How you assign the sample that you draw to different groups or treatments in your study Most related to internal validity - helps assure that our treatment groups are similar to each other or equal prion to the treatment.  
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Positive Correlation   As one increases, the other one increases too Ex. number of hours of sleep & GPA (more sleep, higher GPA)  
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Negative Correlation   As one increases, the other one decreases Ex. number of hours of sleep & level of anxiety (more sleep = less anxious)  
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Operationalization   Process of defining variables into measurable factors. Defines fuzzy concepts so they can be measures, empirically and quantitatively.  
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Conceptual Variable   Expressed in general, subjective, qualitative terms Objective definition is required to measure  
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Operational Variable   Subjective - quantitative - not Describes what is being measured and how  
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External Validity   Extent to which findings from a study generalize to the population  
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Probability Sampling   All elements in the population have some opportunity of being included in the sample  
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Convenience Sampling   Researchers use any individual avaliable  
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