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Intro Psych II

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Term
Definition
show to be produced by MANY actions  
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Psychology   show
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Reciprocal Determinism   show
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Individual Differences   show
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Naive Realism   show
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show an explanation for a large number of findings in the natural world  
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Hypothesis   show
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show the tendency to seek out evidence that supports our hypothesis and deny, dismiss, or distort evidence that contradicts them  
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Belief Perseverence   show
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Metaphysical Claim   show
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show a systematic APPROACH to evidence  
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show a method by which trained observers carefully reflect on their mental experiences  
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Structuralism   show
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show depended on the notion that everything could be solved via introspection  
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Functionalism   show
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show principle that organisms that possess adaptations survive and reproduce at a higher rate than do other organisms  
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Behaviorism (Black Box Psychology)   show
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show a school of psychology that proposes that thinking is central to understanding behavior  
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Cognitive Neuroscience   show
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show a school of psychology, founded by Freud, that focuses on internal psychological processes of which we are unaware  
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show a discipline that applies Darwin's theory of natural selection to human and animal behavior  
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show research examining how the mind works  
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Applied Research   show
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show a set claims that seems scientific but isn't  
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show In contrast to metaphysical claims, pseudoscience CAN be tested  
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show an loophole that defenders of a theory use to protect their theory from falsification  
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Patternicity   show
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show a theory proposing that our awareness of our death leaves us with an underlying sense of terror which we cope by adopting reassuring cultural worlvdiews  
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show the error of using our emotions as a guides for evaluating the validity of a claim  
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Bandwagon Fallacy   show
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Not Me Fallacy   show
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show the error of accepting a claim merely because an authority figure endorses it  
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Either-Or Fallacy   show
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show the error of confusing the correctness of a belief with its time period of origin  
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Argument from Antiquity Fallacy   show
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Appeal to Ignorance Fallacy   show
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show the error of drawing a conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence  
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Bias Blind Spot   show
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Scientific Skepticism   show
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show a set of skills for evaluating all claims in an open-minded and careful fashion  
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show the error of assuming that because one thing is associated with another that it must cause the other  
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show anything that can vary  
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show capabile of being disproved  
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show when a study's findings are able to be duplicated  
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show the fact that the size of certain psychological findings seem to be shrinking over time  
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Prefrontal Lobotomy   show
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System I Thinking   show
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System II Thinking   show
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Heuristic   show
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show watching behavior in real-world settings without trying to manipulate the situation  
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External Validity   show
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show the extent to which we can draw cause-and-effect inferences from a study  
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Case Study   show
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show a demonstration that a given psychological phenomenon can occur  
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show a procedure that ensures every person in a population has an equal chance of being chosen to participate  
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Reliability   show
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Test-Retest Reliability   show
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show the extent to which different observers agree on the characteristics they're measuring  
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Validity   show
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Response Set   show
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Correlational Design   show
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show a grouping of points on a two-dimensional graph in which each dot represents a single person's data  
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Illusory Correlation   show
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show a research design characterized by random assignment of participants to conditions and manipulation of an independent variable  
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show randomly sorting participants into groups  
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show the group that receives the manipulation  
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show the group that doesn't receive manipulation  
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Independent Variable   show
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Dependent Variable   show
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Operational Definition   show
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Placebo Effect   show
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show unaware of whether one is in the experimental or control group  
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Nocebo Effect   show
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show a phenomenon in which researchers' hypotheses lead them to unintentionally bias the outcome of a study  
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show when neither researchers nor participants are aware of who's in the experimental or control group  
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show cues that participants pick up from a study that allow them to generate guesses regarding the researcher's hypotheses  
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show informing research participants of what is involved in a study before asking them to participate  
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Statistics   show
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Descriptive Statistics   show
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show measure of the "central" scores in a data set of where the group tends to cluster  
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