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Unit 1: Approaches to Psychology ch. 1&2

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Psychology   show
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Physiological   show
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Cognitive   show
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show Description, Explanation, Prediction, & Influence.  
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Scientific Method   show
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show Question, Hypothesis, Experiment, results, conclusions, and theory.  
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Psychiatry   show
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show A psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth.  
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Psychoanalyst   show
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show A psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment.  
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show A psychologist who studies how physical and chemical changes in our bodies influence our behavior.  
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Sociocultural Psychology   show
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show A psychologist who diagnoses and treats people with emotional disturbances.  
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Developmental Psychologist   show
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show A psychologist who is concerned with helping students learn.  
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show A psychologist who may work in a mental health or social welfare agency.  
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show A psychologist who uses psychological concepts to make the workplace a more satisfying environment for employees and managers.  
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show The small group of participants, out of the total number available, that a researcher studies.  
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Naturalistic Observation   show
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show Research method that involves an intensive investigation of one or more participants.  
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show Research method in which data is collected about a group of participants over a number of years to assess how certain characteristics change or remain the same during development.  
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Cross-Sectional Study   show
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show The measure of relationship between two variables or sets of data.  
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Representative Sample   show
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Independent Variable   show
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show Any factor that is capable of change.  
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show An educated guess about the relationship between two variables.  
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show The group to which an independent variable is applied.  
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Control Group   show
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Dependent Variable   show
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show A test, trial, or tentative procedure; an act or operation for the purpose of discovering something unknown or of testing a principle, supposition, etc.: a chemical experiment; a teaching experiment; an experiment in living.  
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Ethical Guidelines   show
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show A situation in which a researcher's expectations influence that person's own behavior, and thereby influence the participant's behavior.  
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Single-blind experiment   show
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show An experiment in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know which participants received which treatment.  
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show A change in a participant's illness or behavior that results from a belief that the treatment will have an effect, rather than the actual treatment.  
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show The mode is the most frequent score. The mean is what most people think of as an average and is the most commonly used measure of central tendency. The median is the middle score. Distributions with two modes are called bimodal.  
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