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Quiz 1

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William James   Harvard University Philosopher and psychologist, publishes The Principle of Psychology, describing psychology as "the science of mental life"  
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Sigmund Freud   Publishes The Interpretation of dreams, his major work on psychoanalysis.  
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Abraham Maslow   A twentieth century psychologist who has written extensively on the necessary spiritual development of humans  
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Ivan Pavlov   begins publishing studies of conditioning in animals.  
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B.F. Skinner   publishes The behavior of Organism, which describes operant conditioning of animals.  
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John B. Watson   Outlines the principle of behaviorism in a "Psychological Review" article, "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It."  
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Willhelm Wundt   Establishes at the University of Leipzig Germany, the first psychological laboratory.  
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Jean Piaget   Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children  
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Behaviorism   The view of psychology (1)should be an objective science that (2)studies behavior without reference to mental processes  
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Structuralism   An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the element structure of the human mind.  
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Functionalism   A school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavior processes function, how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish.  
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Humanistic Psychology   Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized method to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth.  
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Replication   Repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participant in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other circumstances  
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Correlation   A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other.  
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Scatterplot   A graphed cluster of dots, each of which represent the values of two variables.  
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Random Assignment   Assigning participant to experimental and control conditions by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different group.  
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Placebo Effect   Experiment result caused by expectations alone; any effect on behavior cause by the administration of an inert substance or condition, which is assumed to be an active ageng  
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Operational Definition   A statement of the procedures use to define research variables.  
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Independent Variable   The experiment factor that is manipulated  
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Dependent Variable   The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulation of the independent variable  
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