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Chapter 1

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show Human behavior is determined by what a person has learned primarily through rewards and punishments  
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show How the brain take in and processes info, creates perceptions, makes and retrieves memories and generates patters of action.  
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Humanistic Approach   show
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show scientific study of behavior and the mind (mental processes)  
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show Scientific method= gather evidence, perform experiments, analyze results, draw conclusions, and apply findings.  
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British Empiricism   show
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show understanding vision and other senses  
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Evolutionary Approach   show
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show Focused on identifying the building blocks of consciousness and looking within.  
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show Used building blocks toward the consciousness and studied the structure of it. (structuralism)  
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show described the organization of consciousness and principles of perceptual organization. argued against structuralism= the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.  
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show explain personality and behavior through psychological processes. Importance of childhood in development of personality. Consciousness and unconscious components of the mind.  
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show Studied how the conscious mind allows and organism to survive and adapt to the environment, influenced by Charles Darwin (functionalism)  
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show Study only observable behavior, the mind can't be observed (science)  
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show Radical behaviorism meant that all organismic action is determined and not free.  
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Biological Approach   show
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Psychodynamic Approach   show
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Critical Thinking   show
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show a specific testable prediction about some phenomenon  
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show Set of formal statements that explains how and why certain events are related to each other  
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show organizes info in a meaningful way, testable and generates new hypothesis, supported by research, simple is better (Law of Parsimony)  
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show any characteristic or factor that you can vary  
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show Defines a variable in terms of the specific procedures used to produce or measure the variable  
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show usually numbers that represent facts used as a basis for reasoning, reaching conclusions, and analysis.  
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Participants   show
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Naturalistic Observation   show
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show Large amounts of uncontaminated descriptive data about behavior  
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Disadvantage of Naturalistic Observation   show
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Case Study   show
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Advantage Case Study   show
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show may not represent the phenomena  
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Surveys   show
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show Gathering descriptive data, learning about opinions  
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Disadvantage of Surveys   show
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show Two variables that impact each other  
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Positive correlation   show
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show as one variable gets high the other gets low  
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show Study variables that cannot be manipulated  
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show does not imply causation  
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Experimental Design   show
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show The factor that is manipulated or controlled by the experimenter  
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show The factor that is measured and may be influenced by independent variable  
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Confound   show
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Control Group   show
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Experiment Group   show
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Random Assignment   show
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Quasi- Experiment   show
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show People receive treatment they show a change in behavior because of their expectations, not because of the treatment itself.  
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show the subtle and unintentional ways researchers influence their participants to respond in a certain manner that is consistent with their hypothesis  
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show Participant and experimenter are kept blind as to which experimental condition the participant is in  
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show Average of a set of scores  
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Median   show
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Mode   show
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Range   show
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show Describe or summarize the main characteristics of the sample  
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Inferential Stats   show
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show Indicates whether a measured relationship is due to chance or not. No more than 5% occurring by chance.  
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show Informed consent, avoid unnecessary risk to participant, avoid deception unless necessary, debriefing.  
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Standard Deviation   show
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Statistical Validity   show
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show The degree to which test results or other research evidence occurs repeatedly  
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show separate from others, self-defined, success comes from personal effort, personal traits  
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show Connected to others, Defined by others, ability to restrain the self and be part of social, success is due to others, family work group  
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