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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