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Chapter 1 Study Guide

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What are 3 phase of psychology? Introspection, Structuralism & Functionalism What was the study of psychology at this time?   show
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Define Scientific Method   show
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Define Behavior   show
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Define Mental processes   show
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Define Hypothesis   show
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Define Theory   show
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Identify a CASE STUDY: In-depth study of one or a few individuals using observation, interview and/or psychological testing. CASE STUDY Pro's and Con's?   show
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Identify a SURVEY: Interviews or questionaires used to gather info. about attitudes, beliefs, experiences, or behaviors of groups of people   show
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show Natural PRO'S: Natural setting Natural CON"S: No Control over conditions Lab PRO'S: Control & use precise equipment LAB CON'S: Maybe expensive & Not generalize to real world settings  
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Identify an EXPERIMENT: Random assignment of participants to groups. Manipulation of the independent variable(s) and measurement of the effect on the dependent variable   show
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show The scientific study of behavior and mental processes  
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Placebo   show
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Psychoanalysis   show
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show INDEPENDENT: A factor or condition that is deliberately manipulated to determine whether it causes any change in another behavior or condition. DEPENDENT: The measurement of the result  
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show PRO's: Useful in making predictions when impossible for ethical reason. Studies can be done fairly quickly. CON's: A correlation can't be used to support the conclusion that either variable causes the other.  
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show Experiment group- The group that is exposed to an independent variable. Control group-  
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show Wilhelm Wundt the father of psychology  
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show Student of Wundt, Englishman Edward Bradford Titchener  
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show Charles Darwin  
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Humanistic Uniqueness of human beings and capacity for choice, growth and psychological health   show
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show John B Watson BF Skinner  
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Cognitive see humans as active participants in their enviorment studies mental process such as memory problem solving reasoning decision making preception language and other forms of cognitive   show
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Physiological aka Biological looks for links between specific behaviors and equally specific biological processes that often explain individual differences   show
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show Tweed & Lehman Lesley Lambright  
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Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic The role of the unconscious motivation and early childhood experiences in determining behavior and thought   show
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Evolutionary The role of inherited tendencies that have proven adaptive in humans. Theory of natural selection   show
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Gestalt Objects and patterns as whole units   show
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show a deliberate manipulation of a variable to see if corresponding changes in behavior result, allowing the determination of cause and effect relationship  
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Introspection   show
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Structuralism   show
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Functionalism   show
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Three major parts of a neuron?   show
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