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Chapter 1 Study Guide

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What fields influenced Psychology?   show
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show INTROSPECTION: the process of examining and measuring one's own thoughts and mental activities.STRUCTURALISM: The 1st school of thought analyzing basic elements or structures of conscious mental experiences FUNCTIONALISM: humans & animals adapting envirmt  
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show orderly systematic identify a problem, design a study to investigate the problem, collect and analyze data, draw conclusions and communicate their findings.  
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Define Behavior   show
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show How humans and animals use mental processes in adapting to their enviorment  
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show A testable prediction about the condition under which a particular behavior or mental process may occur  
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Define Theory   show
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show PRO'S: Source of info. for rare or unusual conditions or events. Can provide basis for hypotheses to be tested later (rare disorders) CON'S: Not generalized. Doesn't establish cause of behavior, misinterpretation by researcher  
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show PRO'S: Highly accurate info. Can track changes in attitude and behavior over time. CON'S: Can be COSTLY and time consuming. Responses may be INACCURATE  
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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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show PRO's: Enables cause and effect relationships CON's: In some cases experiment is unethical or impossible (labortory experiment: setting may inhibit natural behavior of participant)  
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Pyschology   show
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show The phenomenon in which the expectations of the participants in a study can influence their behavior  
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show The theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud (the role of the unconscious motivation and early childhood experiences in determining behavior and thought  
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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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Identify Correlations- Method use to establish the degree of relationship   show
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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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Behavorial Emphasizes the key role od the enviorment as a determinant of behavior   show
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show Robins, Gosling & Craik  
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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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show Charles Darwin  
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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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show INTROSPECTION: the process of examining and measuring one's own thoughts and mental activities.  
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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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