AP Psych Unit 1&2
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| Psychology | show 🗑
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| show | an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind, introduced by Titchener
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| show | the process of self-reflection on one's thoughts and feelings
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| Functionalism | show 🗑
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| show | Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic techniques that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts.
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| show | an organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.
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| show | the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes.
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| show | historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth.
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| show | the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today's science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture.
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| Natural selection | show 🗑
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| Biopsychosocial approach | show 🗑
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| Biological psychology (neuroscience) | show 🗑
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| Evolutionary psychology | show 🗑
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| Psychodynamic psychology | show 🗑
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| Behavioral psychology | show 🗑
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| show | the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
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| show | the study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking.
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| Basic research | show 🗑
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| Applied research | show 🗑
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| show | a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well-being.
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| show | a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders.
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| Psychiatry | show 🗑
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| show | the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. (also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon)
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| show | thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.
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| Theory | show 🗑
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| show | a testable prediction, often implied by a theory.
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| Operational definition | show 🗑
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| show | repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other participants and circumstances.
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| show | an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles.
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| Survey | show 🗑
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| show | all the cases in a group being studied, from which samples may be drawn.
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| Representative sample | show 🗑
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| show | a sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion.
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| show | the tendency of respondents to answer questions in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others. It can take the form of over-reporting good behavior or under-reporting bad behavior.
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| Naturalistic observation | show 🗑
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| show | a phenomenon in which participants alter their behavior as a result of being part of an experiment or study.
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| Correlation | show 🗑
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| show | a statistical index of the relationship between two things (from -1 to +1).
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| Scatterplot | show 🗑
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| show | the perception of a relationship where none exists.
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| show | a research method in which a researcher manipulates one or more factors (independent variables) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process (the dependent variable).
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| Experimental group | show 🗑
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| show | in an experiment, the group that is not exposed to the treatment; contrasts with the experimental group and serves as a comparison for evaluating the effect of the treatment.
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| Random assignment | show 🗑
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| Independent variable | show 🗑
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| show | the outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable.
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| Confounding (extraneous) variables | show 🗑
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| show | in an experiment when participants do not know if they are in the experimental or control group; so they do not know what variation of the independent variable they are receiving (the treatment or not).
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| Double-blind procedure | show 🗑
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| Placebo | show 🗑
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| Placebo effect | show 🗑
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| show | a non experimental research technique in which preexisting groups are compared on some dependent variable, it is a type of study that can act as a genuine experiment.
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| show | a group of procedures that summarize or describe a set of data. These procedures include the measures of central tendency and measures of variability.
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| Measure of central tendency | show 🗑
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| Mean | show 🗑
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| Median | show 🗑
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| show | the most frequently occurring score(s) in a distribution.
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| show | refers to how spread apart the scores of the distribution are or how much the scores vary from each other. There are four major measures of variability, including the range, interquartile range, variance, and standard deviation.
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| show | represents the difference between the highest and lowest score in a distribution.
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| Standard Deviation | show 🗑
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| show | indicates by how many standard deviations a score is above or below the mean.
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| Normal distribution | show 🗑
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| Skewed distributions | show 🗑
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| show | techniques that allow researchers to make generalizations (or to infer) about the populations from which the samples were drawn.
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| show | a statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance.
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| show | a statement that is the opposite of the original hypothesis. Research must be compared to the null hypothesis (the opposite scenario) to see if any variance is in fact due to the independent variable.
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| Type I error | show 🗑
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| show | precise technical term used in statistics to describe particular flaws in a testing process, where one fails to reject a false null hypothesis.
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| Informed consent | show 🗑
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| Confidentiality | show 🗑
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| show | the postexperimental explanation of a study, including its purpose and any deceptions, to its participants.
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