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PSY301 Test One Test

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Skinner
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Binet and Simon
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tabula rasa
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reductionism
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clone
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Cognitive Research Perspectives
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Mysticism
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Regularity
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Logic
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polygenic
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Fechner
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Wertheimer
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Biological Research Perspectives
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Physioloigcal Research
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Hypothesis
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William James
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heritablity
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Dizygotic twins
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genotype
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Psychometrics Research
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people can make honest mistakes in interpreting data, treats psychology as a natural sciences
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certain principles shape the way you see the world, ex. drive to be perfect creates anxiety and determination
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Developed first IQ test to place kids in grades after France ruled that every kid had to go to school
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DNA content of a cell
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logical explanation constructed from a theory
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nervous system, hormones (neuroscience)
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understand the parts to understand the whole
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individuals possessing the same genotypes
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influenced by multiple genes
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consistency across time and place
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Gestalt school, big picture, look at it as one piece and break it down
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accurately conveying the message received may be difficult; the message itself may be wrong; often time will rely on authority (religious leaders, palm readers); Ex. Shroom story!
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twins derived from the simultaneous fertilization of two eggs, fraternal twins, different genotypes
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increases as genetic diversity increases, decreases as environmental diversity increases,the extent to which genetic individual differences contribute to individual differences in observed behavior
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brain and chemicals determine the way people are
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“Elements of Psychophysics”, developed methods and procedures on how to run sensory experiments, threshold effect (ability to determine when a stimulus has changed)
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neobehaviorism, devices that automated experiments, ex. Machine that makes a mark every time rat presses lever instead of having to sit there watching it
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The notion that humans are born without specific knowledge or ideas
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psychological testing (surveys, questionnaires)
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not necessarily superior to direct observation; ex. in syllogistic reasoning, if the basis of the logic is wrong, the assumption is wrong
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individual consistency in behavior
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tried to over turn behaviorism with purposive behavior, ex. Why does mouse go through the puzzle? To get food!
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knowledge via sensory experience/observation, makes experimentation a reasonable thing to do
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whole is greater than the sum of its parts
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behaviorism, objective behavior, don’t make up pretty explanations, doesn’t mention the “mind” because that is too whishy washy
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with persistent effort, eventually everything about the universe can be known
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world and universe is organized in a way that is understandable
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First psychology lab, study of consciousness, wanted to make periodic table of mind, immediate vs mediate experience (see a rose-> red= immediate, rose=mediate)
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sensation, perception, learning, memory
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all things explainable by physical terms

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