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Psychology is the mix of what two foundations?

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Biology and Philosophy

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Who is the creator of the idea of natural selections, which is a principle in psychology, as well as biology?

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Charles Darwin

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In its early years, psychology focused on the study of _______; from the 1920s into the 1960s, American psychologists emphasized the study of ________.

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Mental processes; observable behavior

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The neuroscience perspective in psychology would be most likely to emphasize that behavior is influenced by:

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brain chemistry

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Which perspective is most directly relevant to an understanding of the nature-nurture issue?

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Behavior Genetics

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Identical twins are more similar in intelligence than fraternal twins. This fact would be of most direct relevance to the ________ perspective.

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Behavior Genetics

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Which perspective suggest that the facial expressions we use to express anger and fear are inherited?

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Evolutionary

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Mrs. Thompson believes that her son has learned to play the piano because she consistently rewards his efforts to learn with praise and affections. Her belief best illustrates a ________ perspective.

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Behavioral

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The psychodynamic perspective is distinctive because it emphasizes that behavior is influenced by:

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Unconscious desires and unresolved conflicts

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Dr. Santaniello conducts basic research on how a child's thinking changes as they get older. It is most likely that Dr. Santaniello is a _________ psychologist.

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developmental

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The various theoretical perspectives employed by psychologists:

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often compliment one another

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The specialist most likely to have a medical degree is a:

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psychiatrist

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Molly wonders whether personality differences between her African-American and white friends results from biological or cultural differences. In this instance, Molly is primarily concerned with the issue of:

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Nature vs. Nurture

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Innate ability is to learned skills as _______is to _______.

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nature; nurture

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What is the correct order for the active method of learning?

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Preview, read, think critically, and review

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What was the definition of psychology before the 1920s?

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scientific study of mental life

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Breathing is to remembering as ________ is to ________.

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behavior; mental processes

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The first psychological laboratory was established in _______ by ________.

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Germany, Wilhelm Wundt

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The cognitive perspective in psychology emphasizes how:

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people encode, process, store, and retrieve information

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Which of the following disciplines had the greatest influence on the way Wundt, Pavlov, Freud, and Piaget approached the study of psychology?

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Biology

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What variable is being manipulated in an experiment?

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independent

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What variable is being measured in an experiment?

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dependent

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What ensures that everyone has an equal chance to participate in an experiment?

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random sampling

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What is the purpose of an experiment?

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proves causation (cause & effect)

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What gives details about all variables and groups of an experiment?

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operational definition

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What is used to reduce the effects of extraneous factors in both research conditions?

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random assignment

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What was the importance of the operational definition from the pace of living experiment?

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must define the variables

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What conditions receives the independent variable?

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experimental

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What is used to reduce researcher bias in an experiment?

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double-blind study

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What condition does not receive the independent variable , and what does it get instead?

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control group, placebo

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What is the purpose of the control condition?

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to compare the two groups

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What is the purpose of descriptive research? What are ways it is performed?

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to observe and describe: case study, survey, naturalistic observation

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What are three measures of central tendency?

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mean, median, mode

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What measure of central tendency is easiest to skew?

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mean

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What are two measures of variation?

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range, standard deviation

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Who said," what good fortune for those in power that people do not think"?

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Adolf Hitler

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What are the seven current perspectives of psychology?

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evolutionary, social cultural, cognitive, psychodynamic, neuroscience, humanistic, behavioral

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Which perspective focuses on how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences?

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biological

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Which perspective focuses on how we learn observable responses?

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behavioral

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Which perspective focuses on how behavior and thinking vary across situations?

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social cultural

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Which perspective focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information?

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cognitive

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Which perspective focuses on how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts?

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psychodynamic

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Which perspective is concerned with how much our genes and our environment influences our individual differences?

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biological

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What are the three big issues today for psychologists?

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nature vs nurture, irrational vs rational, stability vs change

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What Greek philosophers believed in innate ideas?

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Socrates, Plato

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What Greek philosopher believed in learned ideas?

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Aristotle

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What 17th century European philosopher believed in innate ideas?

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Descartes

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What 17th century European philosopher believed in learned ideas?

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Locke

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Modern day psychology is a mixture of what two fields?

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biology and philosophy

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Who was the father of functionalism, focusing on how organisms adapt to their environment?

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William James

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Who was the father of psychology, starting the first psychological laboratory in Germany in 1879?

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Wilhelm Wundt

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What school of psychology was started by Wundt, focusing on the subjective and objective experience?

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structuralism

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What student of Wundt's brought his ideas to Cornell University, teaching introspection as a way to teach self-reflection?

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Edward B. Titchner

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What ancient Greek physician believed an imbalance in bodily fluids, humors, caused psychological symptoms?

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Hippocrates

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During what time period did people believe psychological symptoms were caused by demon possession?

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medieval

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Who created the school of psychoanalysis, focusing on the unconscious drives? What current day perspective did it involve into?

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Sigmund Freud, Psychodynamic

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Who wrote the first psychology textbook in the 1890s?

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William James

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Who wrote the "Origin of Species" in 1859, which would have an influence on the evolutionary perspective of psychology?

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Charles Darwin

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Which area of psychology might be best suited to investigate the following research question: what happens in our brain when we forget details about stressful life events, and how does this process affect behavior?

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cognitive neuroscience

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Which philosopher would have been most enthusiastic about modern empiricism?

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Aristotle

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Who was the American philosopher who authored a textbook in 1890 for the emerging discipline of psychology?

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William James

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Which approach is most directly concerned with assessing the relative impact of both nature and nurture on our psychological traits?

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biopsychosocial

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The unreliability of introspection contributed to the waning popularity of

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structuralism

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Functionalism was a school of psychology that focused attention on the

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adaptive value of conscious thoughts and emotions

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Who would have been most likely to ignore mental processes and to define psychology as " the scientific study of observable behavior"?

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John B. Watson

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In explaining human behavior, psychoanalysts are likely to focus on ______, whereas humanistic psychologists concentrate on______.

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childhood experiences and unconscious thought processes; current environmental influences on potential

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In the early 1960s, the cognitive revolution in psychology involved a renewal of interest in the scientific study of

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mental processes

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Mrs. Alfieri believes that her husband's angry outbursts against her result from his unconscious hatred of his own mother. Mrs. Alfieri is looking at her husband's behavior from a _______ perspective.

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psychodynamic

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Which of the following psychologists most clearly rejected the value of introspection?

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John B. Watson

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Which philosopher is most well known for theorizing that the mind at birth is tabula rasa or a "blank slate"?

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John Locke

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Arguments as to whether psychological differences between men and women result from biological or social influences most clearly involve a debate over the issue of

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nature vs nurture

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Introspection was the basic research tool used by ______ in order to study people's inner sensations and mental images.

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Edward Titchner

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Contemporary psychology is best defined as the scientific study of

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behavior and mental processes

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The first psychological laboratory was established by

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Wilhelm Wundt

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The cognitive perspective in psychology focuses on how

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people encode, process, store and retrieve information

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The early school of psychology known as functionalism was developed by

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William James

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Who was a student of William James and the first female president of the American Psychological Association?

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Mary Calkins

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Who would be most likely to emphasize the role of the unconscious in affecting behavior?

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Sigmund Freud

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Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory work involved experimental studies of

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reactions to sensory stimulation

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In the context of debates regarding the origins of knowledge, Aristotle is to ______ as Plato is to _____

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nurture, nature

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The ideas that most directly helped form modern empiricism were proposed by

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John Locke and Francis Bacon

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In its early years, psychology focused on the study of ______, but from the 1920s into the 1960s, American psychologists emphasized the study of ______

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mental life, observable behavior

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The inheritance of behavior characteristics was emphasized by

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John Watson

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What is the correct order of the Greek philosophers?

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Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

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The ideas that most directly helped form modern empiricism were proposed by

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John Locke and Francis Bacon

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Descartes theory of how our brain controlled our reflexes involved which of the following?

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brain fluid and animal spirits

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Which philosopher would have been most enthusiastic about modern empiricism?

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Rene Descartes

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Basic Purpose of Descriptive

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to observe and record behavior

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How is Descriptive method conducted?

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case studies, surveys, or naturalistic behavior

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Descriptive Method Strengths

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case studies require only one participant; surveys may be done fairly quickly and inexpensively. Naturalistic observation may be done when it's not ethical to manipulate variables

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Basic Purpose of Correlational

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to detect naturally occurring relationships; to assess how well one variable predicts another

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Hos is correlational method conducted?

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compute statistical association, sometime among survey responses

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Correlational Method Strengths

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works with large groups of data, and may be used in situations where an experiment wouldn't be ethical or possible

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Correlational Method Weaknesses

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Does not specify cause and effect

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Descriptive Method Weaknesses

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No control of variables; single cases may be misleading

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Basic Purpose of Experimental

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to explore cause and effect

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How is experimental method conducted?

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manipulate one or more factors; use random assignments

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What is manipulated in experimental method?

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the independent variables

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Experimental Method Strengths

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specifies cause and effect, and variables are controlled

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Experimental Method Weaknesses

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sometimes not feasible; results may not generalize to other contexts; not ethical to manipulate certain variables

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Cognitive neuroscience

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the study of brain activity linked with mental activity

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experimental psychologist

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who explore behavior and thinking with experiments

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behaviorism

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the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.

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humanistic psychology

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the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)

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nature-nurture issue

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the lonstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behavior

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natural selection

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the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on succeeding generations

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structuralism

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an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind

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functionalism

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a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish

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levels of analysis

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the differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon

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Biopsychosocial approach

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an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social cultural levels of analysis

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psychometrics

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the scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits

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basic research

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pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base

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developmental psychology

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the scientific study of physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

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educational psychology

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the study of how psychological processes affect and relate to one another

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personality psychology

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the study of an individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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social psychology

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the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another

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applied research

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scientific study that aims to solve practical problems

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industrial organization psychology

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the application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces

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human factors psychology

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the study of how people and machines interact and the design of safe and easily used machines and environments

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counseling psychology

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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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clinical psychology

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a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders

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psychiatry

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a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who often provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy

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hindsight bias

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the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it

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critical thinking

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thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions; it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusion

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theory

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an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events

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hypothesis

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a testable prediction, often implied by a theory

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population

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all the cases in a group being studied, from which samples may be drawn

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random sample

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a sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion

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naturalistic observation

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observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation

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correlation

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a measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of well either factor predicts the other

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correlational coefficient

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a statistical index of the relationship between two things (-1 to +1)

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scatterplot

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a graphed cluster of dots, each of which represents the values of two variables

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illusory correlational

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the perception of a relationship where none exists

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experiment

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a research method in which an environment an investigator manipulates one or more factors (independent variables) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process ( the dependent variable)

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random assignment

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assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups

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double blind procedure

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an experimental procedure n which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo

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placebo effect

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experimental results caused by expectations alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an inert substance or condition, which the recipient assumes is an active agent

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experimental group

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in an experiment, the group that is exposed to the treatment, that is, to one version of the independent variable

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control group

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in an experiment, the group that is not exposed to the treatment

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confounding variable

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a factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect in an experiment

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normal curve

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a symmetrical, bell shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data

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statistical significance

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a statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance

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culture

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the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next

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informed consent

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an ethical principle that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate

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debriefing

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the postexperimental explanation of a study, including its purpose and any deceptions, to its participants

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