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AP Psychology Chp. 1
Quiz 1
Word | Definition |
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William James | Harvard University Philosopher and psychologist, publishes The Principle of Psychology, describing psychology as "the science of mental life" |
Sigmund Freud | Publishes The Interpretation of dreams, his major work on psychoanalysis. |
Abraham Maslow | A twentieth century psychologist who has written extensively on the necessary spiritual development of humans |
Ivan Pavlov | begins publishing studies of conditioning in animals. |
B.F. Skinner | publishes The behavior of Organism, which describes operant conditioning of animals. |
John B. Watson | Outlines the principle of behaviorism in a "Psychological Review" article, "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It." |
Willhelm Wundt | Establishes at the University of Leipzig Germany, the first psychological laboratory. |
Jean Piaget | Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children |
Behaviorism | The view of psychology (1)should be an objective science that (2)studies behavior without reference to mental processes |
Structuralism | An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the element structure of the human mind. |
Functionalism | A school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavior processes function, how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish. |
Humanistic Psychology | Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized method to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth. |
Replication | Repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participant in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other circumstances |
Correlation | A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other. |
Scatterplot | A graphed cluster of dots, each of which represent the values of two variables. |
Random Assignment | Assigning participant to experimental and control conditions by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different group. |
Placebo Effect | Experiment result caused by expectations alone; any effect on behavior cause by the administration of an inert substance or condition, which is assumed to be an active ageng |
Operational Definition | A statement of the procedures use to define research variables. |
Independent Variable | The experiment factor that is manipulated |
Dependent Variable | The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulation of the independent variable |