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PY400: Perspectives, Research, Experiments, etc.

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show A school of study that focuses on how we learn observable responses. Learning through reward and punishment/operative conditioning. Two different sides: Is it due to genetics or environmental factors?  
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show A school of study that focuses on how healthy people strive to reach their full potential, reaffirming other people. Maslow and Rogers  
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show Psychoanalysis. A school of study that focuses on how helping behavior springs from unconscious drives and inner conflicts. Freud.  
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Cognitive Perspective   show
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show A school of study that focuses on physical structures and substances that affect behavior, like endorphins  
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show A school of study that focuses on how thinking or behavioral changes depend on context. Factors: culture, social norms, background, environment  
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Positive Psychology   show
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Evolutionary Perspective   show
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Scientific Method   show
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Observation   show
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Confirmation Bias   show
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Critical Thinking   show
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Participant Bias   show
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Naturalistic Observation   show
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Case Study   show
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show Looking for a relationship between two factors. REMEMBER: Correlation is not causation, it simply shows the relationship. Positive: both variables increase or decrease together Negative: One variable increases, other decreases  
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show Similar to a case study. Observe an individual/group for a long period of time.  
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show Questioning a random sample of people for information about their attitudes and behaviors. You must use a large number of people, don't write misleading questions, beware of social desirability. All can affect your outcome negatively.  
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show Very common, compare people of different ages at one time.  
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Scientific Experiment   show
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Double-blind study   show
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Blind study   show
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show A testable predication about the outcome of your research.  
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Operational Definition   show
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show The variable that the researcher will actively manipulate and, if the hypothesis is correct, that will cause a change in the independent variable.  
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show The variable that should show the effect of the independent variable.  
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show The participants in an experiment who are exposed to the independent variable.  
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show The participants in an experiment who are not exposed to the independent variable.  
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show A procedure for creating groups that allows the researcher to control for individual differences among research participants.  
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Confounding Variable   show
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show To repeat the essence of a research study to see whether the results can be reliably reproduced  
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Ethics of Human Research   show
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Reasons for Researching with Animals   show
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