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| Psychology | show 🗑
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| Critical Thinking | show 🗑
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| show | An earlier approach to psychology developed by Sigmund Freud, that emphasizes analysis and bringing unconscious processes, unresolved conflicts, and past experiences
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| Wilhelm Wundt | show 🗑
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| Edward Titchener | show 🗑
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| show | Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment. Considered to be the "father of American Psychology"
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| show | Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis.
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| Structuralism | show 🗑
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| show | Study of the way the mind functions to enable humans and other animals to adapt to their environment
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| Psychodynamic Perspective | show 🗑
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| show | A modern approach to psychology that emphasizes objective, observable, environmental influences on overt behavior.
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| Humanistic Perspective | show 🗑
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| show | A modern approach to psychology that focuses on the mental processes used in thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
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| show | A modern approach to psychology that focuses on genetics and biological processes.
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| Evolutionary Perspective | show 🗑
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| show | A modern approach to psychology that emphasizes social interactions and the cultural determinants of behavior and mental processes.
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| B.F. Skinner | show 🗑
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| John Watson | show 🗑
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| show | The humanistic term for the inborn drive to develop all ones talents and capabilities
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| Free will | show 🗑
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| Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow | show 🗑
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| Positive Psychology | show 🗑
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| show | AN approach to cognitive development studies that aims to explain how information is encoded into memory
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| Mary Calkins | show 🗑
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| Francis Cesil Sumner | show 🗑
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| show | First Person of color to be elected as the president of APA
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| show | An integrative, unifying theme of modern psychology that sees biological, psychological, and social processes as interrelated and interacting influences.
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| show | Behavior and mental processes of nonhuman animals; evolution and cross species comparisons
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| show | Applies principles of psychology to the legal system
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| Basic Research | show 🗑
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| show | A type of research primarily conducted to solve practical, real world problems; generally conducted outside the laboratory.
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| Scientific Method | show 🗑
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| show | A tentative and testable explanation, or educated guess, about the relationship between two or more variables; a testable prediction or question.
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| show | A precise description of how the variables in a study will be observed, manipulated, and measured
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| Statistical significance | show 🗑
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| Step 1 of the scientific method | show 🗑
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| show | Testable Hypothesis - Develop a testable hypothesis based on the question of interest
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| show | Research design - Choose the best of the three research methods to test your hypothesis
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| show | Data collection and analysis - Collect data from the experiment and determine if it is statistically significant
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| show | Publication - Write study results, and have them peer reviewed and then published
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| show | A statistical technique for combining and analyzing data from many studies in order to determine overall trends.
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| show | A well-substantiated explanation for a phenomenon or a group of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed by previous research.
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| Nature - Nurture controversy | show 🗑
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| show | A type of research that systematically observes and records behavior and mental processes without manipulating variables
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| show | A descriptive research technique that observes and records behavior and mental processes in a natural, real-world setting.
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| Survey/Interview | show 🗑
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| show | A descriptive research technique involving an in-depth study of a single research participant or a small group of individuals.
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| show | A descriptive research technique that studies existing data to find answers to research questions.
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| show | Minimizes artificiality, makes data collection easier, allows description of behavior and mental processes as they occur
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| show | Little to no control over variables, potential biases, cannot identify cause and effect
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| Correlational method advantages | show 🗑
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| show | Little to no control over variables, can't identify cause and effect, possible illusory correlation or third variable problem, and potential biases
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| show | Allows researchers to have precise control over variables and provides explanation of the causes of behavior and mental processes
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| show | Ethical concerns, practical limitations, artificiality of lab conditions
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| show | watching subjects in a controlled environment
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| Correlational research | show 🗑
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| Correlational coefficient | show 🗑
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| show | A type of research that involves the manipulation and control of variables to determine its casual effect on the dependent variable
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| Independent variable | show 🗑
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| show | The variable that is observed and measured for change; that factor that is affected by the independent variable.
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| show | The group that is manipulated in an experiment; participants who are exposed to the independent variable.
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| Control group | show 🗑
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| Sample bias | show 🗑
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| Random assignment | show 🗑
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| show | A variable not being studied associated with both the dependent and independent variable
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| show | A bias that occurs when a researcher influences research results in the expected direction.
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| Ethnocentrism | show 🗑
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| Participant bias | show 🗑
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| Single-blind study | show 🗑
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| show | An experimental technique in which both the researcher and the participants are unaware of who is in the experimental or control groups.
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| Placebo | show 🗑
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| show | Subjects are given information about the experiment before it takes place
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| APA reg Voluntary participation | show 🗑
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| show | Most of the time deception is restricted, however when it is necessary, there is a mandatory debriefing where the subjects are told everything that happened during the experiment
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| show | Any of the subjects personal information will not be publicized or given out
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| Correlation isn't causation | show 🗑
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