Unit 0 Psych Vocab
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| Applied Research | show 🗑
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| show | view that psychology (1) should be an objective science and that (2) it studies the behavior without reference to mental processes. Most researchers agree with one and not two.
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| Bimodal Distribution | show 🗑
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| Biopsychosocial Approach | show 🗑
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| show | an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles.
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| Central Tendency | show 🗑
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| show | branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders.
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| show | theoretical framework where humans learn from thinking and processes of the mind.
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| Confidentiality | show 🗑
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| Confirmation Bias | show 🗑
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| Confounding Variable | show 🗑
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| show | in an experiment, the group not exposed to the treatment and serves as a baseline
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| show | non-probability sampling where subjects are chosen due to ease of access.
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| show | statistical index of the relationship between two things (-1 to +1)
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| show | type of research design that looks at relationships between two or more variables
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| Counseling Psychology | show 🗑
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| Critical Thinking | show 🗑
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| show | the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted through generations.
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| Debriefing | show 🗑
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| show | when researchers lie or intentionally mislead subjects about a key aspect of research.
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| Dependent Variable | show 🗑
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| show | organize/summarize a dataset; mean, median, mode, variance, etc.
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| Determinism | show 🗑
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| Developmental Psychology | show 🗑
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| show | neither the researchers nor the subjects know whether a participant is getting the treatment or a placebo.
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| Eclectic | show 🗑
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| Educational Psychology | show 🗑
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| Effect Size | show 🗑
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| Empiricism | show 🗑
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| Ethics | show 🗑
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| show | study of roots of behavior and mental processes using principles of natural selection.
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| show | group exposed to the treatment, to one version of the independent variable.
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| show | study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method
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| Experimentation | show 🗑
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| show | unintentional influence of researcher's expectations, beliefs, or ideas on the outcome of a study or research experiment.
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| show | logical possibility that an assertion, hypothesis, or theory can be shown to be false by an observation or experiment.
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| Functionalism | show 🗑
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| Hindsight Bias | show 🗑
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| show | graph of continuous data using bars of different heights.
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| Human Factors | show 🗑
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| Humanistic | show 🗑
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| Hypothesis | show 🗑
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| show | perception of a relationship where none exists.
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| Independent Variable | show 🗑
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| show | the application of psychological concepts and methods to optimize human behavior in workplaces.
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| show | ways of analyzing data that allow the researcher to make conclusions about whether a hypothesis was supported by the result.
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| Informed Consent | show 🗑
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| show | federally-mandated, locally administered groups that evaluate risks and benefits of human participant research.
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| Introspection | show 🗑
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| show | rating scale that quantitatively assesses opinions, attitudes, or behaviors (questionnaire).
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| Mean | show 🗑
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| show | meddle score of a distribution
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| Meta Analysis | show 🗑
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| show | Most frequently occurring score in a distribution
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| show | observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate/control the situation
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| Negative Skewed Distribution | show 🗑
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| Neuroscientific (Biological) | show 🗑
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| show | other things that are not outside factors affect human behavior; free will exists.
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| show | Normal distribution with symmetry at the measure of center
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| Null Hypothesis | show 🗑
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| show | specifies concrete, replicable procedures designed to represent a construct.
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| Overconfidence | show 🗑
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| show | percent of scores that are less than or equal to a specific score.
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| Peer Review | show 🗑
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| Personality Psychology | show 🗑
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| show | substance/treatment with no effect to test efficacy of a treatment
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| Population | show 🗑
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| show | a data with a long right tail
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| Psychiatry | show 🗑
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| Psychoanalytic | show 🗑
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| Psychology | show 🗑
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| show | study within psychology; theory and techniques of measurement for mental capacities and processes.
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| show | gather non-numerical data (attitudes/beliefs/motivations)
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| Quantitative Research | show 🗑
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| show | every participant has an equal chance of being experimental or control group
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| show | Every subject of a population has an equal chance of being selected (helps ensure data is representative of the population)
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| Range | show 🗑
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| Regression Towards the Mean | show 🗑
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| show | repetition of an experiment or trial for better results
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| Research Confederates | show 🗑
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| Sampling Bias | show 🗑
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| show | when subjects lie on a questionnaire (to make good impression or because they are unsure)
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| show | graph that plots data as points on x and y axis
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| show | Test/experiment where info that might lead to bias/treatment is concealed from either the researcher or the subject
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| Social-Cultural Psychology | show 🗑
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| show | Form of response bias where respondents answer in a way that will make them look better to others
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| Social Psychology | show 🗑
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| show | measure of amount of deviation from the mean
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| Statistical Significance | show 🗑
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| show | first school of psychology; focused on breaking down the structure of the brain/breaking down processes into simple components
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| show | quantitative research method where interviewer has a set of predetermined close-ended questions
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| Survey | show 🗑
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| Theory | show 🗑
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| Validity | show 🗑
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| Variation | show 🗑
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