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PSY301 Test One Test

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Biological Research Perspectives
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Gene
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Common Sense
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Fechner
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Phenotype
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Psychoanalytic Research Perspectives
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Causality
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Humanistic Research Perspectives
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Cognitive Research
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Social Research
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Watson
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Experimental Research
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Cognitive Research Perspectives
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Developmental Research
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Science
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heritablity
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reductionism
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Materialism
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Positivism
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Psychometrics Research
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“Elements of Psychophysics”, developed methods and procedures on how to run sensory experiments, threshold effect (ability to determine when a stimulus has changed)
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interpersonal behavior
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comes from Freud’s studies of the unconscious mind, people are basically evil but have learned to be good in childhood
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Anybody can do it by “following the recipe”; needs objective and repeatable observation; not without assumptions
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understand the parts to understand the whole
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childhood and beyond
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Observable heritable trait, DNA sequence coding for a specific polypeptide
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people are basically good, people have a need for unconditional love and to be all that they can be, not having positive regards makes people bad during their childhood
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higher mental processes (reasoning, problem solving)
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sensation, perception, learning, memory
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brain and chemicals determine the way people are
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things do not occur w/o a cause
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behaviorism, objective behavior, don’t make up pretty explanations, doesn’t mention the “mind” because that is too whishy washy
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consider only objective facts, no subjectivity
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certain principles shape the way you see the world, ex. drive to be perfect creates anxiety and determination
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psychological testing (surveys, questionnaires)
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differs from place to place and time to time; only criterion for determining truth is whether or not it works, therefore cannot predict new knowledge
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the pattern of expression of the genotype
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all things explainable by physical terms
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increases as genetic diversity increases, decreases as environmental diversity increases,the extent to which genetic individual differences contribute to individual differences in observed behavior
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accurately conveying the message received may be difficult; the message itself may be wrong; often time will rely on authority (religious leaders, palm readers); Ex. Shroom story!
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not necessarily superior to direct observation; ex. in syllogistic reasoning, if the basis of the logic is wrong, the assumption is wrong
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influenced by multiple genes
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tried to over turn behaviorism with purposive behavior, ex. Why does mouse go through the puzzle? To get food!
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nerve conduction is not instantaneous, frog leg experiment
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body is hydraulic pump, mind & body are separate entities that interact thru pineal gland, innate ideas vs derived ideas
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Gestalt school, big picture, look at it as one piece and break it down
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knowledge via sensory experience/observation, makes experimentation a reasonable thing to do
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reality is an illusion; lots of empty space b/w atoms
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nervous system, hormones (neuroscience)

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