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Ch 1 Psychology Test

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Critical Thinking
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Double-Blind Study
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Naturalistic Observation
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Psychiatric Social Worker
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Dependent Variable
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Independent Variable
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Cognitive Perspective
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Operational Definition
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Experimenter Effect
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Psychiatrist
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Sociocultural Perspective
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Evolutionary Perspective
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Biopsychological Perspective
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Psychology
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Gestalt Psychology
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Behaviorism
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Experiment
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Experimental Group
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Single-Blind Study
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Functionalism
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Modern perspective that focuses on memory, intelligence, perception, problem-solving, and learning.
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Early perspective in psychology focusing on perception and sensation, particularly the perception of patterns and whole figures.
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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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A social worker with some training in therapy methods who focuses on environmental conditions that can have an impact on mental disorders, such as poverty, overcrowding, stress, and drug abuse.
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The science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only.
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Making reasoned judgments about claims.
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Study in which the researcher observes people or animals in their normal environment.
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Subjects in an experiment that are subjected to the independent variable.
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Perspective that focuses on the biological bases of universal mental characteristics that all humans share.
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Perspective that focuses on the relationship between social behavior and culture.
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Tendency of the experimenter's expectations for a study to unintentionally influence the results of the study.
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Variable in an experiment that is manipulated by the experimenter.
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Variable in an experiment that represents the measurable response or behavior of the subjects in the experiment.
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A deliberated manipulation of a variable to see if corresponding changes in behavior result, allowing the determination of cause and effect relationships.
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Definition of a variable of interest that allows it to be directly measure.
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Perspective that attributes human and animal behavior to biological events occurring in the body, such as genetic influences, hormones, and the activity of the nervous system.
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Early perspective in psychology associated with William James, in which the focus of study is how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play.
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Study in which neither the experimenter nor the subjects knows if the subjects are in the experimental or control groups.
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Study in which the subjects do not know if they are in the experimental or the control group.
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A medical doctor who has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders.
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The phenomenon in which the expectations of the participants in a study can influence their behavior.
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Study conducted by asking a series of questions to a group of people.
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Perspective that emphasizes human potential and the idea that people have the freedom to choose their own destiny.
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The theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud.
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Tendency of observers to see what they expect to see.
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Tendency of people or animals to behave differently from normal when they know they are being observed.
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Subjects in an experiment that are not subjected to the independent variable and who may receive a a placebo treatment.
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Study of one individual in great detail. Modern perspective that focuses on memory, intelligence, perception, problem-solving, and learning.
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System of gathering data so that bias and error in measurement are reduced.
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A measure of the relationship between two variables.

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