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26 Cards in this Set
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Wundt
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Established 1st Psychology Lab
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James
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Wrote the 1st Psychology book: "Principles of Psychology"
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Watson
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Fear/ Love/ Hate can be learned
Conditioning: Manipulating behavior |
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Skinner
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Change behavior via reinforcement
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Psychology
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the study of behavior and mental processes (dreams, goals, etc)
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Biopsychological Approach
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considers the influence of biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors
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Hindsight Bias
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the tendency to believe after learning an outcome, that we would have foreseen it (I-knew-it-all-along)
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Biological Psychology
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genetic; natural selection
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Social Psychology
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environment; expectations from those around you
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Developmental Psychology
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emotion; stress
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Overconfidence
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being more confident than correct, overestimating our ability to predict the future
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Scientific Theory
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an explanation integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
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Correlation
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the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other
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Illusionary Correlation
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the perception of a relationship where non exsist
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Hypothesis
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a testable prediction
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Independent Variable
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the manipulated variable
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Dependent Variable
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the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable
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Placebo
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"fake pill"
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Case Study
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examines one individual in depth in the hope of revealing tings true of us all
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Survey
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a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group
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Naturalistic Observation
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observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation
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Mean
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arithmetic average; the total sum of all the scores divided by the number of scores
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Median
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the middle score in a distribution
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Mode
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the most frequently occurring score(s) in a distribution
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Standard Curve
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a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data
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Standard Deviation
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a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score
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