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16 Cards in this Set
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Research Reliability |
Data are consistent & Dependable |
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Psychoanalytic Perspective |
Tries to explain the unconscious processes behind behavior patterns |
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Sublimation |
Socially acceptable displacement |
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External locus of control |
More dependent on others and more depression |
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Control group |
Group exposed to something neutral or nothing different in research |
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Reaction formation |
making unacceptable impulses look like their opposites |
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Dependent variable |
What is measured in an experiment |
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Correlation |
Does NOT imply causation (cause and effect) |
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Internal locus of control |
Better health and higher grades in school |
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Experimental group |
Group exposed to the independent variable in research |
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Projection |
Attributing our own unacceptable impulses to others |
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Self-serving bias |
We see ourselves as consistently above average; "I'm special" |
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Independent variable |
What is manipulated in an experiment |
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Phenomenological perspective |
Subjective experience determines our behavior |
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Learned helplessness |
Haven't learned how to control a stressful situation, so don't try |
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Trait personality theory |
describes and classifies behavior patterns; doesn't try to explain |
