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Psychology |
scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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APA |
The American Psychology Association |
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APS |
The Association of Psychological Science-100 different societies, organizations, and agencies that are considered to have some affiliation with the fields of psychology. |
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basic research |
Gathering knowledge just for the sake of knowledge |
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applied research |
Gathering knowledge in order to apply it to real world applications. it focuses on behavior and outcomes |
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hindsight bias |
the feeling of "I knew it all along" |
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psychology is a science because...? |
it is based on meticulous and methodical observation,as well as data analysis. |
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Goals of psychology? |
To describe, explain, predict, and control |
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Plato (427-347 BCE) |
-He believed that truth exist in the soul before birth. Humans are born with some degree of innate knowledge. -contributed to the nature in human capacity for cognition. |
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Aristotle (384-322 BCE) |
Challenged his mentors (plato) teachings. He believed that we know reality through our perceptions and we learn through our sensory experiences (empiricism). He paved the way for scientists to study the world through observation. He is saying that experiences (nurture) plays an important role in how we acquire knowledge, this contradicts Platos belief of inborn, which is nature |
