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30 Cards in this Set
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early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind
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Structuralism
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a school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function-how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish
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Functionalism
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view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes most research psychologists today agree that it should be an objective science
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behavioralism
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physical reactions or behaviors
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humanistic
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who is different from the sum of the parts
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Gestalt
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Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts *Unconscious motivation*
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Psychoanalysis
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mind of the humans *child of humanism when they couldn't just look at physical behavior anymore
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Cognitive Psychology
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focused on a single person, retrospective, non-quantitative
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case study
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(field study) watching what happens in a realistic setting
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Naturalistic Observation
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conduction surveys for research
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Survey Method
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can't infer causation
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Correlation Method
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can infer causation
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experimental method
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(cause) experiemental controls
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Independent variable
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(effect) effected by independent
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Dependent variable
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(experimental) receives some of the Independent variable
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Treatment Group
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receives none of the independent variable
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Control Group
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believe they are getting independent variable
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placebo group
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sometimes any treatment will result in improved performance because subjects know they are getting special treatment
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Hawthorne Effect
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Only believing they are getting special treatment will result in improved performance
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Placebo Effect
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(Rosenthal Effect)Expectations of researcher will effect the outcome of a study
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Experimenter Bias
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must be informed of any aspect that might change their mind to participate
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Informed consent
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entitled to know what went on
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debriefing
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information from participants must be kept confidential-can't release the age or race
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confidentiality
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withdrawal from experiemnt is possible at any time without prejudice-must get credit
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withdrawal privileges
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researcher must protect participants from physical harm and mental distress-must alleviate if it does happen
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subject protection
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must not be force to participate
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voluntary participation
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thought intelligence was developmental
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Binet
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mental ages divided by chronological age then multiply by 100 for the IQ
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Two Factor Model by Spearman
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number, word fluency, verbal meaning, memory, reasoning, spatial relations, perceptual speed
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thurstone's factors
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linguistic, logical/mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, naturalist
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gardner's multi-factor
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