Psych 100 Exam I

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What is Psychology?

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Scientific study of human behaviors and processes

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Behavior?

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An action that can be observed and recorded

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Pre Scientific Psych

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Where Does knoledge come from? Mind Body Dualism

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Decarte

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Where does knoledge come from? Mind Body Dualism

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Socrates & Plato

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LOGIC - mind separate from body and continues on - knoleges is inate

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Aristotle

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Used science - principles from careful observation - soul not separate from body - knowledge is gained through experience

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John Locke

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Tabula Rasa (Blank Slate) Empiricism

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Wilhelm Wundt

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First experimental psychology Lab

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Structuralism

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Titchner - First INtrospection (looking inward) explore elemantel structure of the mind

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Empiricism

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knoledge gained through experiment and sences

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Functionalism

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focused on mental and behavioral processes that enable the organism to adapt survive and flurish

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William James

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Functionalist - first feminist -wrote first psych text book

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Humanism

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emphased groth potential of healthy people, used personalized methods to study personality

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Contemporary psych

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Nature VS Nurture - Natural Selection

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Psych 3 main levels of anaylsis

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bio influ, psych influ, Social Cultural influ (Biopsychosocial model of behavior analysis)

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Study Animals

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General Process model - species more alike than different

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need for psych

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limits of intuition and common sense - overconfidence

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hindsight bias

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"i knew it all along" in psych-prediction of future stonger than actually were When Correct

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Critical thinking

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emperical - doesn't blindly accept

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Scientific Method

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Theory - Hypothesis - Replication - Operational Deffintion

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theory

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logical self consistent model of frame work

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hypothesis

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testable statement - supported or refuted

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operational defination

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how one discribe the behavior you are researching

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Descriptive Study

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Case Study - Survey - Naturalistic observation

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correleation

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how often 2 events occur, does not imply causality - strength and direction (inc sample - inc Correlation)

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illusory correlation

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no such relationship exists

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independent variable

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controlled by scientist

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dependent variable

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what you looking at

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increase cases

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decrease variability

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statistical significants

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p< .05

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biological psychologists

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general process - animal brain studies - brain communication

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evocative interactions

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genes affected by environment and environment effects gene presentation

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evolutionary psych

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evolution through mind and behavior - memory, perception, language

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Experience and Brain Development

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Critical Period - Solitary confinement VS Enrichment

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increases in activity

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increase in synaps

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pruning

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use it or loose it

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Parental infuence

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Neglectful - Permissive - Authoritarian - Authoritative***

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other developmental influences

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peers, culture , the NORM

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Gender & Rearing

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Social Learning & Gender Schema Theory

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Social Learning Theory

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learn by observing

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Gender Schema Theory

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hildren learn about what it means to be male and female from the culture in which they live. childern fit in to the NORMS