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38 Cards in this Set
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four viewpoints of psychology
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hollistic, social behavioral, physiological, intraphsyic
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Phrenology
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Mind has a few inborn faculties (thinking, feeling, etc)
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Association Psychology
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Ideas that came to mind through activities, experiences, etc
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Basic Research
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Knowledge is aquired for curiosity reasons
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Applied Research
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taking findings and trying to use them towards a goal
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Representative Sample
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Sample thats sufficient size to reflect universe
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Case Studies
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Intensive examination of 1 or more people
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Naturalistic Observations
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Studying behavior as it occurs naturally
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Surveys
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Collects information about attitudes and behaviors
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Cross Cultural Comparison
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Comparing behavior of people who live in vastly different cultures
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Longitudinal/Cross Sectional Studies
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Examines how behavior changes with age
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The laboratory based experiment
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Observes effects of treatments on behavior
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Independent Variable
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The variable that changes while keep all others constant
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Dependent Variable
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Variable that experimenter thinks is going to change
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Experimental Group
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Randomly selected subjects exposed to experiment
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Control Group
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Randomly selected, not exposed to treatment
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Correlation
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the tendency of two things to occur together
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Double Blind Technique
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Experimenters dont know whos experimental group and whos the control group
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Proximate Causes of Behavior
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The immediate day to day environmental factors that influence our responses
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Ultimate Causes of behavior
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things in past that effect behavior
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Evolutionary Psychology
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Study of how organisms long term history has contributed to behavior adaptation
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Artificial Selection
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Selecting some animals to breed but not others based on desirable characteristics
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Natural Selection
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Organisms reproduce differentially within any given population some produce more offspring than others
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Reproductive Success
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Ability of an animal to produce offspring
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Variation
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Animals differ in both physical and behavioral characteristics
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Competition
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Individuals of a given species share the same environment therefore they compete for food, mates, territory
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Phenylketonuna (PKU)
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A single gene effect, lower IQs, shorter height
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Karyotyping
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Photographing of chromosomes
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Afferent Axon
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carries info into the cell body
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Efferent Axon
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Carriers info out of cell body
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Agonists
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Drugs that facilitate effects of neurotransmitters
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Antagonists
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drugs that oppose the effects of neurotransmitters
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Serotonin
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Neurotransmitter that acts on modd, appetite, violence ,
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Schizophrenia
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Caused by an overactive dopamine system
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Postsynaptic neuron
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inhibited by the transmitter substances released by another neuron
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Monogamy
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Reproductive strategy in which parental investment is shared, but not always equal
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Phenotype
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The interaction of its genotype with the environment
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Organizational Psychology
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Primary goal to include the study of workplace
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