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39 Cards in this Set
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Pseudoscience based upon popular opinion |
Psychobabble |
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Who is the father of psychology |
Wilhelm wundt |
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Who created structuralism |
Tichener |
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Who created functionalism |
William James |
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The process of examining and measuring ones own thoughts and mental activities |
Objective introspection |
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Study of structure/basic elements of the mind associated with Wilhelm wundt and Edward tichener |
Structuralism |
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The focus of study of how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work and play associated with William James who was heavily influenced by darwins natural selection |
Functionalism |
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Early perspective in psych focusing on perception and sensation particularly the perception of patterns and whole figures associated with max wertheimer |
Gestalt psychology |
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Believed that psychological events such as perceiving and sensing couldn't be broken down into any smaller elements and still be properly understood. "Study whole patterns rather than small pieces of them" |
Max Wertheimer |
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The theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud |
Psychoanalysis |
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A process in which a trained psychological professional helps a person gain insights into changing his/her behavior |
Psychotherapy |
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A Russian psychologist who worked with dogs and created the process of conditioning |
Ivan pavlov |
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A reflex such as salvation, normally produced by actually having food in ones mouth could be caused to occur in response to a new unrelated stimulus such as the sound of a ticking metronome |
Process of conditioning |
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The science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only |
Behaviorism |
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Believed that all behavior stems come from unconscious repression. Unconscious mind has the strongest influence on behavior. Ex.) phobias can't be cured without years of psychoanalysis |
Sigmund Freud |
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Believed that all behavior is learned. Ex.) phobias are learned through the process of conditioning |
Watson |
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Believes that everything has to do with mom. Mommy issues=****** up life |
Sigmund Freud |
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Biological, learning, social-cultural, humanist, feminist and cognitive |
Major psychological perspectives |
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Freud + unconsciousness |
Psychodynamic |
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Emphasizes the mental processes and challenges the way you think |
Cognitive |
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Examines how body and mind interact with the environment |
Biological perspective |
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How environment + experience effect a persons actions. Rewards and punishments |
Learning perspective |
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REBT |
Rational, emotive, behavioral, therapy |
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Believes in the free will and full human potential. Psychoanalysis = too pessimistic. Behaviorism= too mechanistic |
Humanist perspective |
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Focuses on equality and analyzes gender relations and behavior of the sexes |
Feminist perspective |
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Precision, skeptism, reliance on empirical evidence, willingness to making risky predictions |
Key to scientific research |
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Precision, skeptism, reliance on empirical evidence, willingness to making risky predictions |
Key to scientific research |
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Theory must predict what will happen but also what will not happen. Must be able to be stated in a way that makes it possible to reject it. |
Principal of falsifiability |
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Tendency to look for info that confirms ones beliefs |
Confirmation bias |
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A variable in which an experiment manipulates |
Independent variable |
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Variable that an experimenter predicts will be effected by manipulation of the IV. |
Dependent variable |
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Comparison condition in which subjects are not exposed to the same treatment as the experimental condition |
Control group |
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Measure of how strongly two variables are related to another |
Correlation |
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Measure of the strengths of the correlation in value from -1.00 to +1.00. The closer to -1.00 or +1.00 signifies a stronger relationship |
Correlation coefficient |
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Hypothesis |
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Closer to zero |
Correlation has no relationship |
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A precise definition of a term in the hypothesis. Ex) alcohol increases dancing ability. Define what kind of alcohol and what type of dancing |
Operational definition |
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A precise definition of a term in the hypothesis. Ex) alcohol increases dancing ability. Define what kind of alcohol and what type of dancing |
Operational definition |
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Organized system of assumptions |
Theory |
