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What are the goals of psychology? |
to observe, predict, and sometimes control behavior |
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What are the roots of psychology? |
Derived from philosophy (and physical sciences) |
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What did empiricists believe? |
Humans are born as blank slates and learn from experience |
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What is the examination/observation of one's own mental and emotional processes? |
introspection |
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Which psychologist studied that sensing a touch on the thigh is noticed quicker than a touch on the toe? |
Helmholtz |
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What does "psychology as a hub science" mean? |
it connects with many disciplines |
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Who was the first researcher to set up a lab designed to apply the scientific method to psychology? |
Wundt |
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What movement in psychology talks about looking at things as a whole? |
Gestalt |
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The mind can be broken down into its smallest elements of mental experience |
structuralism |
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which psychologist is known for being a blank slate behaviorist? |
Watson |
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Cognitive psychologists think the brain is like what type of technology? |
computer |
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"be all that you can be" relates to what humanistic concept? |
Maslow's hierarchy ---> self-actualization |
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which of the 7 perspectives of psychology is most interested in how we think? |
cognitive |
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set of facts and relationships between facts that can explain and predict related phenomena |
theory |
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"scholars stand on the shoulders of giants" what does this mean? |
we build on those before us |
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What is the main downside to a case study? |
it does not represent the general population |
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what is the main downside of a survey? |
bias |
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correlation coefficient measures what 2 things between 2 variables? |
strength and direction |
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what is the key reason/benefit of experiments? |
to prove causation |
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confounding variable |
third variable that might be influencing the outcome |
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define validity |
the extent to which we measure what we intend to measure |
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define reliability |
consistency |
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when is using the median helpful |
when there are extreme outliers |
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what is the main part of dualism? |
the mind and body are 2 separate things |
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what is the purpose of the IRB |
to make sure experiments are ethical |
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describe longitudinal study |
studies age-related changes. studies the same people over an extended period of time. |
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can you have reliability without validity |
yes |
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2 key traits of a good hypothesis |
falsifiable and testable |
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can you have validity without reliability |
no |
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what is a negative correlation? |
the more of one thing, the less of the other variable |
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what is the name of the behaviorist concept that pavlov is most associated with? |
classical conditioning |
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the unconscious mind, sexuality, and dream analysis is associated with |
freud |
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self-actualization is a concept coined by |
Maslow |
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why would carl rogers be against capital punishment? |
he's a humanist/ all humans are inherently good |
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Watson made a lot of money by |
contributing to advertising |
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if a psychologist doesn't do therapy what else can they do? |
teach, research, counsel |
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what percentage of a doctoral psychologists work as a therapists? |
40% |
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current behaviors and thinking provided some advantage in survival and reproduction to our ancestors |
evolutionary |
