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35 Cards in this Set
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What is PSYCH?
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A Science
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What is the difference between a Psychiatrist and Psychologist?
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A Psychiatrist is able to prescribe medicine.
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Who was Wilhelm Wundt and what did he do in 1879?
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-Opened his first full laboratory with more room and equipment.
-Father of experimental science |
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What is a theory?
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An explanation of something
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A good theory has four factors:What are they?
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*Hypothesis-testable prediction w/ direction
*parsimonious-simple *make people think *fixes real world problems |
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What does Parsimonious mean?
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Simple
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What is Anecdotal Evidence?
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It has not research or data to support it.
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What is an operational definition?
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It allows us to measure or observe something.
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What is sampling?
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A representative chunk of your population.
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What is connivence sampling?
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*easily studied
*Group readily accessible |
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What is a random sample?
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*Every one has a chance to be picked
*EX = Saint Paul ID |
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What is a control group?
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*The group that does not get manipulated.
*Gets nothing |
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What is an Independent Variable?
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-Variable that gets manipulated
-changes on purpose |
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What is a Hypothesis?
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Testable prediction with direction
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What is participant bias?
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they don't represent the lager of the population
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What is selection bias?
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participants are assigned to a certain study.
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What are the four confounding variables?
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-demand characteristics
-selection bias -placebo bias -experimental bias |
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Results need to be what?
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replicable
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Why do we use correlational studies?
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-experiments are unethical
-impossible experiments -EX = tornados, making pregnant women drink alcohol |
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What is a correlational study?
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-studies the relationship between two variables , and comes out with a prediction.
-does not controls it measures |
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What is a correlation coefficient?
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-Two separate pieces of information
-directions the variables move in relation to each other |
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What does sedentary mean?
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-tending to spend much time seated
-somewhat inactive |
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Correlation does or does NOT equal causation?
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-NOT
-ice cram does not cause murders |
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What does o represent?
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Not predictable
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What does 1 represent?
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very predictable
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What direction does + represent?
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in the same direction
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What does - represent?
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Move in different direction
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What are Demand Characteristics?
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clues that tell subjects what result the experimenter hopes to find
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What is the placebo effect?
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-in their head
-Getting better because they think they got better, they didn't get the med they got a sugar till instead |
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What is experimenter bias?
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researchers distort procedures or results based on expected outcome of the study
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What is naturalistic observation?
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-observation in natural environment
-boss watching you work |
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laboratory design is what?
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-have control over the environment
-it is a fake environment |
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What is a case history study?
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-intensive study of a person
-only based on one person |
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What is good/bad about a survey study?
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-get a variety of people
-you get fake/false answers |
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What are the four research designs?
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-naturalistic
-laboratory -case history/study -survey |
