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28 Cards in this Set
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Definition of Psychology
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Scientific study of behavior & mental processes
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Definition of Critical Thinking
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Process of objectively evaluating, comparing, analyzing & synthesizing information
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4 goals of psychology
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Description, Explaination, Prediction, Change
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Psychoanalytics
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Unconscious processes & unresolved conflicts
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Behavioral Psych
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Observable, Measurable, Overt
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Humanistic
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Self-actualization, self-awareness, human nature, moving towards positive psychology
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Cognitive
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Thoughts, memory, perception, language
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Neuroscience / Biopsychology
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Scientific study of the nervous system & its effect on psychology
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Sociocultural
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Social norms, cultural determinants that influence behavior & mental processes
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Evolutionary
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the way things evolve - behaviorial & survival skills and the impact these things have on behavioral & mental processes
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Physical abuse
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non-accidental injury of a child <18 by a parent or guardian
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Informed consent
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Ethical consideration - sign waiver & give permission to use information
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Inform
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Ethical consideration - inform the participants of a research study of exactly what they're doing
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Confidentiality
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Ethical consideration - tester must protect confidentiality of participants
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Risk Management
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Ethical consideration - minimize risk to participants.
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Deception
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Ethical consideration - avoid deception and if deception takes place, you must inform the subject that they were being decepted
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Hypothesis
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Predictable relationship between 2 variables. if a, then b.
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Operational definition
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Precise description of how variables are going to be evaluated
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Natural observation
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Research method, no intervention by the researcher
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Survey
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Research method, yes/no questions
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Questionnaire
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Research method, short answer questions
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Case study
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Research method, one specific person is studied
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Theory
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organized set of ideas designed to make predictions about behavior or mental processes.
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Response bias
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A subject says what the researcher wants to hear, not what is actually true
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Experimental
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Research method - control & manipulate variables to prove a cause and effect relationship.
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Correllational
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Research method - used to strongly imply a cause between two variables.
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Biological research
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study of brain & nervous system and how that effects behavior & mental processes
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Experimenter/researcher bias
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researcher has put time into project and wants it to turn out a certain way - overlooks data that is contrary to their opinion. unable to be objective
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