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16 Cards in this Set
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William Wundt |
Founder of psychology, and structuralism |
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Structuralism |
Analysis of human culture, behavior, cognition |
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Functionalism |
how mental processes adapt to environment |
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Gestalt |
Philosophy that something can look different to others, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" |
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Similarity |
Look at things as a whole ex flock of birds |
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Psychoanalysis |
Behavior influenced by inner unconscious forces |
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Behaviourism |
Psychology should only study observable behaviour rather than mental processes (skinner/pavlov/watson) |
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Humanistic |
Suggests that everyone strives to grow, hierarchy of self actualization. Humans are innately good. |
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Descriptive research |
Natural setting, observing people in classroom |
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Laboratory research |
In a lab ex sleep study with equipment |
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Survey research |
Large survey, asking opinions |
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Independent variable |
What causes the results ex taking a pill, the pill can be manipulated |
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Dependent variable |
The result of the experiment |
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Expiremental group |
Participants exposed to the treatment |
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Controlled group |
Participants who are exposed to same environment but NO treatment |
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Correlation method |
Positive vs negative- determines the relationship between the 2 variables |
