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11 Cards in this Set
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Rene Descartes
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Believed the mind and body are separated; dualism
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John Locke
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Believed the mind is a blank slate; no innate ideas
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Important People: Wilhelm Wundt |
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Structuralism
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Early school of psychology that discovered basic elements of the mind
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Skepticism
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When A behavior is accepted only after other possible explanations have been ruled out
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Functionalism
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Founded by: William James Focused on the functions of the mind/behavior in adapting to the environment |
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Scientific Method
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Method of conducting scientific investigations
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Case study
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A single person/rare case that is studied over a prolonged period of time
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Correlation
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Exist whenever 2 variables are associated/related to each other |
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Positive/Direct Correlation
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When both variables increase or decrease at the same time
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Negative Correlation
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When one variable increases while the other decreases and vice versa
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