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"Chapter 1"
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"Psychology"
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"the scientific study of behavior & mental processes"
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"-aristotle"
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"384-322 bc connection between soul and body"
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"-plato"
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"427-347bc dualism between body/soul ‚ interrelated"
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"-rene descartes"
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"1596-1650 ad ‚ mind/body have reciprocal interaction via pineal gland"
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"Wilhelm Wundt"
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"1879 ‚ first psychology lab in Germany"
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"objective introspection"
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"process of examining ones own thoughts & mental activities"
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"structuralism"
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"early perspective in psychology associated with Wundt
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"functionalism"
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"early perspective associated w/ James ‚ ‚ÄúHow does consciousness function‚Äù allows ppl to adapt
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"Gestalt psychology"
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"focuses on perception or sensation ‚ patterns/whole figures ‚Äúwhole is greater than sum of parts‚Äù"
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"psychoanalysis"
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"theory/therapy based on Freud. Insight therapy for fear/anxiety focues on unconsciousness/early childhood"
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"behaviorism "
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"science that focuses on observable behavior (only thing that matters) ‚ Thoughts/feelings unimportant ‚ Watson"
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"psychodynamic perspective"
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"modern version of psychoanalysis based on development of sense of self"
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"cognitive perspective"
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"modern- focuses on memory
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"cognitive neuroscience"
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"study of physical changes in brain/nervous system during thinking"
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"sociocultural perspective"
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"focuses on the relationship between social behavior & culture"
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"biopsychological perspective "
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"attributes behavior to biological events in body ‚ hormones
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"evolutionary perspective"
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"focuses on biological bases of universal mental characteristics ‚ traits shared by all humans"
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"psychiatrist"
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"MD specialized in psycho-disorder"
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"psychoanalyst"
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"professionals trained in practices of Freud"
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"psychiatric social worker"
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"social worker w/ training in therapy methods"
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"psychologist"
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"professional w/ PHD & training"
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"replicate"
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"repeating a study to demonstrate reliability of results"
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"observer effect"
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"tendency to behave diff. From normal when being watched"
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"case study"
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"study of 1 person in great detail"
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"representative sample"
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"random selection from a population"
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"coorelation coefficient"
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"# derived from formula ‚ measures stregnth & direction of cooreleation"
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"operational definition"
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"defines a variable so it can be measured accurately"
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"independent variable"
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"variable that is manipulated ‚ not affected by experiment eg ‚ male/female"
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"experimenter effect"
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"when a study is influenced by expectations of experimenter"
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"Single-blind study"
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"participants don't know if they are in control group or exp. Group"
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"Double-blind study"
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"no one knows the group they are in or whats going on"
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"pseudopsychologies"
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"system of explaining human behavior that is not based on scientific evidence"
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"edward titchner"
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"introscpect about objects & thoughts
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"william james"
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"Functionalism"
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"behavioral perspective"
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"focuses on conditioning
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"humanistic perspective"
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"free will- choose destiny"
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"Naturalistic Observation"
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"Eg ‚ observing monkeys in forest. Very uncontrolled don't know why things happen"
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"lab obseration"
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"controlled
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"placebo effect"
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"what happens when experiment does nothing but ppl still have effect"
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