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29 Cards in this Set
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Psychology
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is the scientific study of behavioral and mental processes.
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Empirical Evidence
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Info acquired by direct observation and measurement using scietific methods
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critical thinking
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the process of objectivily evaluting, comparing, and analysing info
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Four main goals
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describe, explain, predict, and change behavioral and mental processes
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Wilhelm Wundt father of psycholgy
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studying conscious experience. theier approach was structuralism, sought to identify the basic structures of mental life through introspection
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introspection
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sensations, feelings, images
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structuralism
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sought to identify the basic building blocks of menyal life through introspection
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Behavioral perspectives
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emphaisizes objective, observable enviromental influences on overt behavor.
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Biopsychosocial model
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a unifying theme of modern psychology that considers biological, psychological and social processes.
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seven parts of Biopsychosocial model
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behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, neuroscientific, evolutionary, sociocultural, physchoanalytic
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Basic research
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in a laboratory covers first three goals, to advance general understanding
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applied research
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meets the fourth goal. to solve practical problems
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scientific method
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scientific progress comes from repeatedly challenging and revising existing theories and building new ones
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informed constant
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the researcheer must inform the participant of all parts of experiment and the particaoant agrees to take part
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debriefing
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after the study informing the participant of the purpose of the study and all other parts of the study
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descrpitive
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involes systematically observing and describing behaviopr withouth manipulationg variables. observations, surveys, and case studies.
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correlational
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statistical analyses of realtionships between variables. identify realtionships and asses how well one variable predicts another
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bilogical
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studies of the brain and other parts of the nervous system.
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experimental
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identify cause and effect. manipulation and control of variables.
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getting more out of studying
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familiarization, active reading, and visual learning
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functionalism
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how the mind functions to adapt to humans and animals to their enviroment
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humanistic perspective
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free will and self-actualization
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postive psychology
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the scientic study of optimal human functioning
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cognitive perspective
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thoughts and memory
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neuroscientific/biopsychological perspective
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examines behavior through genetics
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evolutionary perspective
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natural selection adaptation and evolution of behavior and mental processes
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sociocultural perspective
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emphaisizes social interarctions and cultural determinants
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Neuroscience
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studies how biological processes relate to behavioral and mental processes
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behavioral genetics
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genes hold the code for inherited traits scientist use BG methods to determine the realative influences of heredity on complex traits
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