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15 Cards in this Set
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Psychology
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Science of behavior and mental processes.
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What teaches us the importance of asking good questions?
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Case of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the fairies.
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Bias
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Beliefs that interfere with objectivity.
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Law of Parsimony
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Simple explanations are preferred to complex ones.
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Placebo Effect
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Positive effects associated with a person’s belief and attitude about the drug, even when there is no active ingredient.
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Scientific Method
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Scientific investigation where a person makes an observation, proposes a theory, makes an hypothesis, and tests the hypothesis.
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Piage
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Studied the cognative development in children.
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Case Study
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In depth analysis of one person.
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Naturalistic Observation
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Study of behavior in its natural setting with no attempt to alter it.
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Freud
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Used case studies, had a therapy office, patients with conversion disorders.
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Assimilate
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Categories that exist in the mind.
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Accomodation
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Alter the idea of what you know to fit new information.
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Correlation Research
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Research that investigates the relationship between 2 people.
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Scatterplot
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Graph that illustrates the relationship between 2 people.
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Correlation Coefficient
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Number between +1 and -1 that represents the degree and direction of relationship 2 variables.
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