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Psychology
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A broad scientific study of behavior and mental processes or thought.
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What's the difference between a Pshychiatrist and a Clinical psychologists? |
A Psychiatrist is a medical specialty that CAN write prescriptions A Clinical Psychologist are trained in diagnosis and treatment but can NOT prescribe medicine. |
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Difference between Clinical and Counseling Psychologist?
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Clinical Psychologist focus more on psychosis rather than Counseling Psychologist focus more on healthy people who have few mental problems |
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What or the different areas or subs of psychology?
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Health, Education, Industrial Organization, Personality, Cognitive, Clinical, social, Developmental.
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Who and What is recognized as the beginning of scientific pscychology?
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William Wundt and when he opened up the first psychology lab. |
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What are the four goals for studying psychology?
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Describe, Predict, Explain, Control or influence
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Who was Sigmund Feud and what is psychoanalysis?
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a Neurologists, psychoanalysis investigates the unconscious and conscious in the mind.
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What do behaviorists believe?
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that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning.
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What is interactive dualism?
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That the mind and the body are separate and interact to make a peron
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What is a hypothesis?
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A supposition or proposed explanation
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The difference between Structuralism and Functionalism
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Structuralism focus on the brain and what's obvious and Functionalism considers mental life , behavior, and the enviornment
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What are the dependent and independent variables?
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Independent variable is the one we purposely change. Dependent variable is the one we watch and observe to be changed.
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What are confounding variables?
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Factors that's not being studied and if not controlled could affect the outcome.
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Why do scientist randomly assign subjects in a group to an experiment?
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so that every group has equal chance.
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whos Dr. Kenneth B Ckark
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First black president of the APA and his research on the negative effects of discrimination helped end segregation.
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Where do ideas fro research come from?
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observation
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What is the difference between a single blind and a double blind experiment?
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Single blind the test subjects don't know whether their the dependent or independent variable Double blind is when the the doctor doesn't know either |
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What is a placebo and why is it used?
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a placebo is a fake substance given to trick ppl so they can get rid of the lies
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What is brain imaging and how is it used in psychological research?
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