Unit 1/2 Vocab

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Empiricism

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Theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience.

Hint 1

Senses

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Introspection

Back 2

Examination of one's own mental and emotional state

Hint 2

Observe

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Natural Selection

Back 3

Forms of life having traits that better enable them to adapt to specific environmental pressures

Hint 3

Survival of the fittest

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Structuralism

Back 4

Uses introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind

Hint 4

Structure

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Humanistic

Back 5

Emphasized the growth potential of healthy people

Hint 5

Feel like we belong

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Behaviorism

Back 6

Studying behavior without reference to mental processes

Hint 6

Study what we are doing

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Functionalism

Back 7

Explores mental/behavioral processes function

Hint 7

Keeps good get rid of bad

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Cognitive

Back 8

Relating to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning

Hint 8

Brain computer

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Nature v Nurture

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Born with everything we need or are taught what we need to know

Hint 9

Taught or born with?

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Biopsychosocial Approach

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Blend of biological, psychological, and social

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Cultural factors

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Biological

Back 11

Natural selection of traits

Hint 11

Genes/Hormones

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Socialcultural

Back 12

Interaction of social and cultural elements.

Hint 12

Influence

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Evolutionary

Back 13

Pertaining to development

Hint 13

Good things stay bad things go

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Psychodynamic

Back 14

How unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders.

Hint 14

Disorders

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Positive Psychology

Back 15

The scientific study of human functioning, with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive.

Hint 15

Discover Strengths

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Basic/Applied Research

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Pure Science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base. Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems.

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Increase scientific knowledge and solve practical problems.

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Industrial/Organizational Psychologist

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Study connection of people and their work environments

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Job satisfaction, training, increase productivity

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Human Factors

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Studies interaction of people, machines, and physical environment

Hint 18

User-friendly tech

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Psychiatrist

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Medical doctor that gives therapy and medicine

Hint 19

Gives therapy

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Community Psychologist

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Deal with the broad problems of mental health

Hint 20

Community setting

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Hand sight Bias

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Believe that you are learning the outcome, but we for see it

Hint 21

Know it all

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Operational Definition

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Careful worded statements of exact procedures

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Used in an experiment, so others can replicate

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Confounding Variable

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A factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect in an experiment

Hint 23

Factor

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Inferential Statistics

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Numerical Data that allow one to generalize to infer from sample data the probability of something being true of a population.

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Numbers to infer probability

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Statistical Significance

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A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance.

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Likey of a result occurring by chance