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24 Cards in this Set
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Accuracy
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gathering of laboratory and real world data precisely
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Correlation
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NOT CAUSATION, events not necessarily casually related
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Counseling Psychologist
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works with people who have behavior problems; career planning; marriage
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Debriefing
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information revealed following an experiment
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Educational Psychologist
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focuses on how learning proceeds in classroom, how inteligence affects performance, relationship between personality and learning
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Introspection
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Description and analysis of what one is thinking and feeling or just thought about
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Engineering Psychologist
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focuses on how to use machine most efficiently
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Forensic Psychologist
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focuses on legal issues, evaluates when an inmate is ready for parole, or whether a specific rehab program is achieving its goals
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Health Psychologist
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focuses on the way lifestyle changed can facilitate health improvement
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Hypothesis
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educated guess
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Industrial/organizational psychologist
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concerned with the way employers evaluate employees; focuses on personnel selection, work behavior and appraisals
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Objectivity
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evaluating research without preconceived ideas
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Participant
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previously know as the subject of an experiment; behavior observed for data collection
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Psychology
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science of behavior and mental processes
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Replication
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repeating an experiment to verify results
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Structuralism
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study of mental life, immediate and conscious experience;
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introspection
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what individual is thinking and feeling about last thoughts
-Wicht -Titchner |
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Functionalism
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how and why the mind works, study of consciousness; overt behavior
-William James |
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Gestalt
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studies total experience, mold and analyze patterns
-Wertheimer -Kurt Koffka |
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Psychoanalysis
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psychological maladjustment is consequence of anxiety caused by unresolved conflit
-sigmund freud |
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Behaviorism
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focuses and describes what is observable
-John Watson: overt behavior -Skinner: environment determines behavior |
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Humanisitic
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free will and inherently good, desire for self-actualization
-Maslow -Rogers |
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Cognitive
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fovuses on mental processes (learning, memory, thinking) : people do good/bad things b/c of ideas and thoughts
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Biological
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hereditary and biological structures affect behavior
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