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20 Cards in this Set
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Psychology |
the science of behavior and mental processes |
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4 goals of psychology |
behavior and mental processes |
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J. Henry Alston |
structuralism |
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Max Wertheimer |
Gestalt psychology |
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William James |
functionalism |
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Hermann Ebbinghaus & Mary Whiton Calkins |
human memory |
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Alfred Binet |
measurement of intelligence |
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Ivan Pavlov John B. Watson Margaret Floy Washburn |
behaviorism |
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Sigmund Freud |
psychoanalysis |
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Humanistic psychologists |
humans determine their own fates through the decisions they make |
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Bandura |
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Contemporary psychoanalysts |
continue to emphasize unconscious conflicts, but suggest that motives other than sex and aggression are important |
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neuroscience perspective |
studies the relationship between:
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sociocultural perspective |
a contemporary perspective that emphasizes culture, gender, and ethnic factors |
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Psychologists- who work in basic areas |
conduct basic research |
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Applied Psychologists |
put psychological knowledge to work helping people in a variety of settings |
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Psychologists use three major scientific methods: |
(1) Descriptive methods: describe behavior and which include the use of surveys, naturalistic observation, and clinical methods (2) Correlational studies: predict behavior by studying the relationship between variables (3) Formal experiments: study the cause-and-effect relationships between variables |
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Formal experiments |
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Ethical Principles of Research -humans |
Protects human participants by:
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Ethical Principles of Research -animals |
Guided by the principles of:
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