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31 Cards in this Set
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Applied Research
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Scientific Inquiry that is designed and carried out with practical applications or goal in mind.
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Pure Research
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Research for the sake of advancing scientific knowledge.
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Primary Research
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original and direct investigation.
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Secondary Research
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New evaluations of existing information that had been collected by other researchers.
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Internal Validity
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Certainty that Experimental procedures did indeed cause the changes observed in the study group.
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External Validity
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refers to our ability to generalize the results of our study to other settings.
example = could we generalize our results to other classrooms? |
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Reliability
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If it tests the intelligence for all under all circumstances
- if a person's score on the same test given twice is similar. |
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Experimental Mortality
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loss of respondents from comparison groups, which may occur when more than one group is being tested.
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Experimental History
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systematically defamiliarize and displace historical objects.
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Maturation
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processes occurring within the respondents or subjects that operate as a result of time.
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History
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specific events that may occur between the first and second observations, may effect measurement.
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Biological Theory
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determination of human behavior, including criminality, are constitutionally or physiologically inherited.
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Atavism
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Used by C.L. that criminals are physiological throwbacks to earlier stages of human evolution.
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Phrenology
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study of the shape of the head to determine anatomical correlations of human behavior.
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Somatotyping
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classification of humans into types according to body build and other physical characteristics.
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Physiognomy
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science of reading personality characteristics from facial features.
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Endomorph
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body type as soft and round or overweight
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Mesomorph
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body type as athletic and muscular
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Ectomorph
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body type as thin and fragile
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Criminaloids
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Used by C.L. describes occasional criminals who were pulled into criminality primarily by the environment
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Serotonin
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"Behavior regulating chemical" low levels of neurotransmitter cause aggressive behavior.
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Testosterone
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Primary male sex hormone, its function is to control sexual drive, high levels of hormones led to aggression.
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Human Genome Project
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determining DNA sequence
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Sociobiologists on Violence
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believe violence comes from territory
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Characteristics of a Psychopathic Personality
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alert, friendly, likable, agreeable, trust, cant love
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Signs of Psychopathy
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bed-wetting, animal cruelty, fire-setting, sex assault, lying, sleepwalking,
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Psychogenic cause of Anti-social Personality
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Characteristics of Psychotic Individual
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grossly distorted conception of reality, moods swings are inappropriate, marked eneffiency of getting along with others, cares only for themselves
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ID
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Pleasure Principle, drives; wishes, urges, and desires
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EGO
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conscious mind, controls behavior and in touch with external reality
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SUPEREGO
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Mainly Unconscious; Keeps us on the straight and narrow
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