Intro To Psychology

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Academic psychologist

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Teaching and conducting research

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Applied psychologist

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Improves products so that people can use them more effectively

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Behavior

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Outhwardly observable acts of an individiual, alone or in a group

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Behaviorism

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School that focuses on how a specific stimulus (object person or event) evokes a spedific response (behavior)

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Bias

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when beliefs ,expectations or habits alter how participants in a study respond or affect how a researcher sets up or conducts a study thereby influencing its outcome

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Clinical Psychologist

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administers and interprets psychological tests, provides psychotherapy

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Cognitive neuroscience

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a blending of cognitive psychology and neuroscience that aims to specify how the brain stores and processes information

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Cognitive psychology

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The approach in psychology that attempts to characterize how info is stored and operated on internally

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Confound

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an independent variable that varies along with the ones of interest and could be the actual basis for what you are measuring

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Control Condition

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A condition administered to the same participants who receive the experimental condition: this effectively makes the participants both the experimental and the control group.

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Control group

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A group treated exactly as the experimental group except that the one aspect of the situation being studied is not manipulated for this group.

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Correlation coefficient

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an index of how closely 2 sets of measured variables are , which ranges from -1 to +1 the higher the correlation in either direction the better we can predict the value of both types of measurement

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Counseling psychologist

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helps people with issues that naturally arise during the course of life.

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Data

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objective observations

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Debriefing

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an interview after a study in order to make the person understand the why of the study

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dependent variable

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the aspect that changes when the independent variable is changed

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double blind design

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nor the participant knows what to expect and the experimenter is blind to the condition assigned to the participant

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effect

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differences in the dependent variable due to the changes in the independent one

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evolutionary psychology

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The approach that assumes that certain cognitive strategies and goals are so important that natural selection has built them into our brains

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experimental condition

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the participant receives the complete procedure that defines the experiment.

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experimental group

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a group that receives the complete procedure that defines the experiment

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experimenter expectancy effects

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Expectations lead to treat participants in a way that encourages them to produce the expected results

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funtionalism

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The school of psychology that sought to understand how the mind helps individuals function or adapt to the word.

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Gestalt

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Understanding mental processes that focuses on the idea that the whole is more than the sum of its parts

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Humanistic Psychology

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School that assumes people have positive values, free will and deep inner creativity the combination of which leads them to choose lifefulfilling paths to personal growth

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mental processes

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what the brain does

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meta analysis

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Statistical technique that allows researchers to combine results from different studies wheather there is a relationship

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operational definition

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a definition of a variable that specifies how it is measuered or manipulated

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structuralism

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Basic elements of experience to form mental structures

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pseudopsychology

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unsupported theories

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psychodynamic theory

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unconscious and child traumas
Freud

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random assignment

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participants are assigned by chance to experiment and control group

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reliability

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same results are obtained when experiment is repeated

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response bias

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participants respond in a particular way (yes more than no)

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validity

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a measure is valid if it does in fact measure what it is supposed to measure