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clinical work
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deal directly with clients for purporses of therapuetic guidance
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independent variable
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researcher changes the variable
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biopsychosocial
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seeks an understanding in terms of psychological social and biological factors that contribute to behavior
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behavioral genetics
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trying to see if the genes influenced the behavior
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naturalistic observation
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going outside the lab and into community to observe behavior of people in their normal activities
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biological psychology
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understand behavior by studying the anatomy and physiology
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case study
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psychologist conducts intensive investigation of a single person to find conclusions about their behavior
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psychoanalysis
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forms of psychological treatment
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Behaviorism
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relation between obervable behavior and enviromental events
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survey
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method of investigation in which researcher has people answer ?'s
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dependent variable
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researcher measure
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causal inferences
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conjectures about cause and effect relationships regarding behavior that seek to explain what causes a person to behave in a certain way
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psychodynamic theory
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conflicting mental processes as well as the importance of early childhood experiences
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research ethics
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deception, physical or psychological pain, animal research, confidentiality
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correlational methods
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assess the degree of relationship between two or more variables
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experimental methods
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research designs investigating cause and effect relationships by controlling variables and noting effects on other variables
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test
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procedure used to measure an attribute of one or more people at a time
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negative correlation
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-1, increases in value of one attribute are associated with decreases in value of another attribute
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correltional design
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researchers observe the degree of association between two or more attributes that occur naturally
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cognitivism
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first analyze how people think....started in the sixties
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humanistic psychology
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emphasizes free will and conscious experience in personal development instead of un.
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quasi experimental design
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participants not randomly assigned to groups so the design is not a controlled experimental design
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critical thinking
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conscious direction of mental processes toward representing and processing info
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operational definition
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specify how to test or measure the particular variable
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