General Psychology Test 1

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Father of psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Structuralism

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Breaking things down (to see how they work)

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Consciousness

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Awareness of ourself and our surroundings through our senses

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Introspection

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To look within

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Edward Titchner

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Grad student who took over Wundt's work.

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Charles Darwin

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Naturalist

Theory of evolution

Adaptation

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William James

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Influenced by Darwin

Went from structuralism to functionalism

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Sigmond Freud

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Psychoanalyst

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Abraham Maslow

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Humanistic psychology

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British Empiricists

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Empirical- observable and measurable

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Wundt & Titchner

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Structuralism

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Darwin & James

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Functionalism

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E.l. Thorndike & Ivan Pavlov

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Behaviorism

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John Watson

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•Behaviorism

•First to study persons behavior

•Used technique that Pavlov used called conditioned emotional response

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B.F. Skinner

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Behaviorism

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What impacted the world of psychology

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Computers

•allows them to study thinking processes

•MRI, CAT scan, PET scan

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Behaviorism

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Used to help solve problems

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Variables

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Anything that can change values

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Independent variable

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The variable that is changed by the experimenter

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Dependent variable

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The variable that the experimenter measures

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Sample of population

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Must have representative sample

Must use random selection

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Correlation

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•Shows relationships between things

•does not show cause and effect

•statistical method

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Scatter plot

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Graph used to show correlation

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Correlation coefficient

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Between -1 and 1

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Positive correlation

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Same direction

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Negative correlation

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Opposite direction

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Mode

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Number that occurs most

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Median

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Range numbers from lowest to highest and it is the middle number

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Mean

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Average of all the numbers

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Normal or bell curve

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Graph to show mean

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Replication research

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Done to confirm previous findings

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Experiment

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Only way to identify cause and effect

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Double-blind study

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Experimenter nor subjects know if they are the control group or the experimental group

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Basic research

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Research done for the purpose of adding to the knowledge base

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Naturalistic observation

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Observing people in their natural habitat

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Placebo

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Fake or false drug given in a study

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Psychology

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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes of humans and other animals

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Gestalt psychology

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"The whole of experience is different from the sum of its parts"

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Experimental psychologist

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Primary activity is conducting research

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Descartes dualism

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Refers to the belief that the mind and body are distinct entities

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Determinism

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Assumes that behavior is caused by physical events either within or outside the body