Introduction

Question 0

Culture

Answer 0

The beliefs, values, rules, norms and customs existing within a group of people who share a common language and environment.

Question 1

Critical Thinking

Answer 1

Systematically evaluating information to reach reasonable conclusions

Question 2

Mind/body problem

Answer 2

Are the mind and body separate and distinct or is the mind the brains subjective experience.
Dualism-they are different
Monoism-they are the same.

Question 3

Nature/nurture Debate

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The arguments concerning whether the psychological characteristics are biologically innate or acquired.

Question 4

Introspection

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A systematic examination of subjective mental experiences that requires people to inspect and report on the content of their thoughts.
Created by Wilhelm Wundt.
Method used for research into cognitive experiences.
Problems: experience is subjective, reporting an experience changes the experience.

Question 5

Structuralism

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An approach to psychology based on the idea that conscious experience can be broken into 4 components.
Quality, intensity, duration and clarity.
Created by Edward Titchener and it sprang from introspection.

Question 6

Stream of consciousness

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Idea created by William James.

Describes each person’s continuous series of ever changing thoughts.

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Functionalism

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An approach to psychology concerned with the adaptive purpose or function of the mind and behavior.
Presents by William James.
Mind comes into existence due to human evolution.

Question 8

Gestalt Theory

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A theory base on the idea that the whole world of personal experience is different from the sum of its constituent elements.

Question 9

Unconscious

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The mental processes that operate below the level of conscious awareness.
Freud

Question 10

Psychoanalysis

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Method that attempts to bring the unconscious to the conscious so that conflicts can be revealed.
Freud

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Behaviorism

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A psychological approach that emphasizes the role of environmental forces in producing behavior.
Learned and acquired all behavior through environmental factors.
John. B. Watson

Question 12

Cognitive Psychology

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The study of how people think, learn, and remember.

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Cognitive Neuroscience

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The study of neural mechanisms that underlie thought, learning, and memory.

Question 14

Social Psychology

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The study of how people are influenced by their interactions with others.

Question 15

False Recognition

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Fake memory replaces real one.

Question 16

Psychology

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Study of the mind, brain and behavior.

Question 17

Science

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A certain way of approaching new knowledge.
Emphasis on empirical evidence gained through experiments.
Uses critical thinking to approach problems.

Question 18

Skepticism

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Consider carefully

Question 19

Confirmation Bias

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Recall evidence that supports an idea but not the evidence that disproves.

Question 20

Behavior is Multiply Determined

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There is no one single cause of behavior but there are instead many variables.

Question 21

Experiment

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The manipulation of one or more variables in order to study their effect on behaviors.
Hold all other variables constant.
Can determine potential causation.

Question 22

Independent Variable

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The variable being manipulated.

Question 23

Dependent Variable

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The variable that is being questioned and looked at. Thought to be dependent on the independent variable.

Question 24

Confounding Variable

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Lurking variable.

Variable is related to and therefore varies with the independent variable.

Question 25

Random assignment

Answer 25

A method used to weed out extraneous variables by making sure there there is no fundamental different between two testing groups.