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what is psychology?

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the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes

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what does psychology value and focus on?

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empirical evidence and critical thinking

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are pseudopsychologies scientific?

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no

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what makes psychology challenging?

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  • behaviour is difficult to predict
  • people differ from one another
  • many psychological concepts are difficult to define
  • people react when they are studied
  • culture influences behaviour
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what are psychology’s four goals?

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description, explanation, prediction, change

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who was Wilhelm Wundt?

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father of psychology

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what is structuralism?

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human activity and its products, even perception and thought itself, are constructed and not natural and that everything has meaning

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what is introspection?

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where subjects describe what they are experiencing, when you examine your own thoughts and feelings

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who created functionalism?

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James key leader

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what is neuroscience?

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views behaviour from the brain, nervous system

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what is psychodynamic?

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behaviour comes from the inner, unconscious forces that a person has little control over (dreams)

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what is cognitive?

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how people think and understand the world

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what is behavioural?

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observable behaviour

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who were the leaders of behavioural?

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Watson, pavlov and skinner

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why did behaviouristic critique freud?

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because their theories lacked scientific rigour and were difficult to study. the focus of the study should be measured

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what is humanistic?

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people can control their behaviour and try and reach their full potential

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who were the key leaders in humanistic?

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rogers and maslow

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what is the cognitive perspective?

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how people think and understand the world and it includes memory, thinking, reasoning, problem solving, judging decision making and language

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what is the biopsychosocial model?

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a model that shows the connection between biology, psychology and socio-environmental factors

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what is clinical psychology?

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deals with the study, diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders

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what is health psychology?

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deals with relationships between psychology and physical

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what is evolutionary psychology?

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deals with how behaviour is influenced by genetics from our ancestors

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what are developmental studies?

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how people grow and change from birth to death

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what are personality studies?

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people’s behaviour over time and the traits that make up a person

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what is an observation?
objective, directly experienced with our senses
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what is an inference?
subject to interpretation, private internal mental activities
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what is basic psychological research?
conducted to advance scientific knowledge
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what is applied psychological research?
conducted to solve practical problems
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what are the four major research methods?
experimental, descriptive, correlational, biological
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1. what is experimental research?
manipulation and control of variables, identify a cause and effect
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what are the advantages of experimental research?
allows researchers to have control over variables and can identify a cause and effect
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what are the two groups in experimental research?
experimental (receiving the treatment) and control group (no treatment)
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what is the independent variable and dependent ?(experimental research)
independent: being manipulated dependent: being measured
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what is experimental bias?
factors that change how the independent variable affects the dependent variable
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what is experimental manipulation?
the change that an experimenter produces
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what are disadvatanges of experimental research for the researcher?
experimenter bias and ethnocentrism (one culture is all cultures)
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what is opetional definition?
hypothesis into a testable procedure that can be measured and observed
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2. what is descriptive research?
investigating a person, group or behaviour (naturalistic observation, surveys, case studies)
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how to protect your research?
1. random assignment to condition (participants are assigned to different experimental groups) 2. confound: any variable that could affect the dependent variable and the validity of the experiment
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what are the two potential participant problems in descriptive research?
sample bias: participants are not representative of larger population participant bias: participants are influenced by the researcher or experiment conditions
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what are advantages of descriptive research?
easier to collect Data, description of events that happened
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what are disadvantages of descriptive research?
no control over variables. biases, cannot explain cause or effect
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what are ethical guidlines for human participants in research?
informed consent, voluntary participation, restricted use of deception, debriefing, confidentiality, alternative activities
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why are animals used sometimes in research?
tehy have a shorter life span, greater experimental control
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what is placebo?
a false treatment
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what is the double blind procedure?
the person who gives the drug shouldnt know if its a true drug or placebo
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what is naturalistic observation?
observing some naturally occurring behaviour and does not make a change in the situation
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what is a survey?
people are chosen to represent a larger population are asked a series of questions
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what a case study?
an in depth, intensive investigation of an individual or small group of people
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what is correlational research?
relationship between variables
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what is a positive correlation?
two variables moving in the same direction. how are they related and in what way
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what is a negative correlation?
two variables move in opposite direction
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what is zero correlation?
no relationship between two variables
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what are the advantages of correlational methods?
shows relationship between variables
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what are the disadvantages of correlational methods?
cannot identify cause and effect
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what is biological research?
studies the brain and other parts of the nervous system

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