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Chapter 1 Flashcards

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What is psychology

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  • the scientific study of the mind, brain, and behaviour
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3 levels of analysis

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  1. social and cultural influences
  2. psychological
  3. biological
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Social and cultural Influences

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  • social or behaviour level
  • involoves relating to other and personal relationship
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psychological

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  • mental of neurological level
  • involves thoughts, feeling, and emotions
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Biological

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  • molecular or neurochemical level
  • involves molecules and brain structure
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Why is psychology difficult to study

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  • multiply determined
  • rarely independent
  • individual differences
  • reciprocal determinism
  • behaviour is often shaped by culture
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Naive realism

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  • people are prone
  • we believe the world is exactly. how we see it
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reciprocal determinism

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  • people often influence each other
    Example: stimulus enhancement (not eating unless other people eat)
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Emic approach

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  • study culture from the perspective of someone who grew up in the culture
  • allows for a better understanding of the unique characteristics of the culture
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Etic approach

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  • study the culture from the perspective of an outsider
  • allows to view culture from a broader approach
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Why is common sense not enough

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naive realism

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Empirical evidence

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  • gained through experience and observation
  • objective
    WHY? –> minimize bias
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Scientific theory

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  • is an explanation for a larger number of findings in the natural world. Offers an account that ties multiple factors into one package
  • testable
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Hypothesis

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  • specific (directional), testable prediction derived from a scientific theory
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Misconceptions of scientific theories

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  • a theory only explains only specific event
  • a theory is an educated guess
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Observer bias

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  • possible to influence the interpretation of results
  • can occur even if aware of own bias
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Confirmation bias

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  • tendency to selectively look for information that conforms to our hypotheses and overlook information that argues against it
  • Example: Lord, Ross, and Shepard, 1979
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Belief preservation

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  • is the tendency to stick to our initial beliefs even in light of new evidence
  • Example: Ross, Lepper, & Hubbard 1975
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Metaphysics claims

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  • are assertions about the world that cannot be tested
  • outside the relm of science
    Example: belief in god
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Pseudoscience

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  • is a set of claims that seem scientific, but are not
  • important in todays digital world
  • safeguards against conformation bias and belief preservation
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Warning signs of Pseudoscience

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  • exaggerated claims
  • over reliance on anecdotes
  • absence of connectivity ot other research
  • lack of review by other scholars
  • lack of self-correction’
    -psychobabble (big words)
  • evidence
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Why are we drawn to pseudoscience

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  • patternicity
  • provides confort (terrormanagement)
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antidote against pseudosciene

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logical fallacies

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Emotional reasoining fallacy

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  • error of using our emotions for evaluating the validity of a claim
    EXAMPLE: “ the idea that daycare might have a negative emotional efffects on children gets me really upset, so I refuse to believe it”
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Bandwagon fallacy

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  • error of assumin gthat a claim is correct because many people believe it
    EXAMPLE: “lots of people I know believe in astrology, so there’s got to be something to it”
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either-or fallacy

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  • error of framing a question as though we can answer it in only one of two extreme ways
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not me fallacy

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  • error of believing were immmune to errors in thinking that afflict other people
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appeal to authority fallacy

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  • Error of accepting a claim merely because an authority figure endorses it
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genetic fallacy

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  • error of confusing the correctness of a belief with its origins or genesis
    -EXAMPLE “Freud’s views about personality development can’t be right because Freuds thinking was shaped by sexist views popular at the time
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Argument from antiquity fallacy

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  • error of assuming a beleif must be valid just because its been around for a long time
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Argument from adverse consequences fallacy

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  • error of confusing the validity of data with its real-world consequences
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appeal to ignorance fallacy

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  • error of assuing that a claim must be true because no one has shown it to be false
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Naturalistic fallacy

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  • error of inferring a moral judgement from a scientific fact
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Hasty generalization fallacy

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  • error of drawing a conclusion on the basis of insufficent evidence
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circular reasoning fallacy

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  • error of basing a claim on the same claim reworded in slightly diffrent terms
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Dangers of Pseudoscience

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  • oppertunity cost (effects)
  • direct harm (dealth)
  • blocks scientific thinking
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Scientific skepticism

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  • the approach of evaluating all claims with an open mind, but insisting on persuasive evidence before accepting them as true
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what is a core aspect of scientific thinking

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  • critical thinking
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Six principles of scientific thinking

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  • ruling out rival hypotheses
  • correction vs. causation
  • falsifiability
  • replicability
  • extraordinary claims
  • occam’s razor
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Wilhelm Wundt

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1879
- developed the first true laboratory of psychology in Leipzig, Germany
- pioneered the technique of introspection to study mental processes

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Early Psychology

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  • did not exsit, early psychologists held position in philosophy
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Structuralism leading figure

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E.B. Titchener

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Structuralism Goal

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  • use introspection to identify basic element or structures of experience
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structuralism lasting figures

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  • emphasis on the importance of systemic observation to study conscious experience
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Functionalism leading figure

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William james

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Functionalism goal

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  • understanding the functions or adaptive purposes of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours
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Functionalism lasting influences

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  • evolution and adaptation has shaped human thought and behaviour. cognitive process exist for a reason
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Behaviourism leading figures

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BF Skinner & John B Watson

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Behaviourism goal

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  • to uncover the general principles of learning that explains all behaviours. Focus is primarily on observable behaviours
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Behaviourism lasting influences

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  • creating influential models of human and animal learning
  • strong focus on the need for objective research and data
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Cognitivism leading figures

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  • Jean Piagat & Ulric Neisser
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Cognitivism goal

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  • to examine the role of mental processes on behaviour
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cognitivism lasting influence

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  • significant impact on the study of many areas of psychology, such as language, problem solving, concept formation, intelligence, memory, and psychotherapy
  • has uncovered many basic processes that allow for comple human ability
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Psychoanalysis leading figure

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Sigmund Freud

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Psychoanalysis Goal

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  • to uncover the role of unconscious psychological processes and early experiences on behaviour/thought
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psychoanalysis lasting figure

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  • led to the understanding that many of our mental processes happen outside of our conscious awareness
  • pioneered non-physical treatment for psychological disorders
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Counselling psychologist

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  • work with people experiencing temporary or relatively self-contained life problems, like marital conflicts, sexual difficulties, occupational stressors, or career uncertainty
  • work in councilling centres, hospitals, or private practice
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School psychologists

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  • work with teachers, parents, and children to remedy students behavioral, emotional, and learning difficulties
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Developmental psychologists

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  • study how and why people change over time
  • conduct research on infants, children, and sometimes adults and elderly peoples emotional, physiological, and cognitive process and how these change with age
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experiemental phychlogists

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  • use research methods to study memory, language, thinking, and social behavious of humans
  • work primarily in research settings
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Biological Psychologists

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  • examine the physiological bases of behaviour in animals and humans
    – most work in research settings
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Forensic Psychologist

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  • work in prisons, jails, and other settings to asses and diagnose inmates and assist with their rehabilitation and treatment
  • others conduct research on eyewitness testimony or jury decision making
  • typically hold degrees in clinical or counselling psychology
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Industrial Organizational psychologists

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  • work in companies and businesses to help select productive employees, evaluate performances, and examine the effects of diffrent working or living conditions on peoples behaviours
  • design equipment to maximize employee performance and minimize accidents
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Nature-Nurture

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  • are behaviours mostly due to our genes (nature) or our environment (nurture)
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Free will vs. determinism

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  • to what extent are our behaviour freely selected (free will) rather than caused factors outside our control (determinism)
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Application of psychological research examples

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  • changing the color of fire trucks
  • the addition of third brake light in the middle of the rear windshield of vehicles
  • effective commercial messages
  • sequential line-ups of suspects for crimes
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Naive realism

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  • we see the world precisely how it is
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do opposites attract

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  • no
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ad hoc immunization theory

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  • escape hatch or loophole that defenders of theory use to protect it from falsification
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Fasification

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  • capiable of being disproved
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Patternicity

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  • tendancy to see patterns in meaningless data
    EXAMPLE: seeing animal shapes in clouds, face on mars
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terror management theory

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  • awarness of own inevitable dealth leaves us with an underlying sense of terror
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mortality science

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  • extent to which thoughts of dealth are foremost in our minds
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scientific scepticism

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  • approach of evaluating all claims with an open mind by insisting on persuasive evidence before excepting it
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critical thinking

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  • set of skills for evaluating all claims with an open minded and carful fashion
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levels on analysis

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  • rungs on a ladder
  • lower levels closely tied to biological influences
  • higher levels tied to social influences
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how to evaluate media

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  • peer reviewed
  • refrences
  • controlled scientific studies
  • extreme claims
  • was it recently updated
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applied research

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  • research examining how we can use basic research to solve real world problems
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basic research

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  • research examining how the mind works

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