Final Study Guide

Question 0

Wilhelm Wundt

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First modern psychologist who established the first psychology laboratory

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Hypothesis

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An educated guess, part of the scientific method, and it has to be tested

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Sir Francis Galton

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Developed the personality test

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Humanistic Psychology

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Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

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Applied science

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Psychological principles used tho solve immediate problems

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Functionalist

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Psychologist who studies the function of the consciousness

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Legal system

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Forensic Psychology applies psychological principles to this system

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Basic science

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Pursuit of knowledge for its own sake

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Physiological state

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A person is motivated by this

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You might behave by your

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Cognitive or mental state

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Sigmund Freud

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Unconscious mind/motivations

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Rollo May

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Humanistic psychologist who described human behavior as active and creative, tried to figure out why humans and animals adapt go things/places

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Positive correlation

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Positive relationship between 2 variables (measure of degree) it’s opposite is negative correlation

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The cardinal rule of naturalistic observation

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Do not disturb or disrupt anything

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Self fulfilling prophecy

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When a researcher finds what they expect to find

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Mean

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The range of scores on a bell curve

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Bell curve

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Represents the correlation coefficient

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Descriptive statistics

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List and summarize data in a practical way

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Survey

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Method of collection information from someone (questionnaires)

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Sample

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Small group of a total population

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Statistics

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Math that allows researchers to organize and evaluate data

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Mean

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Average

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Longitudinal study

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Studying the same group of people for a long period of time

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Psychologists check if results are statistically significant or due to this

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Chance

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Central tendency

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Mean, median, mode

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Comparable worth

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Woman and men should get equal pay for the same jobs

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Eustress

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Positive stress

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Distress

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Negative stress

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General adaptation syndrome

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Alarm Resistance Exhaustion

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Immune system

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Prolonged stress weakens this

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Type B people are less vulnerable to this

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Stress

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Approach approach

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Two positive options/choices

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Approach avoidance

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One positive one negative options/choices

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Avoidance avoidance

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Two negative options/choices

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Fight or Flight

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Response to danger

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Stress

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Psychologists say your perception of an effect causes/is this

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Hardiness

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Active coping strategy Control Commitment Challenge

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Cognitive reaction

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Stress is so bad you can not concentrate

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Exhaustion

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When delusions come to help you cope with the situation

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Holistic organism

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Humans are this type of organism

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Uplift

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It is a positive thing (such as giving something to someone) to make them happy or bring joy to them(positive)

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Conversion reaction

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Transforming emotional difficulty into a loss of a physical body function

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Bipolar disorder stages

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Manic and depressive

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Phobia

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Absolute fear of something

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Tolerance

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Taking more of a drug to get the original effect, because their body has become tolerant of it

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Paranoid type schizophrenia

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Delusions and hallucinations

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Dissociative identity disorder

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One person with many individual personalities/persons

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Alcoholism

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#1 drug problem

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Deviance approach to mental illness

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When most people do the normal thing

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How most people deal with phobias

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They avoid them

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Panic attack

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Intense anxiety with no apparent cause

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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A disorder that comes from traumatizing events in the forms of dreams of flashbacks

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Compulsion

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Repetition of irrational action

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Disorganized schizophrenia

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Incoherent language, inappropriate actions, etc.

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Long term institutionalized schizophrenics might result in

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Burn out

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Withdrawl

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The symptoms that occur after the person discontinues that use of a drug to which he or she has become addicted

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Clinical psychology

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a psychologist who diagnoses and treats people with emotional disturbances

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Developmental psychology

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a psychologist who studies the emotional,cognitive,biological,personal, and social changes that occur as an individual matures

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Experimental group

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The group to which an independent variable is applied

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Control group

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The group that is treated in the same way as the experimental group except that the experimental treatment (the independent variable) is not applied.

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Self-actualization

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Living up to your full potential

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B.F. Skinner

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Theory that people will start doing or not doing things depending on consequences and rewards