Intro to Psychology

Question 1

APA

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worlds largest professional organization of psychologists

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Psychology

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scientific study of mind behavior and mental processes

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Psychologist

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evaluates, diagnoses, treats, and studies behaviors and mental processes. Can’t prescribe drugs.

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Psychiatrist

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years of training in abnormal behavior. Can prescribe drugs.

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Wilhelm Wundt

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“founder” of psychology, focused on a conscious experience and came up with introspection.

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Edward Titchener

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student of Wundt, taught at Cornell University

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Structuralism

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1st school of psychology that focused on exploring consciousness and how simple components organize into complex experiences.

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William James

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Harvard teacher that came up with functionalism.

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Functionalism

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early school of psychology that focused mostly on mental adaptions to changing environments.

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Introspection

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self-examination where test subjects report on their own.

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John Watson

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psychologist who came up with behaviorism and the Little Albert experiment.

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Behaviorism

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school of psychology that focused on observable behavior due to conditioning.

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B.F Skinner

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behaviorist who used reinforcements and punishments to shape behavior primarily in rats and pigeons.

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Sigmund Freund

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came up with theories around unconscious and childhood experiences and came up with psychoanalysis.

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Psychoanalysis

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psychological theories that revolve around connections between unconscious mental processes and behaviors.

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Naturalistic observation

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research method where undetected observers record behaviors in natural settings.

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Case studies

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highly detailed description of a single person or group.

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Correlational studies

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examine how strongly 2 or more variables are related.

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Surveys

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questions designed to gather a lot of information about a group.

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Experimental studies

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studies that demonstrate how a change in 1 variable effects a change in another variable.

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Independent variable

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variable manipulated in an experiment

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Dependent variable

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what is measured or observed in an experiment

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Placebo

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a substance that has no effect

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Control group

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group that isn’t exposed to the independent variable.

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Phrenology

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the science that a person's character and abilities can be deduced from the shape and size of bumps on the head.