Unit 0

Question 1

what is psychology

Answer 1

cognition
emotion
perception
motivation
physical actions
emotional responses
social interactions
learned behaviors

Question 2

cognition

Answer 2

thinking, knowing, rememberong, percception, memory, problem solving and reasoning

Question 3

emotion

Answer 3

feelings that can influence behavior adn though patters

Question 4

motivation

Answer 4

needs that direct beharior towards achievign goals

Question 5

pyshical actions

Answer 5

movements and activites that can be seen and measured

Question 6

emotional responses

Answer 6

expression of feelings

Question 7

social interactions

Answer 7

how peeps interact with eachother, communication, cooperation and conflict

Question 8

learnd behaviors

Answer 8

actions aquired through experience or educaion, ie driving a car

Question 9

pyschoanalytic

Answer 9

unconcious mind, mottives, unresolved conflicts, past experiences
childhood, dreans

Question 10

evolutionary

Answer 10

aprroaches cognition, emotions and behavior through generations o f development
fight or flight, darwinism, adaptation, reproduction, explain fears

Question 11

sociocultural

Answer 11

ways a persons social experiences and society affects them
gender, society, development, culture, race, norms
holisitic, historical
doesnt accound fot the individual

Question 12

behavioral

Answer 12

learning how environment effects behavior
learning, reinforcement, response, conditioning

Question 13

cognitive

Answer 13

how info is aquired, processes, stored and utlilized
memory, processing, attention, thinking

Question 14

biological

Answer 14

looks at genetics, inheritance, family, hisotyr, nervous system, immune system, and anatomy
biology, genes, hormones

Question 15

humanisitc

Answer 15

loos at indiviuals as a whoe person through oversvation of behior
full potental, heiracchy of needs, positive

Question 16

hindsigh bias

Answer 16

tendency yo percieve past events as being more predictable thean they actually are

Question 17

overconficene

Answer 17

tendency to think we know more thany we actyally do

Question 18

generalizing

Answer 18

assuming the study we are doing can apply to a larger pop

Question 19

replication

Answer 19

repeating a study w/ different [ee[s tp psee if findings can be reproduced

Question 20

theory

Answer 20

general explanation of why smth occurs, supported nby evicence

Question 21

hypothesis

Answer 21

a specific, testable prediction bsed on a theory

Question 22

cases studies

Answer 22

examines on individual or group in depth

Question 23

descriptive research

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allows researchers to gather info that cant be pbtained through experiments
cant be generalized

Question 24

naturalistic observation

Answer 24

observing and recording behavior in a natural occuring situation
cant interat with enviro
cant determine cause and effect reationships

Question 25

survey

Answer 25

ask peeps to report their behavior or opitnions through questionares dishonesty cant determine cause and effect wording effects

Question 26

sample

Answer 26

group of peeps participating in the study

Question 27

representative sample

Answer 27

individuals that match the characteristics of the pop as a while

Question 28

random sample

Answer 28

individulas in which each member of the pop has the same chane of getting into the sample as any other memer

Question 29

correlation

Answer 29

relationship b/w 2 variables cant determine causation

Question 30

positive correlation

Answer 30

when 2 variables increase or decrease togehter

Question 31

negative correlation

Answer 31

when 1 increases, teh other decreases and vise vers

Question 32

correlation coefficient

Answer 32

value that expresses the degree of the relationship and its direction closer to -1 or 1 means a stronger relationship

Question 33

iperational definition

Answer 33

definign a concept by how you plan to measure it

Question 34

rules of ethics

Answer 34

informed consent ability to withdraw little harm confidentiality debriefing

Question 35

all participants must know the risks before participating

Answer 35

informed consent

Question 36

participatnts have the right to leave the study at any time for any reason

Answer 36

ability to withdraw

Question 37

subjects are protected from greater than usual harm/discomformt

Answer 37

little harm

Question 38

anonymous

Answer 38

confidentiality

Question 39

after study, reasearchers infrom participatns of its purpose and metods

Answer 39

debrieging