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All your feelings and behaviors are connected to your brain.

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Biological perspective

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Focuses on observable behaviors that impair our lives and attempts to change them. We are the product of what we learn through conditioning. Puts feelings aside.

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Behavioral

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Developed by Abraham Maslow and Carl Roger’s. Focuses on positive growth. Therapists use active listening and unconditional positive regard. Believes everyone has good in them.

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Humanistic

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Focuses on how we think. How we see the world or respond to events. Attempts to change the way you think.

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Cognitive

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Fathered by sigmund Freud. Our behavior comes from unconscious drives and childhood issues. Focuses on the unconscious mind. In order to get better you must bring forward the true feelings you have in your unconscious.

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Psychodynamic

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Focuses on inherited traits that help us survive as a species. We act the way we do because we inherited those behaviors. Our behavior helped ensure our ancestor survival.

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Evolutionary

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Looks at the impact society, culture, ethnicity, race, and religion have on personality. Behaviors can change because of various subcultures.

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Socio-Cultural Perspective

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The science of behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

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What makes psychology a science?

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Findings result from a scientific approach and has scientifically derived evidence

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Does it work? When put to the test, can its predictions be confirmed?

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Curiosity

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What do you mean? How do you know?

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Skepticism

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Be willing to be supposed and follow new ideas

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Humility

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What are the 3 aspects of a scientific attitude?

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Curiosity
Skepticism
Humility

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Hindsight bias

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The I knew it all along phenomenon

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Overconfidence

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We think we know more then we actually do

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Perceiving order in Random events

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We tend to make patterns that don’t actually exist

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A process where you self-correct in order to evaluate ideas through observation and analysis

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Scientific Method

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Falsifiable

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How strong the hypothesis is Can the hypothesis be proven wrong?

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Operational definition

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Statement that explains how study is conducted

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Studying an individual or group in hopes it will reveal something applicable to everyone
Explains

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Case study

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Recording info in an natural environment without manipulating or controlling the situation
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Naturalistic observation

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The way surveys are worded affects the result

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Wording effects

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A bias when people respond the way they think the researcher wants them to

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Social desirability

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Report behavior inaccurately

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Self report bias

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Unrepresenting in a case sampling so it’s not accurate. A few people from the school instead of all
Sampling bias
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Random sample vs random assignment
Random sample takes from whole population whereas random assignment takes from that groups and splits into control and experimental
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Statistical index of relationship between two things (-1.00 to 1.00)
Correlation coefficient
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On a scatterplot Little scatter=
High correlation
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Correlation doesn’t =
Causation
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When you think there’s a relationship but there really isn’t
Illusory correlation
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Tendency for extreme events to fall back to the average
Regression toward the mean
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Both research participants and research staff don’t know who got the treatment or a placebo
Double blind procedure
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Research method where one or more factors are manipulated to observe the effect
Experiment
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Thinking your getting treated and feeling like u are but ur actually not
Placebo effect
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Independent variable
Thing that is manipulated After if
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Confounding variable
Factor besides the one being studied that might influence result
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Dependent variable
Outcome that may change when independent variable changes
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Did the experiment test what it was supposed to test
Validity
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Relies on in depth/narrative data
Qualitative
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Uses numerical data to represent degrees of variable
Quantitative
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Giving participant enough information info about a study so they can choose to participate or not
Informed consent
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Central tendency
Single score representing a set of scores
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What are the most important scientific values?
Honesty followed by curiosity and perseverance
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Post experimental explanation including any deceptions
Debriefing
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Bar graph with frequency distribution
Histogram
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How does statistics benefit us?
Helps us to see what the unaided eye might miss
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Numerical data that measures and describes characteristics
Descriptive statistics
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Median
Midpoint or 50th percentile
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Mean
Average
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Representation of scores that lack symmetry around average value
Skewed distribution
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What are the two measures of variation
Range and standard deviation
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Mode
Most frequently occurring score or scores
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Range
Difference between highest and lowest scores
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What does variation represent
How similar or diverse scores are
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Measure of how much scores vary around mean score
Standard deviation
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Symmetrical bell-shaped curve describing distribution of many types of data
Normal curve
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Draw a normal bell curve with percentage points and standard deviation
Nice
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Numerical data that allows one to generalize
Inferential statistics
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When is an observed difference significant?
When it doesn’t matter as much
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Statistical significance
How likely it is that a result occurred by chance
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Only ______ can prove causation because they can manipulate variables
Experiments
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What research method is used in Naturalistic observation, case study, and survey
observe and describe
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_______ helps us predict behavior through descriptive research we note that 2 variable have a relationship, now we can research if one variable might predict another.
correlation/predict
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Type of research method where manipulated variable to determine if one causes the other
experiment
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Which research method includes in control and experiment groups and random assignment
experiment
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Systematically manipulating a variable under controlled conditions and observing the results.
Controlled experiment
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a research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors
experiment
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The hypothesis predicts that the independent variable will _________ the dependent variable.
influence
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If is the ___________ or what is being manipulated (CAUSE)
independent
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Then is the ________ or what is being measures (EFFECT)
dependent
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an extra variable that wasn't accounted for that might influence the outcome of the study
confounding variable
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a detailed explanation of the experiment so that it can be replicated---adds validity
operational definition
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What is the difference between random sampling and random assignment
random sampling refers to randomly selected a group of people for the experiment whereas random assignment is putting those people into a control or experimental group
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how applicable or important it is to society if it's accurate
generalized
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The control group is for __________
comparison
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behavior changes simply due to the awareness of being observed
the hawthorne effect
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unintentionally treating groups differently in a study is an _______ bias
experimental
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subjects dont know which group they are in
single blind
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the subject and researcher dont know what group they're in
double blind
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When subjects believe the treatment is effective and experience positive results caused by expectations alone
placebo effect
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Highly controlled environments are part of ____________ experiments
laboratory
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Conducted in the world are done in ______ experiments
field
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The extent to which a test or experiment measures or predicts what it is supposed to
validity
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Uses Numerical data
quantitative
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uses narrative data
qualitative
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Participants get enough information about the research study so they can choose whether to participate or not
informed consent
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post experiment explanation, purpose, and any deception
debriefing
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Numerical data used to measure and describe the characteristics of a group
descriptive statistic
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a visual display used to organize and present information so it can be more easily interpreted
frequency distribution
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a bar graph depicting a frequency distribution
histogram
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What are mean median mode and range?
measures of central tendancy
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Mean
average
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mode 2 scores= 3 + =
most binomal multimodal
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median
middle
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range
subtract highest from lowest
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when their are outliers avoid the ____ and use the ______
mean median
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Mode is helpful with ___ data
nominal
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describes how much the scores are spread out
variability
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the average distance of any score from the mean
variance
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the square root of the variance
standard deviation
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curve shape will change depending on the size of the _______ ________
standard deviation
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tall and narrow= short and wider=
less variability more variability
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Represented by symmetric, bell shaped curve that describes distribution of many types of data
normal distribution
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the mean, median, and mode are at the ____ of the normal distribution
center
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one standard deviation
68%
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2 standard deviations
95%
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3 standard deviations
99.7
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draw the normal distribution thingy
34 13.5 2 0.1
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mnemic for the normal distribution
1 68 year old man threw a huge party for 2 95 year old ladies and all 3 danced like crazy as the radio station 99.7 was playing!!
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a representation of scores that lack symmetry around their average value can get skewed by outliers
skewed distribution
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draw a positive and negative skewed distribution
positive=whale facing left negative=whale facing right
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a statistical procedure for analyzing the results of multiple studies to reach an overall conclusion
meta-analysis
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the strength of the relationship between two variables. The larger the ____ ___ the more one variable can be explained by the other
effect size
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When is an observed difference reliable and significant?
it is a representative sample you have done more estimates rather than fewer statistical significance
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need to be bellow____ (p-value of ____) to be ______ ______
5% 0.5 statistically significant
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find the variance for 7 9 9 10 10 11 11 13
2.75 1. subtract from 10 (average) 2. square them 3. find their average
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what is the standard deviation of the data set with a variance of 2.75
square root of 2.75=1.65
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What are the 5 parts of maslow's hierarchy of needs
physiological safety love/belonging esteem self-actualization
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