Unit 0

Question 1

Psychology

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The science of behvaioral mental processes

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Introspection

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To look within

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Perception

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How we organize and interept sensory infomation

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Psychodynamics

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School of psychology that believes ones behavior/personality is a result of interactions of the individual outside of their conscious awareness

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Exisstenail Psychology

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Who am I? How we exist, self-concept

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Cognitive psychology

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study of mental processes in the broadest sense

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Biological psychology

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Literal study of the parts of the brains, nervous system, endocrine system

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Cognitive neuroscience

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the interdiscpinilary study of Brain activity linked with cognition

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Self-acultaization

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full potential- observing all facets of life that can give us info of what we are capable of

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Behavioral genetics

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field of psych that explores how particular behaviors and enviormental facots may be attributed to specific, genetically based psychological characterstics

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Evolutionary psychology

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focuses on the origin of the human mind and behavior

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Socio-cultural psychology

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school of psychology that emphasizes how society and culture can shape ones behaviors and thought processes

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Biopsychological approach

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Model that considers the complex interactions between biological psychological, and social factors

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Developmental psycholgocy

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focuses on conducting research on age-related behvaioral changes, and applying scientific knowledge ro educational, child care, policy and related settings

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Personality psychology

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focuses on studying how peoples thoughts, feelimgs, and behaviors differ from one another and how they work together to make a person unique

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Social Psychology

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focuses on interation with others, studies how our beliefs, feelings and behaviors are affected by and influence others

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Industrial/org. psychology

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focuses on the relationship of between people and their working enviorments, develops ways to increase productivity, improve personnel selection or promote job satisfcation

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Human factors psychology

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focuses on working with designers and engineers to tailor appliances, machines and work settings to our natural perceptions and indications

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Counseling psychology

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focuses on helping people adjust to life transitions or make lifestyle changes, although similar to clinical psychologyost, they help people with adjustment problems rather than severe psychotherapy

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Psychiatry

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focuses on treatment via medical doctors liscnesed to prescribe drugs, and otherwise treat physical causes of psychological disorders

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Positive psychology

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focuses on the scientific study of human flourishing, with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive

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Community psycholgy

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focuses on moving beyond focusing on specific individuals or families and deal with broad problems of mental health in community settings

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Basic research

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Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base

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Applied research

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scientific study that aims to solve practical problems

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Confirmation bias

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a tendency to search for info that supports your preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence

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False consceous effect

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the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors

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hindsight bias

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the tendency to believe after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it

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P.O.R.E

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perceiving order in random events , a tendency to see patterns in events that are completely random

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Meta-analysis

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set of statstical techniques for combining data from independent studies to produce a single estimate of effect, very objective and accurate

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Naturalistic observation

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involves the systematic study of behvaior in natural settings rather than a laboratory, participants cannot know they are being watched

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Case studies

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oldest form of descriptive research, focuses on a single person or group over a long period of time, participants can know they are being watched

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Inductive reasoning

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process of reasoning that moves from specific observations to broader generalizations

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Atypical case studies

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cannot be generalized to overall human population

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Correational research

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type of research technique based on the naturally occurring relationships between two or more variables, involves the use of scatterplots

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Experimental research

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a research technique in which an investigator deliberately manipulates selected events or circumstances and then measures the effects of those manipulations or subequent behavior

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Double blind experiemtn

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when the experimenter and the subjects both do not know anything about the expeirment

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Placebo effect

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feeling as if in the experimental group while being in the control group

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Hawthorne effect

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when subjects of an experimental study change or improve their behavior because it is being evaluated or studied

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Descriptive statistics

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numerical data used to measure and describe characteristics of groups

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standard deviation

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a computed measure of how much scores can vary around the mean score

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Normal curve

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a normal distribution

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Stastical signifigance

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how likely it is than an obtained result occured by chance or if it truly represented the overall population

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P-value

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a stastical meausre used to determine the likelhood than an observed outcome is the result of chance

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Type 1 data error

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falsey concluding your data as statistically signifigant

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type 2 data erorr

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falsey concluding your data as not statistically significant