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What are the four "goals" of psychology?
-Describe
-Explain
-Predict
-Control
What is the debate that asks if we are born with certain traits or if we acquire traits through experience and our environment?
Nature v.s Nurture debate
What is knowledge that comes from experience?
empiricism
What is a general explanation of a set of observations or facts?
Theory
What is used to study a person in depth over an extended period of time?
Case Study
What is a sample in which everyone has the same and equal chance of being selected?
Random Sample
What is a sample that includes only important subgroups that are proportional to the larger population?
Representative Sample
What are some examples of the advantages of surveys?
-cost effective
-completed quickly
-can track attitudes/behavior over time
What are some examples of the disadvantages of surveys?
-wording can be bias
-people may give false info
-sample issues
Which number has a stronger correlation, -.89 or .35?
-.89
The number ______ from 0 has a higher correlation?
farthest
Two factors that rise/fall together is?
positive correlation
If one factor goes up and another factor goes down then what type of correlation is it?
negative
Are laboratory observations real or artificial?
artificial
What is the thing the researcher will change/manipulate to see if it has any effect?
Independent Variable
What is the thing the researcher will measure at the end of the experiment?
Dependent Variable
What group is exposed to the independent variable(treatment)?
Experimental group
What group is not exposed to the independent variable?
Control group
What is used when the experimenter/participants do not know who is in the experimental or control groups?
Double blind technique
Which perspective talks about your childhood?
Psychodynamic
Which perspective talks about your enviroment?
Behavioral
Which perspective talks about how you think about things or your mental process?
Cognitive
Which perspective talks about brains, neurons, and heredity?
Bio-psychological
Which perspective talks about free will and choosing your own destiny?
Humanistic
Which perspective talks about adapting for survival?
Evolutionary
Which perspective talks about people/groups and culture?
Sociocultural
How many perspectives do most psychologists have?
one
How many different perspectives are there?
7
What is introspection?
looking withing yourself
Who is the father of psychology?
Wundt
Who brought psychology into the united states?
Tichener
Who wrote the "principals of psychology"?
William James
Who is related to behaviorism?
Watson
Who said the whole is greater than the sum of its parts?
Gestalt
What is the phi phenomenon?
when something appears to be in motion that isn't
What is the main focus of psychoanalysis?
the unconscious
Who is related to psychoanalysis?
Freud
What does cognitive mean?
thinking
Who is related to the humanistic approach?
Maslow
Who is related to the hierarchy of needs?
Maslow
Who was Francis Cecil Sumner?
-Self-educated by parents/had no HS diploma
-father of African-American psychology
-first African-american to earn a Ph.d in psychology
-had famous student kenneth Clark
-Clark's research against prejudice and segregation was used in Brown v. Board of Ed. case
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study guide Sect 1
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The Journey begins-Into to Psy.
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