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Psychology
12th Grade
08/29/2011

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Wundt
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A Germany/ Austrian Psychologist, born in 1832 who happens to be the father of psychology.
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Introspectionist
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The person who given an introspective method of examining the phenomenon of the soul.
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Controlled Condition
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A standard that can't be compared with other condition in a experiment.
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Structuralism
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An analysis of human cognitive, behavior culture, and experience on relationship of contrast between conceptual elements.
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Participant
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Person involved in the experience willingly (Usually)
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Cognitive
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Human brain in process
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Mean
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the average result
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Empirical Research
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A way of gaining knowledge by means of direct observation or experience.
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Qualitative
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relating to, measuring, or measured by the quality of something rather than its quantity.
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Quantitative
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Is relating to measuring or measured by the numbers, and data
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Standard Deviation
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is a widely used measurement of variability or diversity used in statistics and probability theory.
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Mode
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The common/ repeated number
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Median
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The Middle Number
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Variable
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is a characteristic of an object (person, thing, etc.)
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Situation
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The way in which something is placed in relation to its surroundings
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Context - Stripping
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taking the context (real-life elements) away from the experiment, which will make the study become its pure form
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Value Free
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making or having no value judgments
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Manipulation
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Control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously.
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Independent Variable
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a variable (often denoted by x) whose variation does not depend on that of another.
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Dependent Variable
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A variable (often denoted by y) whose value depends on that of another.
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Cognitive
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Human brain working/ in-action.
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Behavior
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The way in which one acts or conducts oneself, esp. toward others.
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Emotion
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is the complex psychophysiological experience of an individual's state of mind as interacting with biochemical (internal) and environmental (external) influences.
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Sample
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In statistics, a sample is a subset of a population
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Participant
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A person who takes part in something
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Population
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A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same species and live in the same geographical area.
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Target Population
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A particular group of people that is identified as the intended recipient of an advertisement, product, or campaign. Also called target audience.
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Representation
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A person or thing that represents another or others.
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Correlation
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refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data.
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Bias
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is an inclination to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of (possibly equally valid) alternatives.
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Hypothesis
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is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon
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Polygraph
Definition
A lie detector
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Deception
Definition
Acts to propagate beliefs that are not true, or not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission)
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Gaze Aversion
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Gaze aversion is the act of looking away from the person one is speaking with, in order to clearly understand and conjure up an accurate response to the question or problem posed by the speaker.
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Coder
Definition
a system of words, letters, figures, or other symbols substituted for other words, letters, etc., esp. for the purposes of secrecy.
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Negligible Consequences
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refers to the quantities so small that they can be ignored (neglected) when studying the larger effect.
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Spontaneously
Definition
If you're the kind of person who acts first and thinks about it later.
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Cognitive Load
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Used in cognitive psychology to illustrate the load related to the executive control of working memory
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Behavioral Control
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refers to facts that show whether there is a right to direct or control how the worker does the work.
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Illustrator
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Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text.
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Self - Manipulation
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related to self-control, but more like self - tricking in many ways
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Speech disturbances
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a disruption or a pause during you sentence/ speech or the conversation
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Eye blink suppression
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the action of reducing eye blinking,
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Motivational Impairment Effect
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The harder people try to deceive other. The more likely they are to be caught.
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