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Psychology Test 1
Chapters 1,2, and 4
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
09/17/2012

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Perspective that attributes behavior to biological events occurring in the body?
Definition
Biopsychosocial Perspective
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Focuses on biological bases for universal mental characteristics that all humans share
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Evolutionary Perspective
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A professional with an academic degree and specialized training in one or more areas of psychology
Definition
Psychologist
Term
A medical doctor who has specialized in the disagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders
Definition
Psychiatrist
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A social worker with some training in therapy methods who focuses on the environmental conditions that can have an impact on mental disorders (poverty, stress, etc.)
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Psychiatric social worker
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When people believe they could have predicted the very outcome, after learning the outcome of an event
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Hindsight Bias
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What does not accept arguments and conclusions blindly?
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Critical thinking
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System of gathering data so that bias and error in measurement are reduced
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Scientific Method
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Tentative explanation of a phenomenon based on observations
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Hypothesis
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Detailed study of one subject
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Case Study
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Asks standardized questions of people that represents a sample of the population of interest
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Survey
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Variables related in the same direction
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Positive
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Variables related in opposite direction
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Negative
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Two variables not related to each other at all
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Zero
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