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"It is the study of behavior and experience."
It examines behavior and the reasons/ uses of it. |
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| It is an academic discipline; it is an art. |
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| What is the symbol for Psych? |
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| I + ~ is the sign. An "I" with a squiggly mark (~) through it. |
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1. It is under the surface.
2. It is subconscious.
3. When these repressed feelings are released it helps, the one holding those feelings, gain insight to oneself.
4. It originates with Sigmund Freud.
5. It emphasized childhood experiences.
6. It done not face to face.
7. Believes that the 1st emotion to pop up shows what kind of normal relationship you have with those in your life.
Approach...
1. believe that omition leads to showing the/or is a sign of anxiety. |
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Memorize Psalm 139:14. What is it?
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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well. |
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| What is Psychodynamic Therapy? |
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1. Found its origin in Freud's Psychoanalysis therapy.
2. Is done face to face.
Uses introspection.
3. They look into the relationships a patient has across the board.
4. Evaluate the actions of people to interpret the heart of people. |
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focusing on inner sensations, images, and feelings.
Wundt and James used thid. |
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| What is the 1920s definition of Psych? |
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| "the science of mental life." |
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What is Hindsight Bias?
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1. the tendency after an outcome to believe that we would have known the outcome all along.
2. often when something happens it makes the outcome seem unavoidable or simply common sense. |
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1. should be an objective science.
2. studies behavior WITHOUT reference to the mental process.
(most psychologist agree with #1 but not #2.) |
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| What did B.F. Skinner re define psych as? |
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| "the science study of observable behavior." he was a behaviorist. |
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a historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and an individual's potential for personal growth.
- it rebelled against Fred and behaviorism.
-emphasized the importance of current environmental affects rather than childhood memories. |
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| the study of the brain activity linked with cognitive perception, thinking, and memory. |
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| what is the nature-nurture issue? |
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| it is the controversy over the relative contributions that GENES (nature) and EXPERIENCE (nurture) to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Psychologists today see both being at work. |
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| What is the Levels of Analysis? |
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| the differing complementary views from 1. biological to 2. psychological to 3. social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon. |
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| What's the Biopsychosocial approach? |
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| this is a integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis. |
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How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences.
study what part of the brain triggers redness in the face when a person is angry. |
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How the natural selection traits promoted the survival genes.
look to see how angry produced character traits in epeople that kept them alive and surviving in the past history. |
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how much our genes and environments influence our individual differences.
study how a person's herdity or past family history/ genetics play into why that person responded in angry to a given situation. |
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how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts.
would look to see what underlying cause produced the anger. subconcious anger. |
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how we learn observable responses.
would study what kind of behavior or outside forces would cause a person to respond in anger. |
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How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
study how our reception and interpretation of something then causes our anger to either arrise or fade away. |
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how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures.
this approach would study how expressions of anger are different in different cultures. |
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| pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge. |
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| scientific study that aims to solve practical problems. |
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| a branch of psych that assits people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well-being. |
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| a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders. |
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| a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (ex. drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy. |
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| What is critical thinking? |
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| thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assess conclusions. |
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it takes observations and organizes them, analyizes them and makes a prediciton form them.
an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behavior. |
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a testable prediction, often implied by theory.
theory "low self-esteem causes depression" to hyothesize is to test that theory. to see if it is true. |
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| What is an Operational Definition? |
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a statement of procedures(operations)used to define research variables. Ex. Human intelligence may be operationally defined as "what an intelligence test measures."
carefully worded desciptions that properly descibe the proceduresand concepts of the study...done so one can properly replicate the study if needed. |
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| repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other participation and circumstances. |
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| an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles. |
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| Good theories explain by... |
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1. organizinf and linking observed facts.
2. implying hypotheses that offer testable predictions and, sometimes, practical applications. |
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| What is a scientific method? |
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| A self-correcting process for answering questions and observing nature's answers. |
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figuring out things and studying cases by asking questions. this is more surface and tends not to be able to go deep. A Case study goes much deeper.
a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random group of people. go less deep. |
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| Population? ex. represent total student *population* |
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all the cases (small groups) in a large group being studied from which samples may be drawn.
* does not refer to a nation's enire country. |
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| a sample that fairly represents a population, because each member as a fair chance of inclusion. |
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| Naturalistic observation? (in class definition) and form the book. |
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1. learning to observing things through experiencing life. Learn more after 40 years than after 14.
2. observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation. |
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the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other. -- correlation coefficient (mathematical expression of a relationship) -1 to +1
syaing that one behavior relates to another ...this is saying that it correlates or is a correlation. |
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| the perception of a relationship where none exists. |
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| Correlation does not mean causation why? |
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because there's a third factor that is left our.
the length of a marriage correlates positively with hair loss in men...but marriage does not cause men to loose their hair...there is a third part that connects the two. |
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| a research method in which and investigator manipulates one or more factors (independent variables) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process (dependent variables). By random assignment of participants, the experimenter aims to control other relevant factors. |
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| assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between between those assigned to different groups. |
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| in an experiment the group that is exposed to the treatment, that is, to one version of independent variable. |
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| in an experiment, the group that is NOT exposed to the treatment; contrasts with the experimental group and serves as a comparison for evaluating the effect of treatment. |
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and experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant (blind) about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo.
- Commonly use din drug-evaluation studies. |
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| Placebo Effect? (pluh-SEE-bo) Latin- "I shall please." |
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experimental results caused by expectations alone; any affect on behavior caused by administration of an inert substance or condition, which the recipient assumes is an active agent.
results created by the patient believing that the treatment will work or simply in seeing the ethusiasim for the treatment. |
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the experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied.
the variable that is being studied. Changing it can change the dependent variable. |
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| the outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable. |
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| the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. |
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| a study method incorporating five steps: Survey, Questions, Read, Rehearse, Review. |
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| What are conditions of worth? |
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| things that we find contingent to find our worth in. the thought will probably start out as ...I will be important IF.... |
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