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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/27/2010

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proximal
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immediate
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distal
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early experience, genetic, evolutionary, still effects behavior now
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functions
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outcomes or results
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proximal cause of eating
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hungry
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distal cause of eating
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structure of your teeth
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function of eating
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gives you energy
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function of eating
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gives you energy
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function of eating
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gives you energy
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function of eating
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gives you energy
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function of eating
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gives you energy
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function of eating
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gives you energy
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function of eating
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gives you energy
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clinicians help to...?
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control behavior
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enviornmental design helps us to?
Definition
operate more efficentally
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what are the four goals of psych?
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causes functions prediction and control
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ASA is more about?
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clinical
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APS
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more about experimental and research
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psychiatrist can>??
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prescribe meds
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psychometrics tests?
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personality, SATS
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Industrial Oranizational (IO) does what?
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helps with workplace enviornment, work related issues, and advertizing
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The Hawthorne Effect
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the tendency of subjects to be overcooperative and compliant with an experimenter, rather then behaving normally
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phthisic
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tall and thin bad tempered and angry
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apoplectic
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short and squat unemotional and sluggish
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physiological
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theory of mental illness
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endomorph
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fat, jovial, and social
example: santa clause
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ectomorph
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skinny, sensitive, thoughtful, nervous
Example: Woody Allen
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mesomorph
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athletic, enerjectic, direct manner
Example: rambo
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Socrates was the first?
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psychotherapist
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platos biological theory on personality
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spirit emotional drives, appetites
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Freud's biological theory on personality
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oral, anal, phallic, genital
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vitalism
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behavior is primarily a function of the soul
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continuity
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human vs. nonhuman not totally different
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mechanism
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behavior a function of physical laws as opposed to some inborn entity
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reflex action
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believed that reflexes were governed by things in the enviornment
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John Locke believed in...
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tabula rasa- blank slate
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phrenology
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the idea that a person could feel the head, look for bumps, the location of these bumps indicate certain talents.
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sir francis galton
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poineer of psychometrics
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pearson r
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correlational coefficient
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Herbert Spencer
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wrote principles of psychology
coined phrase survival of the fittest
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organism variability
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competition for natural resourrces with some organisms who are more adaptable then others
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How does specification occur?
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through correltaed variation
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pleiotropy
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the idea that a given gene can affect more than one phenotype
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Law of effect
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if it feels good and makes you happy youre likely to do again
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Behaviorism
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rejected mentalistic interpretations of behavior anf instead dealt with observable units, stimulus and response
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What is research?
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The process of discovering new knowledge by means of the scientific method
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applied research
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used to solve problems
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basic research
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done for the purpose of discovering new knowledge
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appropriate starting point
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observation and descripption across contexts
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ethologists
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animal behavioralists
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5 roles of naturalistic observation
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1. To study Nature for its own sake.
2. starting point for subsequent lab investiagtions.
3. Validate or add substance to previosuly obtained lab data
4.provide info on species variables for efficient lab study
5. use field as natural "lab" to test hypothesis
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sexual dimorphism
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males and females of species look very different
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cons of field research
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lack of control, small sample, predation
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pros of field research
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external validity, fewer artifacts
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context
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physical setting
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unobstrusive field observations
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inconspicuous: dont want subjects to know your there, blinds
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obtrusive field observations
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freely interacting not hiding
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semifree field observations
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enclosed of confined, islands, large zoos
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observations in captivity
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zoos very obvious barriers
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complete enviornmental control
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simulate field, labs
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human ethology
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evolutionary psych
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reliability
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two or more observers report seeing the same thing
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pilot studies
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small version of real experiment used to work out kinks
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situational IV
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physical enviornment
warm vs cold
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subject IV
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attribute of subject
10 vs 14
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organismic IV
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internal
brain or hormones
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internal validity
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measure what it intended and controlled extraneous variables
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