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DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
EXPERIMENTATION
STATISTICAL REASONING
100
PHILOSOPYh AND BIOLOGY
What two established fields did psychology develop from?
100
CONSIDERS THE INFLUENCE OF BIOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL-CULTURE FACTORS
What is biopsychosocial approach?
100
A RESEARCH METHOD IN WHICH AN INVESTIGATOR MANIPULATES ONE OR MORE FACTORS TO OBSERVE THE EFFECT ON SOME BEHAVIOR OR MENTAL PROCESS
What is the definition of "experiment"?
100
The most frequently occurring score(s) in a distribution.
What is mode
200
EMOTIONAL RESPONSES TO CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES AND OUR UNCONSCIOUS THOUGHT PROCESS
What were the early focuses of psychology?
200
NATURAL SELECTION OF ADAPTIVE PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIORS GENETIC PREDISPOSTIONS BRAIN MECHANISMS
What are biological influences on behavior and mental processes?
200
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS CAUSED BY EXPECTATIONS ALONE; ANY EFFECT ON BEHAVIOR CAUSED BY ADMINISTRATION OF AN INERT SUBSTANCE OR CONDITION
What is the "placebo effect''?
200
A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.
What is standard deviation?
300
ANYTHING AN ORGANISM DOES- ANY ACTION WE CAN OBSERVE AND RECORD
Define behavior :
300
LEARNED FEARS AND OTHER LEANRED EXPECTATIONS EMOTIONAL RESPONSES COGNITIVE PROCESSING AND PERCEPTUAL INTERPRETATIONS
What are psychological influences on behavior and mental processes?
300
Experimental group is exposed to the treatment as the control group serves as a comparison for evaluation.
What is the difference between a control group and an experimental group?
300
Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
400
DECEMBER 1879, UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG, GERMANY
When and where was Psychology born?
400
PRESENCE OF OTHERS CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND FAMILY EXPECTATIONS PEER AND OTHER GROUP INFLUNCES
What are social-culture influences on behavior and mental processes?
400
A procedure where research participants and research staff are unaware if research participants received the actual drug or a placebo.
What is the double-blind procedure?
400
A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance.
What is a statistical significance?
500
THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR AND MENTAL PROCESSES
What is the focus of Psychology today?
500
EACH LEVEL PROVIDES A VALUABLE VANTAGE POINT
Why is the biopsychosocial approach important?