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Founder of psychoanalysis and emphasizes the importance of the unconscious mind
Who is Sigmund Freud
The variable is the factor that is manipulated in the expirement
What is the Independent Variable
The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes
What is Behaviorism
How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences
What is Neuroscience
The postexperimental explanation of a study, including its purposes and any deceptions to its persecutions
What is Debriefing
Founded behaviorism and believed that psychology should primarily be scientific observable behavior
Who is John B Watson
The variable that may change when the independent variable is manipulated
What is the Dependent Variable
A view on personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth
What is Humanism
How the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of genes
What is Evolutionary
Attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
Using classical conditioning, this person managed to get dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell
Who is Ivan Pavlov
The factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect
What is the Confounding Variable
An early school of thought promoted by James and influenced by Darwin explored how mental and behavioral processes function and how they enable the organism to adapt, survive and flourish
What is Functionalism
How we encode, process, store and retrieve information
What is Cognitive
Known as "the father of experimental psychology" and founder of the first psychology laboratory
Who is William Wundt
The first woman to ever receive a psychology Ph.D. and synthesized animal behavior research in The Animal Mind
Who is Margaret Washburn
A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together and thus of how either factor predicts the other
What is correlation
An early school of thought that used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind
What is Structuralism
How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures
What is Social-Cultural
Was the first to teach a psychology course in the US and is known for contributing to functionalism
Who is William James
The first woman to become president of the American Psychological Association and introduce the field of self psychology
Mary Calkin
An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis
What is Biopsychosocial Approach
How our genes and our environment influence our individual differences
What is Behavioral Genetics
The disciplined concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong
What is Ethics