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45 Cards in this Set
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Psychology
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Systematic study of behavior and experience
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Clinical Psychologists
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Individuals who try to help those who are worried, depressed, or troubled
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Determinism
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The assumption that everything has a cause, or determinant, in the observable world.
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Free Will
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The belief that behavior is caused by a person's independent decisions
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Mind-Body Problem
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The philosophical question of how experience relates to the brain
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Dualism
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The view that the mind is separate from the brain but somehow controls the brain and thus controls the whole body
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Monism
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The view that conscious experience is inseparable from the physical brain
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Developmental Psychologists
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Individuals who study how behavior changes with age. "from womb to tomb"
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Learning and Motivation
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This research field studies how behavior depends on the outcomes of past behaviors and current motivations.
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Cognition
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Refers to thought and knowledge
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Biopsychologist
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neuroscientist who tries to explain behavior in terms of biological factors, such as electrical and chemical activities in the nervous system.
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Evolutionary Psycologist
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Individual who tries to explain behavior in terms of the evolutionary history of the species.
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Social Psychologists
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Individuals who study how an individual influences other people and how the group influences an individual.
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Cross Cultural Psychology
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Compares the behavior of people in different cultures.
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Psychiatry
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a branch of medicine that deals with emotional disturbances
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Psychoanalysts
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Therapy providers who rely heavily on the theories and methods pioneered by Sigmund Frued
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Clinical Social Worker
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Silmilar to a Clinical Psychologist but with different training.*masters degree in social work
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Counseling Psychologist
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Helps people with educational, vocational, marriage, health related, and other decisions.
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Forensic Psychologist
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Provides advice and consultation to police, lawyers courts, or other parts of the criminal justice system.
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Industrial/Organizational Psychology
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The psychological study of people at work
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Ergonomist
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Attempts to facilitate the operation of machinery so that ordinary people can use it efficiently and safely.
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Introspect
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To look within yourself
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Structuralism
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An attempt to describe the structures that compose the mind, particularly sensations, feelings, and images.
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Functionalism
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Focus on what the Mind does rather than what it is
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Psychophysical
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The mathematical description of the relationship between the physical properties of a stimulus and its perceived properties
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Comparative Psychologists
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Specialists who compare different animal species
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Behaviorism
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A field of Psychology that concentrates on obervable, measurable behaviors and not on mental processes.
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Case Study
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Study conducted with a small group of people
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Naturalistic Observation
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Observe people without letting them know
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Independent Variable
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Manipulative variable
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Nominal
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Name only categories (Scales of Measurement)
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Ordinal
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Ordered categories like a race
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Interval
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Ordered categories with equal intervals like a race
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Ratio
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Ordered categories with equal intervals and a true zero like Reaction time.
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Coolidge Effect
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Refers to the increased sexual potency of Males when Novel females are introduced
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Factors affecting conformity
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group size, group cohesiveness, genders, social status, culture, appearance of unamity.
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Milgram Experiment
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Experiment to see if individuals would obey an experimenter and administer the highest level of shock to someone who answered a question incorrectly.
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Prominent Response
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Prescence of others produces arousal
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Social Loafing
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Consequences of not recording individual contributions
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Group Polarization
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when exposed to others with similar beliefs
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Stereotypes
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A generalized belief or expectation regardin a group of people.
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Proximity
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Physical closeness to someone
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Factors that determine if we like someone
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Proximity, physical attractiveness, similarity, reciprocity
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Foot in Door request
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Small request followed by larger one
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Door in Face request
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Huge request first, then smaller request
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