PSY 0010 Exam 1
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1. Psychology The scientific study of the mind and behavior
2. Mind Private events within a person, invisible thoughts and feelings
3. Behavior Public events done by a person, observable actions of humans and animals alike.
People tend to act based on how they feel is normal, what is socially allowed and
what they are used to.
4. Representation Representation in and accessibility to psychology allows for people to feel a sense
in Psychology of belonging, and has significant bearings on both public health and policy
5. WEIRD Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic
Perspective for people from these countries is different makes it so that you can't
get a full picture. In the real world, it means studies occasionally don't represent
humanity, just a part of it
6. Nativism (Na- The view that some knowledge is innate/inherent rather than acquired. Human
ture) beings are born with some basic knowledge of the world, usually based on
genetics.
Famous proponents include Plato and Immanuel Kant
7. Philosophical The view that all knowledge is acquired through experiences one has, every
Empiricism newborn is a tabula rasa, or a blank slate who can be molded. Knowledge is
gained by interacting and learning from things, and is not inherent
Famous proponents include Aristotle and John Locke
8. Functionalism Study of how mental abilities allow people to adapt to their environments. An ap-
proach that emphasizes the adaptive significance of mental processes. Worrying
less about what mental life was like, and more about what it was for. William James!
9. Structuralism
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An approach to psychology that attempts to isolate and analyze the mind's basic
elements by breaking it down into its basic components. Wilhelm Wundt!
10. Introspection The analysis of subjective experience by trained observers, typically used by
structuralists, studying consciousness.
There is no way to tell if a person's description was accurate, and no way to
tell if their experience was the same/different from someone else's, making
structuralism inaccurate.
11. William James First to take a *scientific* approach to study psychology. Considered the father of
American psychology.
Functionalist. Focused on how the mind functions with a wider variety of partic-
ipants. James was a biased researcher, but used participants and science to get
ideas
12. Wilhelm Wundt Taught the world's first course in "experimental" psychology, published the
world's first psychology textbook, and opened the world's first psychology lab-
oratory, father of psychology.
Structuralist.
13. 'One-Liner' in Re- A one sentence description of the study, its results, and its benefits. Especially
search helps coalesce a study into one study.
14. Limitations of the Just the mean's reporting fails to consider outliers and the spread of data, so
Mean standard deviation, sample size, and range also help understand the data
15. Scientific Method Procedure for using empirical evidence to establish facts, using observation to
create theory whenever questions arise.
16. Theory Explanations of natural phenomena, an explanation of how something in the
natural world works and why it works that way
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17. Hypothesis A falsifiable prediction made by a theory, "should" statements are technically
known as a hypothesis.
For example, someone can theorize that bats listen for echoes to navigate. If bats
really do navigate this way, then deaf bats should not be able to navigate very well
(hypothesis).
18. Subjective Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.
19. Objective Considering and representing facts, not feeling or emotion
20. Operational Defi- Precise procedure where a variable is defined and measured, a specific definition
nition of a study's factor and how it is meant to be measured
21. Measure A device that can detect the condition to which an operational definition refers
22. Validity The degree to which the operational definition adequately describes the impor-
tant features of the phenomenon being studied. How well does the measure
actually gather the correct information.
23. Reliability A detector's ability to detect the absence of differences or changes in the mag-
nitude of a property (consistency). Tendency for a measure to produce the same
measurement whenever used to measure the same thing
24. Power The ability of a measure to detect the concrete conditions in the operational
definition. A detector's ability to detect the presence of differences or changes
in the magnitude of a property, the study's significance.
You have less power in studies if you do not have a big sample size
25. Dependent Vari- Variable being measured, is acted upon by the independent variable (effect,
able y-axis, measured)
26.
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1. Psychology The scientific study of the mind and behavior
2. Mind Private events within a person, invisible thoughts and feelings
3. Behavior Public events done by a person, observable actions of humans and animals alike.
People tend to act based on how they feel is normal, what is socially allowed and
what they are used to.
4. Representation Representation in and accessibility to psychology allows for people to feel a sense
in Psychology of belonging, and has significant bearings on both public health and policy
5. WEIRD Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic
Perspective for people from these countries is different makes it so that you can't
get a full picture. In the real world, it means studies occasionally don't represent
humanity, just a part of it
6. Nativism (Na- The view that some knowledge is innate/inherent rather than acquired. Human
ture) beings are born with some basic knowledge of the world, usually based on
genetics.
Famous proponents include Plato and Immanuel Kant
7. Philosophical The view that all knowledge is acquired through experiences one has, every
Empiricism newborn is a tabula rasa, or a blank slate who can be molded. Knowledge is
gained by interacting and learning from things, and is not inherent
Famous proponents include Aristotle and John Locke
8. Functionalism Study of how mental abilities allow people to adapt to their environments. An ap-
proach that emphasizes the adaptive significance of mental processes. Worrying
less about what mental life was like, and more about what it was for. William James!
9. Structuralism
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An approach to psychology that attempts to isolate and analyze the mind's basic
elements by breaking it down into its basic components. Wilhelm Wundt!
10. Introspection The analysis of subjective experience by trained observers, typically used by
structuralists, studying consciousness.
There is no way to tell if a person's description was accurate, and no way to
tell if their experience was the same/different from someone else's, making
structuralism inaccurate.
11. William James First to take a *scientific* approach to study psychology. Considered the father of
American psychology.
Functionalist. Focused on how the mind functions with a wider variety of partic-
ipants. James was a biased researcher, but used participants and science to get
ideas
12. Wilhelm Wundt Taught the world's first course in "experimental" psychology, published the
world's first psychology textbook, and opened the world's first psychology lab-
oratory, father of psychology.
Structuralist.
13. 'One-Liner' in Re- A one sentence description of the study, its results, and its benefits. Especially
search helps coalesce a study into one study.
14. Limitations of the Just the mean's reporting fails to consider outliers and the spread of data, so
Mean standard deviation, sample size, and range also help understand the data
15. Scientific Method Procedure for using empirical evidence to establish facts, using observation to
create theory whenever questions arise.
16. Theory Explanations of natural phenomena, an explanation of how something in the
natural world works and why it works that way
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17. Hypothesis A falsifiable prediction made by a theory, "should" statements are technically
known as a hypothesis.
For example, someone can theorize that bats listen for echoes to navigate. If bats
really do navigate this way, then deaf bats should not be able to navigate very well
(hypothesis).
18. Subjective Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.
19. Objective Considering and representing facts, not feeling or emotion
20. Operational Defi- Precise procedure where a variable is defined and measured, a specific definition
nition of a study's factor and how it is meant to be measured
21. Measure A device that can detect the condition to which an operational definition refers
22. Validity The degree to which the operational definition adequately describes the impor-
tant features of the phenomenon being studied. How well does the measure
actually gather the correct information.
23. Reliability A detector's ability to detect the absence of differences or changes in the mag-
nitude of a property (consistency). Tendency for a measure to produce the same
measurement whenever used to measure the same thing
24. Power The ability of a measure to detect the concrete conditions in the operational
definition. A detector's ability to detect the presence of differences or changes
in the magnitude of a property, the study's significance.
You have less power in studies if you do not have a big sample size
25. Dependent Vari- Variable being measured, is acted upon by the independent variable (effect,
able y-axis, measured)
26.
