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Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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Psychology
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1. describing - whats happening?
2. explain - whys it happening?
3. predict - will it happen again?
4. control - How to change the behavior
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Goals of psychology
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Theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud
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Psychoanalysis
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Science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only
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Behaviorism
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Humanists held the view that people have free will, the freedom to choose their own destiny
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Humanistic perspective
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Focus on the relationship between social behavior and culture
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Social-cultural perspective
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Focus on the biological bases of universal mental characteristics that humans share
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Evolutionary perspective
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System of gathering data so that bias and error in measurement are reduced.
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Scientific method
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1. Percieve question
2. form hypothesis
3. test hypothesis
4. draw conclusions
5. report results so that others can try to replicate
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Steps of scientific method
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Watching animals/humans behave in their normal environment
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Naturalistic observation
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Watching animals/humans behave in a lab setting
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Lab observation
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Study of one individual in great detail
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Case study
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Randomly selected sample of subjects from a larger population of subjects
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Representative samples
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A measure of the relationship between two variables.
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Correlations
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Variables go upward on graph
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Positive correlations
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