Intro to Psych

study of mental processes and behavior

psychology

mental specialty - mental disorders

psychiatry

self-observation

introspection

educated guess

hypothesis

pursuit of knowledge

pure science

accomplish practical goals

applied science

study, learn, and retain knowledge

educational psych

informal rules

norms

memory aids

mnemonics

manner of dispensing rewards and punishments

shaping

statements tested whether true or false

empirical science

physician, conciousness is tip of iceberg - psychoanalysis

sigmund freud

greatness runs in families

francis galton

behaviorist - role of responses in learning

b.f. skinner

first president of apa

g. stanley hall

first psych textbook

william james

father of modern psych

william wundt

founder of behaviorism

john b watson

studying children’s thought processes

jean piaget

russian psychologist

ivan pavlov

diff types of psych

1. cognitive

2. behavioral

3. social-cultural

4. hummanistic

5. biological

6. psychodynamic

take in, process, and store info

cognitive psych

learn observable responses

behavioral psych

thinking and behavior changes in diff context or situations

social-cultural psych

healthy people strive to reach full potential

humanistic psych

physical structures and substances behind a given behavior

biological psych

unconcious drives and conflicts affect our behavior

psychodynamic psych

a method of learning abt the world thru critical thinking

scientific method

observe and record the world in naturally occurring situations

naturalistic observation

a person who studies limits of genetics

behavior geneticist

random errors

mutation

molecule containing genetic info

dna

threadlike structure made of dna

chromosome

the complete instructions for an organism

genome

biochemical units of heredity

genes

the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

gestalt psych

the extent to which genes and environment influence diffs

behavior genetics

psychologists apply psychology’s findings

applied research

evalutating evidence, examining assumptions, etc. - deep thinking

critical thinking

observe the effect of the risk factor

observation study

its statistically significant if its possibility of happening by chance isn’t greater than ____ %

5

tendency to notice evidence that supports hypothesis - manipulating for ur good

researcher bias

one person studied in depth

case study

exact procedures used to make a variable specific

operational definition

repeating a study to see if the results can be reliably produced

replication

to be reasonably sure that ur observations will apply to the group u are studying, you should select a ______ from the population and ensure the selection is ______.

sample, random