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Flashcards by Alexis Longaberger, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alexis Longaberger
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Behaviorial Perspective | Founders: Pavlov, Watson, Skinner Focus: observable behavior that can be measured |
| Humanistic Perspective | Founders: Rogers & Maslow Focus: self-esteem, free will |
| Psychoanalytic/Psychodyamic Perspective | Founders: Freud Focus: effect unconscious has on determining behavior & personality |
| Cognitive Perspective | Encodes, processes, and stores information (computer-like) |
| Biological Perspective | Genetics, Roles of the brain & Functions of nerve cells |
| Evolutionary Perspective | Founder: Darwin Focus: Natural Selection, Adaptions in behavior & mental processes |
| Experimental Method | Scientific procedure involving manipulation of variables to determine cause and effect |
| Independent Variable | Factor being manipulated |
| Dependent Variable | Factor that is affected by the independent |
| Experimental Group | Group exposed to independent |
| Control Group | Group exposed to all factors except independent |
| Confounding Variable | Extraneous variables that have an affect on experiment that are |
| Double Blind Study | Experiment where neither the researcher nor the the participants know who got and didnt get the experimental treatment |
| Case Study | In-depth researcher/observation of a single resserarch participant |
| Correlation Research | Researchers observe 2 or more variables to find the relationship between them (No Interference from researcher) |
| Correlation Coefficient | Scale from -1 to 1 that indicates the strength and direction of a correlation... the closer to -1 or +1 the stronger the correlation...- numbers mean the two variables correlate in different directions while + numbers correlate in the same direction |
| Mean | Average Score |
| Median | Middle Score |
| Mode | Score that reoccurs the most |
| Standard Deviation | Indicates the avg. difference between scores and the mean |
| Normal Distribution | bell-shaped curve that describes the spread of a characteristic throughout a population |
| Positively Skewed Distribution | Higher mean, more scores on low end |
| Negatively Skewed Distribution | Low Median, more scorres on high end |
| P-Value | a statistically significant difference that shows up less than 5% of the time |
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