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PSYCH 101 final JMU1. Formed by combining and : Answer-
philosophy and physiology
2. structuralism: Answer- how we do something/ how things work
3. reductionism: Answer- reducing things to their parts
4. functionalism: Answer- why something works as a whole/why is it
there/what does it do for us
5. Freud's contribution to functionalism: Answer- the concept of
unconscious
6. behaviorism: Answer- break behavior down to smallest part
7. Skinner: Answer- radical behaviorism
8. radical behaviorism: Answer- society determines peoples behavior so
teach people to be good citizens
9. Rogers and Maslow: Answer- humanism
10.humanism: Answer- people are unique
emphasis on personal growth and fulfilling
potential free will
11.cognitive psychology:
Answer- 1960s study of
,mental processes
how we process information and how it influences our behavior
12.evolutionary psychology: natural
selection DNA determines behavior
13.psychiatry: can give
medicine medical degree
14.clinical psychology: severe mental/emotional
issues basic counseling
15.counseling psychology (social work): basic
therapy not serious disorders
16.developmental psychology: womb to
tomb people change and are influenced
over time study of change and continuity
over time
17.social psychology: why do people do what
they do how are people influenced
used scientific methods to understand and explain how behavior
thoughts and feelings of individuals interact
, 18.population: complete group you want study to apply to
19.sample: everyone in the experiment that you're
studying conclusions made based on sample
represent the population
20.random: everyone in population has an even chance to be
in study goal is to generalize accurately
21.random assignment: equal chance to be put in groups
22.operational definitions of variables: different people will explain their
expe- rience differently leading to different results
23.validity: how well does procedure actually measure the variable
being studied
24.relibality: are the same results obtained with repeated
measurements
25.naturalistic observation: observing behavior in its natural
context allows for real life behavior
lacks control, participants might not react, observer bias
26.case study: intense observation of 1 person or a small
group allows for rich data
doesn't allow representativeness
27.surveys: efficient, quick and
cheap question bias and
truthfulness of answers
28.experiments: need at least 2 groups: experimental and
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