General Psychology - Midterm: JCJC, Stephanie Green
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General Psychology
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General Psychology
General Psychology - Midterm: JCJC,
Stephanie Green
Introspection - answermethod by which trained observers carefully reflect and report on their mental
experiences
pseudoscience - answerlacks the safeguards against confirmation bias and belief perseverance that
characterize science
5 types o...
5 types of theories: - answer✔Behavioral, psychoanalytical, humanistic, cognitive, and biological
psychoanalytical theory - answer✔Freud's; behavior influenced by childhood thoughts, repressed
desires
Behavioral theory - answer✔Watson & Skinner; behavior by reward
Humanistic theory - answer✔Carl Rogers; free will
Cognitive theory - answer✔mental process determines behavior
biological theory - answer✔dna influences our personality and behavior
Placebo effect - answer✔the phenomenon in which the expectations of the participants in a study can
influence their behavior
self-fulfilling prophecy - answer✔prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by
the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.
case study - answer✔descriptive research approach to obtain an in-depth analysis of a person, group, or
phenomenon
double-blind - answer✔when neither researchers nor participants are aware of who's in the
experimental or control group
placebo - answer✔improvement resulting from the mere expectation of improvement
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