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Psychology
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Is the scientific study of human and animal behavior.
Psychology
Is a type of reflection that involves asking whether a particular belief can be supported by
scientific theory and observation.
Critical Thinking
Father of Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
His book (principles of Psychology)
William James
Said that behavior should be the subject matter of Psychology. Argued that scientific data
should be objective, over, and observable.
John B. Watson
the tendency to consider a personal description accurate if it is stated in very general
terms.
Barnum Effect
(1894) awarded PHD in psychology.
Margaret Washburn
(1920) first African American man to earn a doctoral degree in Psychology.
Francis Cecil Sumner
is a group of statements, the purpose of which is to explain a group of events.
Theory
Specifies the procedures used to measure a concept or manipulate a variable.
Operational Definition
most basic tool in science
Naturalistic Observation
are involved with determining the degree of relationship.
Correlation Studies
Most Powerful research tool. Are concerned with Cause and Effect.
Experiments
Index of how much a typical score differs from the mean of a group of scores.
Standard Deviation
refers to results which cannot be reasonably attributed to change alone.
Significant results
suggested that mental ability might be genetically determined and measured empirically.
Sir Francis Galton