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Termini in questo insieme (12)

  • biological perspective

    Bodily events and changes associated witu action, feelings, and thoughts

  • learning perspective

    reward and punishments

  • cognitive perspective

    infuence of throughts, how do we make sence of it.

  • sociocultural perspective

    Influence of culture, family, peers, soical experiements.

  • basic psychology

    issues for the sake of knowledge rather than with a particular application in mind.

  • applied psychology

    issues intended to have direct practical signifocance or application

  • hypothesis

    A statment that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena, specifying relationships among events or varibles that can be tested,

  • operational definition

    A specification of precisely how to observe and measure a variable in a hypothesis

  • confirmation bias

    The tendency to look for or pay attention only to information that confirems one's belief

  • representative sample

    A group of indiciduals, selected from a population for study, that matches the population on important characterisitics.

  • correlational study

    a descritive study that looks for a consistent relationship between two or more phenomena

  • experiment

    A controlled test of a hypothesis in which the researcher manipulates one variable to dicover its effect on another.