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Ap Psychology Worksheet

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1) Nativism – Nativism claims knowledge is innate in human beings waiting to be nurtured. Empiricism - Empiricism asserted that knowledge is through human sensory experience gained. 2) empiricism is a theory of knowledge which emphasizes those aspects of scientific knowledge that are closely related to experience, especially as formed through deliberate experimental arrangements. 3) Psychologists study human behavior by observing, interpreting, and recording how people and other animals relate to one another and the environment. 4) Lightner Witmer 5) 6) Valentin 7) Localization is ability to tell what part of the body is affected by any sensation. 8) dependent variable depends on the effect of the independent variable and is the variable …show more content…

11) Goal of clinical psychology diagnose, assess and treat a variety mental disorders. 12) Descriptive designs -the current state of affairs, Provides a relatively complete picture, does not assess relationships among variables Experimental - impact on experimental manipulations on a dependent variable, Allows drawing of conclusions, Cannot experimentally manipulate many important variables 13) Reliability is the repeatability of findings Validity is the credibility or believability of the research. 14) Standard deviations are scores around the mean of a distribution. 15) Mode: the most frequently-occurring score Mean: the calculated average of all the scores Range - how widely the data is spread out as a whole. 16) O.8% 17) The p-value is the probability, calculated assuming the null hypothesis to be true. 18) H 19) Informed consent is a legal procedure to ensure that a patient, client and research participants are aware of all the potential risks and costs involved in a treatment or procedure. 20) Conflict of interest -individual or organization is involved in multiple interests, one of which could possibly corrupt their motivation to act appropriately for the other

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