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Chapter 2 - Research In Abnormal Psychology (Popular Kids in Research…
Chapter 2 - Research In Abnormal Psychology
Research is the systematic search for facts through careful observations and investigations
Difficulties in Research
Name some (6)
Measuring unconscious motives
Assessing private thoughts
Monitoring mood change
Calculating human potential
Consideration of culture, races, genders
Rights of research not violated
Popular Kids in Research
Wilhelm Wundt
Experimental methodology and applied research
J. McKeen Cattell
Methods in US used to assess individual differences in mental processing
Lightner Witmer
Founder of Clinical Psychology
William James
Author of the first psych text book
Pavlov
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John B Watson
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Classical conditioning & Operant conditioning
Nature of Experiments
Basically vocab words
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Hypothesis Testing
Hypothesis
Variables
Operational Definition
hypothetical construct made to measure a concept or term
Confound
irrelevant factor that distorts operationalization
Sampling & Generalization
How do you guard against confounds?
Control Group vs Treatment group
Double Blind design
Random Assignment
Scientific Method