Psychology 102 Final Exam Study Guide

Study guide for my college psychology 102 class

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attempts to explain psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection.
Evolutionary Psychology
the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Contemporary Psychology
specialty that encompasses research and applied work in several broad domains: counseling process and outcome; supervision and training; career development and counseling; and prevention and health
Counseling Psychology
the outdated study of how bumps or shape of one’s head affects the brain and thinking
Phrenology
a measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other
Correlation
the arithmetic average in a distribution
Mean-
the middle score in a distribution
Median-
-the most frequently occurring score in a distribution
Mode
the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.
Hindsight Bias-
a sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion.
Random Sample-
when both the research participants and the researchers are blind to which participants have the placebo
Double-Blind-
a neurotransmitter’s reabsorption by the sending neuron
Reuptake-
chemical messengers that cross the synaptic gaps between neurons
Neurotransmitter-
the biologically an socially influenced characteristics by which people associate as being male or female
Gender Schema-
set of expected behaviors for males and females
Gender Role-