People
Who developed the concept of Tabula Rasa?
John Locke
What is Sigmund Freuds approach that explores unconscious instincts and drives?
Psychoanalysis
What is a confounding variable?
Other factors that may influence the result
What is the Barnum Effect?
Convincing people of accurate information by being vague
What is pseudo psychology?
Psychology that is not based on science. (I.e. Phrenology, palmistry, graphology, astrology)
Who is Wilhelm Hunt?
The father of Psychology
What is behaviorism?
The psychological approach that views behaviors as a product of rewards and punishments.
What are Z-Scores?
Measure of distance from the mean.
What is the Hawthorn Effect?
Changing behaviors when being observed
What is normal distrubution?
Distribution w/ equal mean, median, and mode
Who is William James?
The founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment.
What is Structuralism?
Psychological approach focused on looking inward at the brain
What is the experimental method?
A Research method that explores cause and effect relationships.
What is the Placebo Effect?
Expecting results and producing them
What is Standard Deviation
The measure of how far a number is from the mean
Who is Watson?
Behaviorism, Little Albert study, aversion therapy
What is Humanism?
Psychological approach focused on human potential
What is Statistical significance?
What is the expectancy effect?
Expecting results and influencing them
What is the cognitive approach?
Psychological approach focused on thinking
Who established the 1st psychology research laboratory in the US.
G. Stanley Hall
What is eclectic?
Psychologists use multiple approaches.
What are Operational Definitions?
Precise explanations of how variables are measured.
What is Hindsight Bias?
Tendency to believe you knew something all along.
Random sampling is when you select people at random to survey for research
Random assignment is when you select people at random to be either in the control group or experimental group.