Introduction to Psych
Psychology is defined as ________.
Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Andrew is asking public school teachers a series of questions about the types of problems they encounter most in their classrooms and about their attitudes and perceptions toward their work and communities. What type of technique is he using?
survey
Often people do case studies on subjects like Genie because we need to study someone like her when we have a chance. This is because there are rules known as ________ that prevent us from creating her situation on purpose.
ethics
This is a perspective in psychology that believes in potential and growth.
Humanistic
Dr. Anthony Damasio and his colleagues studied a woman who could not recognize the facial expression of fear. After neurological tests and extensive interviews, they discovered that this inability resulted from damage to her amygdala. This in-depth study of one person is called a
case study
The control group in an experiment is the group in which participants ____.
3. receive no treatment
what would a developmental psychologist study?
Change over time.
Cause and effect conclusions can be drawn from ___ studies.
experimental
Which variables are ::: ____ are manipulated; ____ are measured.
IV and DV
If a therapist believes that someone's anxiety and depression comes from issues in your past that you never dealt with, what kind of psychology do they study?
Psychoanalysis
Simone is doing research with head injury victims who are in physical therapy. She believes that the addition of music to their physical therapy routine will enable them to better coordinate their motor skills. She randomizes the patients into two groups. Group A will get the regular physical therapy sessions. Group B will get the identical physical therapy sessions while listening to music. What is the independent variable?
2. music
If your psychology teacher posts all of your grades on the wall after having one group eat snacks and the other group not eat snacks during the test, which ethical rule are they violating?
confidentiality
If a psychologist thinks that a student is a class clown because they enjoy getting attention from their peers (which then makes them do silly things more), what kind of psychologist is this person?
Behavioral
A study randomized school-aged children into either a small class or a large class. When tested years later, children who had spend their K-3 years in small classes scored better on all tests of academic performance than did the students in larger classes. What is the dependent variable?
academic performance
What type of study shows relationships? We usually show the data on a scatterplot.
correlation