What is Psychology?
Behaviour is overt. True or false?
True
Drinking coffee improves concentration. What is the IV?
Drinking coffee.
What is the name of the person who practices psychiatry?
Psychiatrist
What type of psychology looks at development through the lifespan?
Developmental psychology
Researchers must obtain full verbal permission from participants before they join the study. True or False?
False - They need WRITTEN permission
Define psychology
The study of behaviour and mental processes
What is the first step of the scientific method?
Observation
What is one difference between psychology vs psychiatry?
Psychiatry can prescribe meds, psychology cannot
This area of psychology focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders. Also the most common form of psychology.
Clinical psychology
What ethical guideline/s need to be upheld throughout the whole experiment?
Confidentiality
Feeling angry about the way someone has treated you may affect what you think about the person and the way you behave towards them when you next meet them. Identify the mental processes.
Feeling and thinking
A specific, testable statement proposing a potential explanation for an observation describes which component of the scientific method?
Psychologists use what type of therapy in their work?
Psychotherapy or talk therapy
What 2 things can sport psychologists help athletes with?
Mental skill development
Stress management
Mental focus
Team building and leadership
Assist in career transitions
If harm occurs during the study, what must researchers provide?
Counselling
Psychology aims to describe, predict, explain and control thoughts, _________ and _________.
feelings and behaviours
Ensuring it is 'falsifiable' and 'testable' is a feature of which step of the scientific method?
Hypothesis
A psychiatrist needs how many months of specialist training to become a registered psychiatrist?
60 months
This area of psychology specialises in how biological processes influence the mind and behaviour.
Neuropsychology
Disposing of information related to participants is what ethical guideline?
Confidentiatiality
What are the 4 goals of psychology?
Describe, predict, explain, control
Name and describe the two types of sampling methods.
Random - ensures each member of the population has an equal chance of being chosen for the sample.
Stratified - dividing the population in subgroups then randomly choosing participants from each of the subgroups which forms the sample.
Who are psychologists and psychiatrists registered with in order to practice?
Psychologist - Psychology Board of Australia (part of AHPRA)
Psychiatrists - RANZCP
Performing job analyses is a role of which area of psychology?
Organisational psychology
Describe the Milgram Obedience Experiment
Participants were told to shock participants every time they got an answer wrong however they did not know that the shocks were real. It heavily broke the ethical guideline of deception.