Psychology Approaches
Careers in Psychology
Research Methods
Experimental Design
Ethics
100
This approach to psychology operates under the premise that humans want to become they best they can possibly be and are striving towards the ultimate goal of self-actualization.
What is the humanistic perspective?
100
In order to be called a "psychologist" one must have a license to practice in their state, several hours of supervised clinical experience, and this college degree.
What is a PhD or PsyD
100
A relatively small group of people from the overall population that you are studying is called this.
What is a sample?
100
In an experiment intended to decipher the cause and effect relationship between caffeine use and memory recall, the amount of caffeine that one consumes would be considered the
What is the IV?
100
Prior to conducting a research study at a university or hospital, one must get approval from this organization.
What is an IRB (Institutional Review Board)?
200
"Because your parents were very distant and emotionally unavailable to you as a child, you now have difficulty trusting other adults." The statement reflects this perspective.
What is the psychodynamic/psychoanalytic perspective?
200
This mental health professional is actually a medical doctor and can diagnose physical causes of behavior and prescribe medicinal treatments for those disorders.
What is a psychiatrist?
200
If you wanted to study the mating rituals of non domesticated animals, it would be best to use this method of research.
What is naturalistic observation?
200
An educated guess about the results you expect from your research is called this.
What is an hypothesis?
200

This should only be used in a research study when it is absolutely necessary and justified by the study's scientific or applied value. ______needs to be limited in order to not invalidate the informed consent

What is deception?

300
A psychologist who looks at medical or physical causes for abnormal human behavior most likely operates from this perspective.
What is the biological perspective?
300
These psychologists study and develop methods for businesses to improve production from their workforce.
What is an industrial/organizational psychologist?
300
This measures the relatedness between two sets of variables and is described as positive, negative or zero.
What is a corrleation?
300

Merely selecting individuals to participate can impact their behavior and performance alone.


What is the Hawthorne Effect?

300
A researcher must acquire this from potential subjects prior to the subjects taking part in the study.
What is informed consent?
400
A psychologist who is interested in your experiences as a member of an ethnic or cultural minority would most likely explain your behaviors from this perspective.
What is the sociocultural perspective?
400
Someone who works within the court system and creates profiles of criminals works in this branch of psychology.
What is forensic psychology?
400
Dishonest answers, low response rate, and no establishment of cause and effect are all limitations on this method of research
What is a survey/questionnaire
400
In an experiment intended to decipher the cause and effect relationship between caffeine use and memory recall, the number of words recalled on a memory test would be considered this.
What is the DV?
400
True or false: A researcher may violate minor laws if the law violation furthers the science of psychology and human welfare.
What is false?
500
The processing, storage, and retrieval of information and how that influences behavior is the focus of this perspective.
What is the cognitive perspective?
500
Holly, who tests elementary students for learning disabilities and helps design individualized instruction programs for those students, is this type of psychologist.
What is a school psychologist?
500
This number falls between -1.0 and +1.0 and tells the strength of the relationship between two variables.
What is the correlation coefficient?
500

In a study done to correlate amount of sleep and depression, the author defines depression by the subjects' scores on an Emotional Mood Inventory. This definition is considered to be this.

Hint: Defines how you will measure depression.

What is Operational Definition?

500
What was the actual subject that was being studied during Stanley Milgram's experiment at Yale University in 1962?
What is obedience to authority?
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