Goals
In this Goal, psychologists make observations or record information about a single event/person/or behavior.
What is describe?
This Domain involves the application of the principles of biology to the study of mental processes and behavior.
What is biological?
This man studied the learned behavior of dogs, that would salivate when given food or even when given a stimulii that has been associated with food.
Who is Pavlov?
In this Worldview, it is considered a small jump to go from animals to man.
What is evolutionary?
This is the research method that follows an individual in great detail.
What is a case study?
In this Goal Psychologists will provide a reason for observations that were obtained in the Describe goal.
What is explain?
This Domain typically includes alot of objective and scientific descriptions, predictions, control, and improvements in the areas of:attention, problem solving, language, memory, intelligence.
What is cognitive?
This man was the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue. He had many ideas about uunconscious thoughts having an very significant impact on behavior.
Who is Freud?
In This Worldview, Man is a special creature, with a Soul.
What is Biblical?
In this method carefully controlled variables and groups of participants allow the researcher to make cause and effect conclusions.
What is an experiment?
This is the final Goal of Psychology, and it attempts to make a difference in peoples lives.
What is improve?
Debates in this Domain continue as to the impact of nature vs nuture, or whether people go through well defined stages or more fluid and continuous stages of growth.
What is developmental?
This man is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology"In 1879, He founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research at the University of Leipzig.
Who is Wundt?
This Approach to Phycology has the following assumptions:1) People and animals are controlled by their environment. 2) There is no distinction between man or animal, there is no free will.3)Environmental factors, "Stimuli", affect observed behavior, "Responses"
What is behaviorism?
In this Method the researcher cannot jump to the conclusion as to the cause, they can only state how two variables are related.
What is correlation?
This Goal of Psychology is what the "Marshmellow Experiment" achieved.
What is predict?
Clinical psychology is a major part of this domain, and focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders problem behavior.
What is abnormal/clinical/mental and physical health?
Others have labeled this man as the "Father of American psychology." He gained widespread recognition with his monumental The Principles of Psychology (1890)considered to be one of the major figures associated with the philosophical school known as pragmatism, and is also cited as one of the founders of functional psychology.
Who is William James?
topic:This Approach to Phycology has the following assumptions:1) People and animals are controlled by their environment. 2) There is no distinction between man or animal, there is no free will.3)Environmental factors, "Stimuli", affect observed behavior, "Responses"
What is cognitivism?
This is the type of research that spans a long period of time, such as the Marshmallow experiment.
What is longitudinal?
This Goal of Psychology is what they were originally expecting when they manipulated lighting conditions but accidently discovered the Hawthorn effect, in which an individual changes behavior due to being observed.
This Domain involves the scientific study of how people’s thoughts and behaviors are influenced by the actual or imagined presence of others.
What is social/cultural?
This man is best known for creating a hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health that states we are all working on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in "self-actualization."
Who is Maslow?
This Approach believes man has great potential and An individual's behavior is connected to his inner feelings and self-image.
What is humanism?
This is the description for a variable that has an effect on the dependent and independent variable simultaneously, making it difficult to take into account.
What is a confounding variable?