Go Figure(s)
The founder of modern psychology
Who is Willhelm Wundt
An early school of thought which explored how mental and behavioral processes work
What is Functionalism?
Clever Han's method for solving problems.
The variable that a researcher changes is called the _____ while the variable that changes as a result and is measure is called the _____
What is the Independent Variable and Dependent Variable.
Failure to disclose to patients in the Tuskegee study that they were in an experiment violates an ethical procedure known as
What is Informed Consent?
John B. Watson is best known as the founder of
What is Behaviorism
According to this theory of psychology, many people have mental illnesses because their maladaptive behaviors have proven rewarding for them in the past and thus have been continued.
What is Behavioral?
The correlation between two measures obtained on a group of individuals is graphically represented as a
Ensuring that the participants of your group have equal chance of beign in any of the conditions is known as
What is Random Assignment?
A research design involves two randomly assigned groups of participants. One group receives a one-time treatment, and the other does not. Later, the two groups are compared to see whether the treatment had an effect.
What is an experiment?
Founder of the first psychology laboratory in the U.S.
Who is G. Stanley Hall?
This persepctive of psychology takes into account a person's genetics, patterns of thought, and cultural context
What is Biopsychosocial Approach?
The hearts Mr. OBrien has on his left arm.
The mean will be higher than the median in a distribution that.
What is positively skewed?
Research in which the same children are tested periodically at different points in their development.
What is a Longitudinal study?
These individuals go to medical school and receiving training in the treatment of psychological disorders. They typically treat with medically based treatments instead of psychotherapy.
What is a Psychiatrists?
Margaret tells her therapist that she has recently been fighting with her mother. She also reports arguing with female teachers. Margaret’s therapist suggests she is taking out her aggressive impulses towards her mother on her female teachers because she unconsciously believes that they resemble her mother.
A paper by Rohn et al. (2001) indicates that there is a correlation between the amount of neurofibrillary tangles and caspase-cleavage product in Alzheimer patients. The r-value for this correlation is 0.84. What kind of correlation is this?
What is a Positive Correlation
A test has a mean of 80 with a standard deviation of 4. Which of the following scores is within one standard deviation of the mean?
75 77 86 90
What is 77?
Only sampling friends and friends of friends, using emotionally charged wording, and sampling only individuals who have to participate in research for class.
What is Sampling Bias?
Female pupils of William James who earned PhDs and eventually became presidents for the APA
Who are Mary Whiton Calkins or Margaret Floy Washburn?
In studying the behavior of five years olds in freeplay situations, this psychologist would be most interested in the children's problem-solving strategies.
What is Cognitive?
A standing committee mandated by Federal law and regulations to oversee the programs at institutions using animals in research, teaching, or testing, in order to ensure the humane and ethical treatment of animals.
What is the IACUC - Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee?
A summary chart which shows how often each of the various scores in a set of data occur.
What is a Frequency Distribution?
A survey shows that children who have encyclopedias in their homes earn better grades in school than children whose homes lack encyclopedias. The researcher concludes that having encyclopedias at home improves grades. This conclusion is erroneous primarily because the researcher has incorrectly
What is inferred Causation from Correlation?