Psychological Approaches
Important People
Experiments
Research Methods
Miscellaneous
100

This is how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences

What is biological psychology

100

The "Father" of Psychology

Wilhelm Wundt

100

A testable prediction, often implied by a theory

Hypothesis

100

 An observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles

Case Study

100

Experiments are they only type of research that show what?

Cause and effect

200

This is how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures

What is socio-cultural psychology 

200

The controversial ideas of this famed personality theorist and therapist have influenced humanity's self-understanding.

Sigmund Freud

200

Repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other participants and circumstances

Replication

200

observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation

Naturalistic Observation

200

The perception of a relationship where none exists

illusionary correlation 

300

This style is how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conficts

What is psychodyamic/ psychoanalytic psychology 

300

This Horse appears to have been able to do math, before disproved by a psychologist

Hans

300

These test subjects are not usually exposed to the experimental treatment

A control group

300

an experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo

Double blind procedure

300

This group publishes recent research and even sometimes puts out guidelines for ethics in research

American Psychological Association

400

This is how we encode, process, store and retreive information

What is cognitive psychology

400

A leading behaviorist, this man rejected intro-spection and studied how consequences shape behavior

B.F. Skinner

400

The experimental factor that is manipulated

Independent Variable

400

This research method watches people and animals without them knowing, in order to study behavior

Naturalistic Observation

400

The postexperimental explanation of a study, including its purpose and any deceptions, to its percipients

Debriefing 

500

This is how we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self-fulfillment

What is humanistic psychology

500

The first woman to receive a psychology Ph.D., this woman synthesized animal behavior research in "The Animal Mind"

Margaret Floy Washburn

500

In order to be generally excepted by the general psychological community, experiments mist be what 2 things?

Valid and Reliable

500

The research method that shows naturally occurring relationships

Correlational research studies

500

The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.

Empiricism

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