Types of Psychology/Psychologists
Although I cannot prescribe medication, I help those suffering from depression, schizophrenia, and other mental health disorders by using talk therapy.
What is a clinical psychologist?
Psychoanalysis
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Jane Goodall and her chimpanzees
What is a naturalistic observation?
In the scientific method, this follows the method.
What are the results (data)?
Scoring a 72, 69, 67, and 71 in your four rounds of golf gives you an average of a 69.75. This average is also known as...
What is 'the mean?'
I study decision-making, problem solving, memory, and thinking through language.
What is a cognitive psychologist?
Theory of Evolution/Natural Selection
Who was Charles Darwin?
To make a hypothesis or theory stronger, experiments are carried out many times hoping to find which type of results.
What are 'replicable' results?
When experimenting with a new cancer medication, participants are randomly assigned to these two groups: one that will receive the medication and one that will receive a placebo.
What are 'experimental' and 'control' groups?
The most frequent score among a set of scores.
What is the mode?
This field of psychology might compare alcoholism in one country to another country and why it appears in some places and not others.
What is a cross-cultural?
Behaviorism
Who is John B. Watson?
These are the four types of samples discussed in Chapter 2.
What are convenience, representative, random, and cross-cultural?
What the experimenters are manipulating in the experiment?
What is the independent variable?
This term is a statement of the highest and lowest values.
What is 'range?'
I might ask, 'how can this airplane cockpit be redesigned to increase safety?'
What is a human factors specialist or ergonomist?
Eugenics
Who is Francis Galton?
When investigating rates of depression and weekly consumption of seafood, researchers found that as consumption increased, depression decreased. This is known as a _______________ correlation.
What is a 'negative?'
Experiments will often be conducted in a single-blind or double-blind study for this reason.
What is 'to eliminate bias?'
A score or measurement that is 5 standard deviations above or below the mean is often referred as.
What is 'statistically significant' or rare or unique?
I try to help people make important decisions in career, marriage, and health-related issues.
What is a counseling psychologist?
Established the first psychology laboratory in the world in Germany.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
These are two of the problems with researching people.
What are people are unique and unusual, do not always behave the same way, will behave differently if they know they are being watched or in an experiment, and some experiments are just not ethical for humans?
A full moon and the rise of abnormal behavior are no more common than a half-moon and abnormal behavior. We know this is a falsehood today and we refer to it as.
What is 'an illusory correlation?'
A man who is four-foot-ten inches tall is 4 standard deviation's below the mean and represents this percentage of the population.
What is 'less than 1%?'