History of Psychology
Perspectives of Psychology
Subfields in Psychology
Types of Research
Stats
100

I helped birth psychology: 

Wilhelm Wundt 

100

How do we learn to fear particular objects? What is the most effective way to alter our actions?

Behavioral 

100

Studies influences on teaching and learning: 

Educational psychologists 

100

The oldest form of research. The researcher examines one individual or group in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles:

Case Study 

100

The middle score in a distribution

Median 

200

I was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology: 

Margaret Floy Washburn 

200

How do pain messages travel from the hand to the brain? How is blood chemistry linked with moods and motives?

Biological 
200

Exploring how we view and affect one another: 

Social psychologists 

200

A descriptive technique for obtaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample: 

Survey 
200

The average score in a dataset: 

Mean

300

The humanistic perspective was founded by one of these two men:  

Rogers and Maslow

300

How do we use information in remembering, reasoning, and problem solving?

Cognitive 

300
A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span: 

Developmental Psychology 

300
A research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process: 

Experiment 

300

Define standard deviation (extra points to your score if you can tell me what percentage of scores are roughly one standard deviation on either side of the mean):

a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score: 

68%

400

Psychology practices empiricism. Define the term, empiricism: 

Empiricism is an idea that knowledge comes from experience, observation, and experimentation. 

400

How can we work toward fulfilling our potential?

Humanistic 

400
What is the job of a rehabilitation psychologist? 

They are researchers and practitioners who work with people who have lost optimal functioning after an accident, illness, or other event. 

400

A factor other than the factor being studied that might influence a study's results: 

Confounding Variable

400

The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution:

Range

500

Behaviorism was founded by one of these two men: 

Skinner and Watson

500

How are we affected by the people around us?

Social-Cultural

500

Name the difference between basic research and applied research in psychology: 

Basic research- research that you would find in a lab setting, attempting to figure out why people do what they do. 

Applied research- are in real-world settings, taking psychologies principles and applying them to the workplace, etc. 

500

A type of research that detects naturally occurring relationships; to assess how one variable predicts another: 

Correlational Research Method

500

A bar graph depicting a frequency distribution: 

Histogram 

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