Famous Psychologists
An English naturalist, geologist, and biologist; best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
Charles Darwin
"An organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts."
Gestalt
The value that appears most often in a set of data values.
Mode
The "middle" of a sorted list of numbers.
Median
___________ does not imply causation.
Correlation
A German physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founders of modern psychology.
Wilhelm Wundt
The first school of thought in psychology.
Structuralism
Any variable that you're not investigating that can potentially affect the outcomes of your research study.
Extraneous Variable
A list of questions aimed at extracting specific data from a particular group of people.
Survey
Discussing intellectual property frankly is part of what guideline?
APA Ethical Principles
An American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.
William James
A viewpoint of the theory of the mind.
Functionalism
An experimental design in which multiple measures are taken over a period of time from two or more groups of different ages.
Cohort-Sequential Design
A single value that attempts to describe a set of data by identifying the central position within that set of data.
Measure of Central Tendency
A pervasive cognitive bias that causes people to “see their own behavioral choices and judgments as relatively common and appropriate to existing circumstances”.
False Consensus Effect
A Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov
Psychoanalysis
A set of similar items or events which is of interest for some question or experiment.
Population
A type of data that is used to label variables without providing any quantitative value.
Nominal
List the 8 main perspectives in psychology:
Behavioral, Biological, Biopsychosocial, Cognitive, Developmental, Evolutionary, Sociocultural, and Psychodynamic
The first president of the American Psychological Association, and founded the American Journal of Psychology.
G. Stanley Hall
B. F. Skinner is part of this school of psychology.
Behaviorism
The alteration of behavior by the subjects of a study due to their awareness of being observed.
Hawthorne Effect
A categorical, statistical data type where the variables have natural, ordered categories and the distances between the categories is not known.
Ordinal
When did psychology "originate?"
1879