People
Functionalist and wrote Principles of Psychology
William James
The amount of students who wear sweatshirts increase as the temperature decreases. What type of correlation is this?
negative.
Who was a strong believer in structuralism?
Alvin has trouble with memory due to his abnormally small hippocampus. This is most likely the _____________ approach.
biological
What is the difference between implicit and explicit memory?
implicit: unconscious or automatic
explicit: requires conscious thought
Father of psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
the test scores for AP Unit 1 were: 68, 79, 100, 56, 89, and 88. What is the mean of these scores? NO CALCULATORS.
80
Explores how mental and behavioral processes function– how they enable organism to adapt and survive.
Adam choose to marry Cindy because her wide hips indicate she will bear healthy children.
Which of the following coefficient correlations express the strongest relationship between two variables? -.91, -.71, -.32, +.8, +.908
-.91
Stanford Prison Experiment
Philip Zimbardo
what is random assignment vs. random sampling?
random assignment: assigning participants to treatment or non treatment group
random sampling: everyone in the population has an equal chance of being in the study.
What was William Wundt's research about?
Ms. Morris believes that students are motivated to act out in class by their unmet needs in esteem and belonging.
humanistic
what makes a strong experimental study? List 3 things
Ego, Superego, ID
Sigmund Freud
When a researcher has to tell you enough information for you to participate in the study.
informed consent.
Established the first psychology lab in the USA at Johns Hopkins
Stanley Hall
Tina wears skirts and dresses because she is unknowingly affected by her father leaving her mother for a woman who preferred skirts.
psychoanalytical
Billy shouts out, "The answer is 7!" The teacher replies, "The answer is actually 8." Billy, again shouts, "but I almost had the right answer!" what best describes Billy's feeling?
overconfidence
Discovered that certain questions could alter what a witness thought they saw, and make their memories falter.
Elizabeth Loftus
the scores for the Unit 1 AP Psychology exam were normally distributed. The mean is 100 and the standard deviation is 15. What percentage of students are within 1 standard deviation if the mean?
68%
A person who is interested in work relationships, attitudes and motivation is most likely interested in what field of psychology?
Industrial organizational psychology
the Smiths trained their dog not to leave their yard by using an invisible fence that delivers low level shocks if the dog passes it
behavioral
Why do people forget information? list 2 reasons
encoding failure, retrograde/anterograde amneisa, forgetting, failure to retrieve information