Psychology's History
Approaches
Research Methods I
Research Methods II
Grab Bag!
100

This is psychology's central debate to explain our behavior and minds"

What is the nature v. nurture issue

100

This approach studies the links between biological (genetic, neural, hormonal) and psychological processes It answers questions like: To what extent does intelligence relate to our genes?

What is the biological approach?

100
This descriptive method of research studies a person or situation in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles
What is a case study?
100

An experimental procedure where both the research participants and the staff are ignorant of whether participants have received the independent variable, or the placebo

What is a double-blind procedure?

100

The outcome factor- the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable

What is the dependent variable?

200

Freud is best most known for which psychological perspective? 

What us Psychoanalytic?

200
This approach focuses on how we learn observable responses Answers questions like: What is the best way to alter a behavior, like smoking
What is the behavioral approach?
200
This research method looks at self-reported attitudes and behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of the group
What is the survey method?
200

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it

What is hindsight bias?

200
Self-reflected introspection was a technique used by this early psychology approach
What is structuralism?
300
This philosopher believed the mind is separate from the body and continues even after death
Who is Plato?
300
This approach studies how we process and store information, and how that impacts our behaviors Answers questions like How our interpretation of a situation impacts our behavior in reacting to it
What is the cognitive approach?
300

A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus how well either factor predicts the other

What is correlation?

300
The three methods of central tendency
What are mean, median, and mode?
300

Three ethical guidelines psychologists must follow when conducting experiments

What are consent, debriefing, confidentiality, doing no harm, no deception

400

This famous English philosopher and Enlightenment thinker argued that the mind is a tabula rasa- or blank slate- on which experience writes

Who is John Locke?

400
This approach studies how our culture and environment influences our behaviors
What is the social-cultural approach?
400
The experimental factor that is manipulated- the variable whose effect is being studied
What is the independent variable?
400

A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean

What is standard deviation?

400
This psychological approach studies how we meet our needs for love and self-fulfillment, focusing on how we can reach our highest potential
The humanistic approach
500

Who is known as the father of psychology because he established the fist psych lab in Germany?

Who is William Wundt?

500

This approach studies how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts

What is the psychodynamic approach?

500

When a graph has a positive skew, which way is the tail leaning?

What is to the right?

500
A statistical index of the relationship between two things (from -1 to 1)
What is correlation coefficient?
500

The measure of central tendency where the middle score falls at the 50th percentile (half of the scores are above, and half are below)

What is Median?

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