Research
Terminoloogy
People/Careers
Perspectives
Techniques
100
Researchers manipulate this variable
What is independent
100
Science that scientifically studies behavior and mental processes
What is psychology
100

A branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage), and in achieving greater well-being.

What is counseling psycholog?

100
School of psychology associated with Freud that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal childhood conflicts in determining behavior
What is psychoanalysis
100

The post experimental explanation of a study including its purpose and any deceptions, to its participants.

What is debriefing?

200
The reasearcher measures this variable
What is dependent
200

A study method incorporating 5 steps:  Survey, question, read, retrieve, review.

What is SQ3R?

200
Established the first psychology labratory
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
200
Perspective that emphasized the growth potential of people and responsibility
What is humanistic
200
A method in which a researcher brings animals or humans into a controlled setting, such as a lab or a room, to study effects of variables on their behavior
What is an experiment
300
The researcher studies the impact of variable on this group - ex. if an experimenter were conducting research on the effects of music on test scores, the classroom that receives the different types of music would be this type of group
What is experimental
300

The long-standing debate over the relative contribution that genes and experience make to the development of personality traits and behaviors

What is nature versus nurture?

300
Medical doctor who has clinical training and can treat neurological illnesses and can treat them with prescription drugs
What is a psychiatrist
300
The prespective of psychology interested in the influence of the nervous system, hormones, and genes
What is biological
300
Yields information from a large group of people about their opinions or behavior
What is a survey
400
The procedure used when neither participants nor researchers directly working with the participants know which group is recieving which treatment
What is double blind
400

Giving potential participants enough enough information about a study to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate

What is informed consent?

400
Trained to diagnose and treat using psychotherapy
What is a clinical psychologist
400
Method of exploring consious mental process by asking subjects to look inward and report their sensations and perceptions
What is introspection
400
Method that studies a topic in great detail
What is a case study
500
A specific prediction or statement of likelyhood that a certain event will occur or that a given relationship will be found between two variables
What is a hypothesis
500

Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, thus minimizing preexisting difference between the groups.

What is random assignment?

500

A leading behaviorist who studied how consequences shape behavior.

Who is B. F. Skinner?

500

Perspective that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without refrenced mental process. Associated with John Watson

What is behaviorism

500
A method of observation in which the researcher studies people or animals in their natural setting
What is naturalistic
600

A research method which uses case studies, naturalistic observations, and surveys to gather data

What is descriptive research?

600

A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together

What is correlation?

600

An early school of thought in psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral functions helps us to adapt, survive and flourish.

What is functionalism?

600

The perspective that focuses on how processing, storing and retrieving information influences our behavior

What is cognitive?

600

Experimental results caused by expectation alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an inert substance or condition which the recipient assumes is the active  agent

What is placebo effect?

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