Psychology and It's Roots
Psychology Approaches
Scientific Method
Psychological Research
Samples and Settings
100
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What is Psychology?
100
The number of approaches to psychological science that we plan to study in this class
What is 7?
100
Anything that can change
What is a variable?
100
To determine relationships between variables, we use this type of research
What is correlational research?
100
The subset of the population chosen by the investigator for a study
What is a sample?
200
The process of thinking deeply and actively, asking questions, and evaluating the evidence
What is critical thinking?
200
The scientific study of the structure, function, development, genetics, and biochemistry of the nervous system
What is neuroscience?
200
This provides an objective description of how a variable is going to be measured and observed in a particular study
What is an operational definition?
200
Surveys are considered to be this
What is descriptive research?
200
A sample that gives every member of the population an equal chance of being selected
What is a random sample?
300
Gaining knowledge through the observation of events, the collection of data, and logical reasoning
What is the empirical method?
300
This approach dominated psychological research during the first half of the twentieth century
What is the behavioral approach?
300
A research finding is considered reliable when this happens
What is when the research finding is replicated by other scientists using different methods OR What is when there is a dependable result?
300
The value of a correlation always falls between this and this?
What is negative one and positive one?
300
This happens when an investigator observes behavior in a real-world setting
What is naturalistic observation?
400
William James' approach to studying mental processes
What is functionalism?
400
He theorized that early relationships with parents shape an individual's personality
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
A theory gains credibility when this happens
What is when more and more hypotheses related to a theory turn out to be true?
400
These are also known as confounds
What are third variables?
400
A sample should represent this
What is the population to which the investigator wants to generalize his or her results?
500
The author of "On the Origin of Species"
Who is Charles Darwin?
500
These individuals view the mind as an active and aware problem-solving system
Who are cognitive psychologists?
500
This step in the scientific method never ends
What is evaluating conclusions?
500
This occurs when a participant's expectations, rather than the experimental treatment, produce an outcome
What is the placebo effect?
500
This must be minimized when selecting a sample
What is bias?
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