History
The study of the mind and behavior
What is psychology?
True/False: We can prove things in psychology.
What is False?
Understanding how culture affects people's thoughts and preferences.
What is Cultural Perspective?
Experiment that killed over 128 African Americans.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment?
A case study is an example of this.
What is descriptive statistics?
Wilhelm Wundt
Who created the first psychological experiment?
Used to formulate and strengthen theories, which are sets of facts (and relationships between facts) that help us to explain and predict related phenomena.
What is the Scientific Method?
Understanding how the past shapes certain cultural universals that all human beings share.
What is the evolutionary perspective?
What is informed consent?
Investigating the relationship between two variables without manipulation.
What is correlational research?
The argument between biology and the environment.
What is Nature versus Nurture?
Thinking we are correct and only seeking evidence to further prove we are correct.
What is confirmation bias?
Understanding how our genetics, anatomy, biochemistry, etc. influence the way we behave.
What is the biological perspective?
To talk with participants after the experiment to inform them of any deception.
What is debriefing?
Research that allows you to make a casual conclusion about the relationship of two variables.
What is experimental research?
He created the psychodynamic perspective and lot of people think he started psychology.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The tendency to overestimate our knowledge and abilities in a certain area.
What is the overconfidence bias?
Understanding how our progression of social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and moral development impact the way we think and behave.
What is the developmental perspective?
To not share any identifying information (name, DOB, address, etc.) with anyone else.
What is confidentiality?
The variable that is manipulated.
What is the independent variable?
Created the idea of the "psyche or soul."
Who is Plato?
The inferences drawn from studying college students because they are easy to recruit.
What is the college sophomore problem?
Understanding how different individuals in groups act in various situations.
What is the social perspective?
Taking an abstract concept and turning it into something measurable.
What is an operational definition?
The group that receives the treatment.
What is the experimental group?