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Study Design
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Aimed to identify the most basic elements of the psychological experience. He wanted to measure the speed of basic thought processes
What is Wilhelm Wundt
100
This is used to get answers in regards to a question being posed, by asking a lot of people at random. Always a fixed set of questions.
What is a survey
100
Gathers the mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation. Essentially, it describes the sample.
What is Descriptive Statistics
100
Explain the conditions (and what made them different) in the Rosenweig study
What is Standard Conditions Impoverished Conditions Enriched conditions
100
Define a positive and a negative correlation.
What is Positive: exists when one variable decreases as the other variable decreases, or one variable increases while the other increases. (+1.00) Negative: two variables in which one variable increases as the other decreases, and vice versa. (-1.00)
200
18th Century philosopher who argued that the mind was a blank slate (tabula rasa) at birth.
What is John Locke
200
An in-depth analysis of a particular issue that only includes one or two people. This can provide a full range of information about that person or people in hopes that it can be generalized to others with the same problem.
What is a Case Study
200
Used to make inferences about the population. This information tells us if there was a statistically significant difference or if the difference was likely due to a chance occurrence.
What is Inferential Statistics
200
Who established the psychological school of behaviorism and conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising. In addition, he conducted the controversial "Little Albert" experiment and the Kerplunk experiment.
What is John B. Watson
200
This uses an empirical approach. This theory states that the only source of knowledge comes through our senses – e.g. sight, hearing etc.
What is Empiricism
300
A strong proponent of reflexology and influenced Pavlov.
What is Ivan M. Sechenov
300
Method of gathering information by watching people or animals in their natural environment or habitat. Allows the researcher the benefit of seeing what is normally done in any given situation.
What is Naturalistic Observation
300
How unlikely that we would get the difference that we found if there were no difference in the population. OR How confident the researchers are that they didn't get a result from chance alone.
What is P-value
300
Who is the main figure involved in Functionalism and he hoped to understand the adaptive purposes of psychological characteristics
What is William James
300
A theory that says that most basic skills are hard-wired in the brain at birth. This theory is the opposite of the theory called the blank slate, or tabula rasa.
What is Nativism
400
Studied the language centers in the brain
What is Paul Broca
400
Seeks to make predictions about behavior or mental processes
What is Correlational Study
400
Researchers want to see if women respond to men differently when they wear different colors so they had a research wear four different color shirts (black, red, blue, yellow) and would try to talk to random women in an office building. What is the Independent Variable?
What is Color of shirts
400
Give me a brief synopsis of Bouchard's experiment. (Are You A "Natural")
What is 56 pairs of MZA twins 1 week long visit to Univ. of Minnesota 50 hours of testing Physiological variables Brain activity Blood pressure Heart rate Psychological variables 2 intelligence tests 4 personality trait scales 3 aptitude/occupational interest inventories Personal information Psychiatric interview Sexual history interview Conclusions: 1) Genetically identical humans (MZT) raised separately grew into adults who were remarkably similar 2) There was little effect of the environment on identical twins raised in the same setting.
400
Give me two key elements of good writing, according to APA formatting.
What is Organization Clarity Conciseness
500
Used the ablation technique to localize functions in the brain
What is Pierre Flourens
500
Seek to make causal inferences about behavior or mental processes.
What is an Experiment
500
Researchers want to see the effectiveness of this new drug, Snap-Papple, on relieving migraines. To do this the researchers gathered 100 volunteers and randomly assigned half to the experimental drug group and the other half to the placebo group. Both groups believed they were getting the real drug. When the volunteers got migraines, they were instructed to take one tablet only and write how they were feeling every 10 minutes. What is the Dependent Variable?
What is How the volunteer felt after taking the drug
500
Give me a brief synopsis of Rosenweig's Study (More Experience = Bigger Brain)
What is What is 12 sets of three male rats from same litter were assigned to different living conditions at weaning Remained in these environments for 4-10 weeks 1) Standard condition (SC) -3 animals per cage, food and water 2) Impoverished condition (IC) - 1 animal per cage, food and water 3) Enriched condition (EC) -10-12 rats in large cage with lots of toys changed daily, food and water Cerebral cortex in EC much heavier and thicker
500
Give me 2 ethical considerations.
Protection from harm Informed consent Freedom to withdrawal at any time Confidentiality Debriefing
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