Defining Elements
Sampling
Types of Research Designs
Hot Research Topics
Psychology Chatter
100
An approach to psychology that treats it as one of the natural sciences, and therefore assumes that it is susceptible to the experimental method.
What is Experimental Psychology
100
is concerned with the selection of a subset of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population
What is sampling?
100
Explores or tests relations between variables
What is correlational design/study?
100
Living under the bridge or from pillar to post.
What is homelessness
100
The scientific study of behavior and mental process.
What is the definition of psychology?
200
Mid-term and Final Exam
What are the two major tests in this course?
200
A research design in which every unit in the population has a chance of being selected in the sample
What is probability sampling?
200
Studies participants in their natural setting
What is field research design?
200
Body aching, constant headache, protruding stomach.
What is hunger
300
Tuesday and Thursday
What are the days of the week this course meets?
300
A research design in which a given size, all such subsets of the frame are given an equal probability of being selected.
What is simple random sampling?
300
Directly establishes cause-effect nature of relationship between variables
What is experimental psychology designs?
300
Mother, child and no father living in the home.
What is single parenting/single parent family
300
Cognitive psychology, sports psychology, clinical psychology
What are other fields of psychology? Fields of psychology that are often connected to experimental psychology?
400
Respect, positive thinking, attending class, completing all assignments and being active in the learning process?
What are expectations of students in this course?
400
This research method relies on arranging the study population according to some ordering scheme and then selecting elements at regular intervals through that ordered list.
What is systematic sampling?
400
A small group of representative people who are questioned about their opinions as part of a research project.
What is a focus group?
400
Growing dependency leading to stealing, crime, dishonesty, brain damage and death.
What is drug addiction.
400
True/False: Mental illness is the number one cause of disability in North America and Europe.
What is true?
500
Giving others an opportunity to share their feelings and opinions. Being respectful by not having sidebar expectations and being highly professional.
What are expectations of students?
500
Where the population embraces a number of distinct categories, the frame can be organized by these categories into separate "strata."
What is Stratified sampling?
500
Research for asking questions: conducting research during which somebody is asked questions
What is an interview?
500
Auditory and visual hallucinations, delusions, mental disconnection.
What is mental illness
500
True/False: Interpersonal relationships increase human mental status.
What is true? When humans are engaged in positive long term relationships their mental status is more stable.
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