Approaches to Psychology
What is psychology?
The science of behavior and mental processes
What is a clinical psychologist?
evaluate and treat mental, emotional and behavioral disorders
What is experimenter bias?
a phenomenon that occurs when a researcher’s expectations or preferences about the outcome of a study influence the results obtained.
What are ethical guidelines?
suggested rules for acting responsibly and morally when conducting research or clinical practice
Was Locke an empiricist (knowledge from experience) or rationalist (knowledge from reason)
What is monism?
seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing.
What's a developmental psychologist?
What's a placebo?
a response to the belief that the independent variable will have an effect, rather than the actual effect of the independent variable, which can be a confounding variable.
What's an internal review board?
A self-check on the ethical standards of research
What did Plato and Descartes both believe?
Behavior is inborn
What is dualism?
Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
What is a forensic psychologist?
They apply psychological knowledge to legal issues
What's the placebo effect?
a response to the belief that the independent variable will have an effect, rather than the actual effect of the independent variable, which can be a confounding variable.
What's the Milgram Authority Experiment?
What did Aristotle, Locke, Skinner and Watson believe?
That behavior comes from experience
What is the nature-nurture controversy?
The extent to which behavior results from heredity or from experience
What are sports psychologists?
Help athletes refine their focus on competition
What's a theory?
Organized sets of concepts that explain phenomena
What's the Stanford experiment?
People became prisoners and weren't allowed to leave
What did structuralism emphasize?
early psychological perspective that emphasized units of consciousness and identification of elements of thought using introspection.
What is the school of structuralism
early psychological perspective that emphasized units of consciousness and identification of elements of thought using introspection.
What's a social psychologist?
show how a person's mental life and behavior are influenced by another person
What's a hypothesis?
prediction of how two or more factors are likely to be related.
What's the Tuskegee experiments
Syphillis infected men in Alabama were denied treatment.
What did functionalism emphasize?
early psychological perspective concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities to adapt to its environment.