What's That Called Again
A school of thought that emphasizes the role of environmental forces in producing behavior.
What is behaviorism?
A model of interconnected ideas or concepts that explain what is observed and makes predictions about future events.
What is a theory?
Using this, people are asked to respond to a series of questions about a particular subject.
What is Survey?
The beliefs, values, rules and customs that exist within a group of people who share a common language and environment that are transmitted through learning from one generation to the next.
What is culture?
The basis of evolution; the idea that those who inherit characteristics that help them adapt to their particular environment have a selective advantage over those who do not.
What is Natural Selection?
A systematic procedure of observing and measuring phenomena(observable things) to answer questions about what happens when it happens, what causes it, and why. This process involves dynamic interaction between theories, hypotheses, and research methods.
What is the scientific method?
In an experiment, the variable that the experimenter manipulates to examine its impact on the dependent variable.
What is the independent variable?
Father of American psychology, founder of the school of thought, functionalism.
Who is William James?
An early school of thought concerned with the adaptive purpose or function of mind and behavior.
What is functionalism?
Groups of people responsible for reviewing proposed research to ensure that it meets the accepted standards of science and provides for the physical and emotional well being of research participants.
What is the Institutional Review Board?
A sample of participants that fairly represents the population, because each member of the population has an equal chance of being included.
What is a random sample?
Founded the School of Thought and Psychoanalysis, which emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflicts, and determining and understanding human behavior.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The idea that the whole of a personal experience is different from simply the sum of its parts.
What is Gestalt theory?
Systematically evaluating information to reach conclusions best supported by evidence.
What is critical thinking?
In an experiment, the variable that is measured to determine how it was affected by the manipulation of the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
The scientific study of mental activity and behavior, which are based on brain processes.
What is psychology?
An approach to psychology based on the idea that conscious experience can be broken down into its basic underlying components.
What is structuralism?
A scientific prediction of what should be observed in a study, if a theory is correct.
What is a hypothesis?
In an experiment, a comparison group of participants that does not receive the experimental treatment.
What is the control group?
Founder of School of Behaviorism. He believed that people have three basic emotional reactions: fear, rage and love.
Who is John Watson?