Number of hours of sleep a night and GPA rankings
What is a positive correlation
I focus on how a person thinks-How you take in, process, store, and retrieve information
What is Cognitive Perspective
I study the growth & devlopment of a person from birth to death
What is Developmental Psychologist
This person goes to school for and M.D. and is able to prescribe medication to patients
What is a psychiatrist?
We are not exposed to the independent variable
What is the Control Group
Number of hours of exercise and the risk of health issues
What is a negative correlation
We diagnose and treat people with psychological problems. We compose about 1/3 of all psychologist.
What is Clinical Psychologist
A type of sample in which subgroups of a population are selected to provide more accurate representation
What is a stratified sample
The American Psychological Association instituted their ethical standards
What is 1952
I handle curriculum planning and instructional methods in the school.
What is Educational Psychologist
These are the four goals of psychology IN ORDER
This method allows the creation of a study to follow and track the incoming freshmen class throughout their four years of high school.
What is Longitudinal Study
These are 3 ethical MUST do's when conducting research experiments
What are:
Maintain confidentiality
Informed consent
Justified deceptions
Allow withdrawals
Debrief afterwards
Emphasizes unconscious processes and unresolved past conflicts as influences on behavior.
What is the psychodynamic perspective
I help people with life challenges such as job issues, family matters, and marriage and divorce
What is a Counseling psychologist
This type of experiment is the BEST because neither the participants nor the researchers know which treatment or intervention the participants are receiving until the trial is over
This is a method where a single individual or thing is studied in depth
What is Case Study
These are the five ethical areas psychologists need to abide by
What are:
Beneficence & Nonmaleficence (No harming)
Fidelity and Responsibility (Follow rules)
Integrity (Honest)
Justice (Fair)
Respect for Rights/Dignity (Confidential and private)
This school of thought went against the ideas of structuralism and states "The whole is different from the sum of its parts"
What is Gestalt Psychology
I deal with applying the theories of psychology to the world of work.
What is industrial/organizational psychology