Uses the method of introspection to identify the basic elements or "structures" of psychological experience.
What is structuralism?
100
This type of research answers fundamental questions about behavior. For example, how nerves conduct impulses from the receptors in the skin to the brain.
What is basic research?
100
This research design creates a snapshot of a given phenomenon.
What is descriptive research?
100
The term used to describe legitimate conclusions drawn by the researcher in a study.
What is valid/valid research?
200
Psychodynamic psychologist who believed that many of our thoughts and emotions are unconscious.
Who is Sigmund Freud
200
The study of how the social situations and the cultures in which people find themselves influence thinking and behavior.
What is the social-cultural perspective?
200
The process in which research articles have been evaluated, critiqued, and improved by scientists in the field.
What is peer review?
200
In descriptive statistics, these numbers summarize the distribution of scores on a measured variable.
Hint: name at least three...
What are the mean, the median, and the mode?
200
One possible threat to a legitimate research study in which the experimenter subtly treats the research participants in the various experimental conditions differently, resulting in an invalid confirmation of the research hypothesis.
What is the experimenter bias?
300
Founder of the functionalist school of psychology, who stated "my thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing." (1890)
Who is William James
300
The psychological perspective that focuses on adaptation and survival as the basis of behavior and mental processes.
What is the evolutionary perspective?
300
The set of assumptions, rules, and procedures that scientists use to conduct research.
What is the scientific method?
300
One way to organize the data from a correlational study with two variables is to graph the values of each of the measured variables using a...
What is a scatter plot?
300
A type of experiment in which both the researcher and the research participants are unaware of which subjects are receiving the active treatment.
What is a double-blind experiment?
400
This psychologist was a member of the behavior school of psychology. He argued that free will is an illusion and that all behavior is determined by environmental factors.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
400
Founders of this psychological perspectives were Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.
What is the humanistic perspective?
400
This term refers to a specific statement of how variables are measured and or manipulated by the researcher.
What is an operational definition?
400
In correlational designs, the term used to describe two variables that have no relationship at all.
What is independent or nonlinear relationship?
400
If your IQ score is consistently the same every time you take an IQ test; the test is said to be:
What is reliable?
500
First female president of the American Psychological Association. This psychologist made significant contributions to the study of memory and self-concept.
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins
500
The study of mental processes, including perception, thinking, memory, and judgments.
What is the cognitive perspective?
500
The American Psychological Association Code of Ethics are comprised of these five principles.
What are, no harm, informed consent, confidentiality, deception, and debriefing?
500
A relationship between two variables in which a third variable produces and "explains away" the relationship.
What is a spurious relationship?
500
The extent to which relationships among conceptual variables can be demonstrated in a wide variety of people and a wide variety of manipulated or measured variables is described as: