What is Psychology?
Psychology as a science
Unethical Research Category
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Disorders
100
The scientific study of behaviour and mental processes.
What is Psychology
100
A subject that sounds 'scientific' but fails to use the scientific method.
What is Pseudoscience?
100
Good, desirable or acceptable conduct providing reasons for these considerations.
What are Ethics?
100
The failure to resist impulses to steal things that are not needed for either personal use or for their monetary value. There is typically anxiety prior to the act of theft and relief or gratification afterward.
What is Kleptomania?
200
I evaluate, diagnose and treat patients with mental disorders. may prescribe medication or suggest therapy according to my patients' needs. I am a
I am a Psychiatrist.
200
A testable prediction of the results or the relationship between 2 variables.
What is a hypothesis?
200
Personal information that could disclose or identify the participant must be kept private.
What is confidentiality?
200
A feeling of extreme anxiety about being in places where escape might be difficult or embarrassing or in which help may not be available should a panic attack develop. It can be sub diagnosed as either ‘with’ or ‘without’ panic disorder. Typically situations that invoke anxiety are avoided and in extreme cases, the person may never or rarely leave their home.
What is Agoraphobia?
300
Thoughts, feelings and sensations that are private and internal - indirectly observable.
What are mental processes?
300
Information collected that is in non-numerical form. Eg. Transcript of an interview, notes from observing behaviour.
What is Qualitative data?
300
Participants were not told whether they had taken a vitamin c tablet or a sugar tablet until after the experiment when the researchers let them know.
What is deception and debriefing?
300
A pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and sense of entitlement. Often individuals feel overly important and will exaggerate achievements and will accept, and often demand, praise and admiration despite worthy achievements.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder
400
I provide help to individuals, couples, families or groups (in vocational or family settings, for example). My clients are people who are seeking assistance to resolve relationship difficulties, conflicts, or other problems that are seriously impacting on their lives. My broad aim is to facilitate communication, decision-making, problem-solving and conflict resolution. I am a
Counselling Psychologist
400
a variable that is manipulated by a researcher to investigate whether it consequently brings change in another variable.
What is an independent variable?
400
In this experiment the effect of an authority figure on obedience was studied.
What is the Stanley Milgrim Experiment?
400
Initial symptoms may include delusions and hallucinations, disorganized behavior and/or speech. As the disorder progresses symptoms such as flattening or inappropriate affect may develop.
What is Schizophrenia?
500
I can work within universities, hospitals, organisations like the CSIRO and other social institutes and agencies, to undertake research into questions that will advance our knowledge of psychology. I am a
Research Psychologist
500
a judgement about whether the findings of a research study can be applied to a bigger group of interest. The sample should be representative of the population and ideally should be randomly selected for the research.
What is a generalisation?
500
I studied the effects of the movement of facial muscles by trying to find out if all human beings made the same facial expressions in response to the same emotions.
Who is Carney Landis?
500
Symptoms include a disruption in consciousness, memory, identity, or perception. It is a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. It is thought to be a coping mechanism -- the person literally dissociates himself from a situation or experience that's too violent, traumatic, or painful to assimilate with his conscious self.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personalities)
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