The author of Beyond Freedom and Dignity, this researcher believed that events that lead to positive outcomes are repeated and events that lead to negative outcomes are not repeated.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
100
The belief that psychology should not examine consciousness, but rather only overt or observable behaviour.
What is behaviourism?
100
This kind of psychologist is concerned with the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of individuals with mental disorders.
What is a clinical psychologist?
100
The group of people that receive some kind of treatment in regard to the independent variable.
What is the experimental group?
100
The arithmetic average of scores.
What is the mean?
200
This researcher illustrated how cell assemblies describe neural networks. He is also the author of the phrase, "Cells that fire together wire together."
Who is Donald Hebb?
200
An attempt to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behaviour.
What is psychoanalytic theory?
200
This field of psychology looks at human maturation across the lifespan. Research explores not only children, but adolescence, adulthood, and old age.
What is developmental psychology?
200
An advantage to this approach is that cause-and-effect conclusions can be established.
What is experimental research?
200
The score falling in the exact centre of the distribution.
What is the median?
300
The founder of behaviourism.
Who is John B. Watson?
300
Led by Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers, this theory attempted to emphasize the unique qualities of people.
What is humanism?
300
Focuses on higher mental processes, such as memory, reading, reasoning, information processing, problem-solving, language, decision-making, and creativity.
What is cognitive psychology?
300
A technique that is used to control confounding variables.
What is random assignment?
300
The numerical depiction of variability in a distribution.
What is the standard deviation?
400
The creator of functionalism and the supposed winner of the "battle of the schools."
Who is William James?
400
Careful, systematic observations of one's own conscious experience.
What is introspection?
400
This focus of professional practice handles more everyday problems, than clinical disorders.
What is counselling psychology?
400
This method of research includes naturalistic observation, case studies, and surveys.
What is the descriptive/correlational method?
400
A numerical index of degree of relationship (between 0 and 1).
What is correlation?
500
The first experimental laboratory in the British Empire was established by this man at the University of Toronto.
Who is James Mark Baldwin?
500
Imagine a lego house. A _________ theorist would want to come in and break the lego house into little pieces, so they could study each individual piece. This type of theorist would also view consciousness with the same lens.
What is a structuralist?
500
The most popular employment setting for psychologists.
What is private practice?
500
Events are governed by some lawful order.
What is the basic assumption of the scientific approach?
500
Measures of central tendency are a form of ___________ statistics.