Introduction
Psychological Perspectives
Research Methods
Research
Careers in Psychology
100
December 1879 University Leipzig, Germany.
What is when psychology was born?
100
the question of, "do human traits develop through experience, or do we come equipped with them?"
What is the nature-nurture issue?
100
Smart thinking that examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.
What is critical thinking?
100
The repetition of a research study, used to ensure that a result did not appear by chance.
What is replication?
100
A psychologist that conducts research in age-related behavioral changes.
What is a developmental psychologist?
200
philosophy and biology
What are the two established fields that psychology developed from?
200
the influences of biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors on the human condition.
What is the biopsychosocial approach?
200
A research method involving the studying of one individual in great detail.
What is a case study?
200
Research in which the same people are restudied and tested over a long period of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
200
A psychologist that applies psychological principals to legal and criminal issues.
What is a forensic psychologist?
300
An individual's response to different situations
What is behavior?
300
hormones, natural selection, genetic predispositions, brain mechanisms.
What are biological influences?
300
A research method that looks into many cases in less depth.
What is a survey?
300
A statistical measure of a relationship between two or more points of data.
What is correlation?
300
A psychologist that researches the interactions between individuals.
What is a social psychologist?
400
The science of metal life; self-examination.
What is the way psychology was originally defined?
400
learned fears, and expectations, emotional responses, cognitive processing, and perceptual interpretations.
What are psychological influences?
400
An experimental procedure in which both the researchers and participants are ignorant about whether the participants have received the treatment or the placebo.
What is a double-blind procedure?
400
Assigning research participants to the experimental and control group by chance.
What is random assignment?
400
A psychologist who promotes psychological health in individuals, groups, and organizations.
What is a clinical psychologist?
500
The study of observable behavior.
What is modern definition of psychology?
500
presence of others, cultural, social, and familial expectations, peer and/or group influences.
What are social-cultural influences?
500
The clearest and cleanest way to isolate cause and effect.
What is an experiment?
500
A study in which people of different age groups are compared to one another.
What is a cross-sectional study?
500
Psychologists who primarily do research to add to psychology's store of knowledge.
What is a cognitive psychologist?
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