Intro
Scientific study of mind and behavior using empirical methods
What is psychology?
Focuses on thinking, including attention, language, memory, and problem-solving
What is cognitive psychology?
This type of study uses a small area of focus, allowing for collection of in-depth information, but sometimes making it difficult to generalize results
What is a case study?
When this is activated, you will feel relatively at ease
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
These use observation and experiments to collect data and test hypotheses
What are empirical methods?
What is biopsychology?
These study the relationship between variables instead of causation
What are correlational designs?
This consists of a list of questions to be answered by research participants. It allows for a larger sample and more generalizability, but information is not as in-depth
What is a survey?
Activation of this system helps us prepare to fight or flee
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Researchers might use this if providing participants with full details of an experiment could skew responses
What is deception?
Focuses on the scientific study of development across the lifespan
What is developmental psychology?
These use techniques including participant observation, case studies, and narrative analysis to gather information
What are qualitative designs?
This is a weakness of using surveys (related to the reliability of the responses)
What is people lie?
This system is associated with conscious or voluntary activities
What is the somatic nervous system?
This number ranges from -1 to 1 and indicates strength and direction of the relationship between variables
What is the correlation coefficient?
Focuses on patterns of thoughts and behaviors that make individuals unique
What is personality psychology?
In this design, existing group memberships are treated as independent variables but are not manipulated
What are quasi-experimental designs?
This involves studying the same people or group over a long period of time; it allows for collection of a large volume of information but can be expensive and requires a significant commitment of time
What is longitudinal research?
This system is associated with the control of internal organs and processes considered voluntary
What is the autonomic nervous system?
In this type of correlation, an increase in one variable is associated with an increase in the other variable
What is sport psychology?
Does correlation equal causation?
What is NO?
Observing behavior in its natural setting; information is more generalizable, but the observation can be difficult to control, and observer bias can skew results
What is naturalistic observation?
These are the two basic types of cells in the nervous system