What is Psychology?
True or False: Psychologists focus only on the way people think and feel.
What is false? (they also look at thoughts)
True or False: behaviorists believe that only unobservable behaviors should be studied.
What is false? (Behaviorists only study OBSERVABLE behaviors)
True or False: Experimental research focuses on cause-and-effect relationships.
What is true?
True or False: Integrity is the term for honesty regulated by someone's sense of right and wrong.
What is true?
True or False: In the Middle Ages, the main treatment for mental illness was medication.
What is false? (It was exorcism)
What is anxiety?
The "father" of the psychodynamic perspective.
The first step in the scientific method.
What is creating a hypothesis?
Psychologists must (almost) never give other people information about their clients. This is a protection of __________ .
What is confidentiality?
One of the criteria for diagnosing abnormal behavior.
What is (one of)
against social norms?
maladaptive?
harmful?
deviant?
uncomfortable?
Not an example of cognitive processes: memory, perceptions, or sleeping
What is sleeping?
The perspective that believes people are unique and free to make their own choices.
What is humanistic?
Trey is studying sleep patterns. He predicts that teen boys sleep between 2:00 am and 12:00 pm. This prediction is also called a ______________.
What is hypothesis?
In this experiment, researchers withheld syphilis treatment from over 600 participants.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
An example of an anxiety disorder.
What is
phobia?
social anxiety?
obsessive compulsive disorder?
Julie is in therapy to reduce her fear of heights. Her therapist is working on which goal of psychology?
What is control?
The perspective greatly influenced by cultural diversity.
What is sociocultural?
Nora is studying video games and aggression. She counts the number of times player insult other players while gaming. This stage of research is: collecting _______ .
What is data?
In this study, a little boy was conditioned to fear rats and other small animals.
What is "Little Albert"?
Causes bodily symptoms including pain; symptoms usually have no physical cause.
What is somatic symptom disorder?
Something psychologists study that cannot be measured or observed. Love is an example.
What is a psychological construct?
This perspective focuses on how people process, store, and use information.
What is cognitive?
A survey, naturalistic observation, experiment, correlational study, etc.
What is study design?
To test obedience, participants were instructed to shock another person in this study.
What is the Milgram Study?
The most controversial of the dissociative disorders.
What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?