What does standard deviation represent?
How much the data varies from the mean?
Who created Behaviorism?
John B. Watson and BF Skinner
Which approach assumes Behavior is based on our thoughts and how we interpret events.
Cognitive
What would a Developmental Psychologist do?
study the development of people of the course of a lifetime
Sigmund Freud describing the experience of individual patients dealing with hysteria in detail would be an example of
Case study
an r value of 0.3 shows what kind of relationship
No relation
What approach was William James responsible for establishing?
Functionalist
Which approach assumes Behavior comes from trying to fulfill our needs.
Humanism
What would a industrial -organizational psychologist do?
Use psychology to improve the functioning of organizations and corporations
A study that describes the relationship between two things but does not prove causation is
a correlational study
How is average calculated?
Sum of data/ number of data points
Who went undercover to record conditions in insane assylums ?
Doreatha Dix
Which approach had participants describe sensory experiences through introspection and measured reflexes.
Structuralism
What would a Counseling Psychologist do?
Help people with common problems, like marriage and family
A study with a treatment, controls, and random assignment. This study can prove causation.
Experiment
What is the benefit of statistics?
Allows us to make generalizations or draw conclusions about data
Who developed the field of Psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud
Behavior can largely be explained by biological factors
Biological
What would a Psychiatrist do?
Practice medicine to treat a patient (Doctor)
Jane Goodall observing Orangutans in their natural habitat to determine dominance behavior
Naturalistic observation
Which organization is responsible for ethics in psychology
American Psychological Organization and Internal review board in universities
Who created the first laboratory for Psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
Behavior comes from unconscious drives and childhood experiences
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalysis
What type of psychologist would be responsible for measuring intellegence?
Pyschometric
What method allows you to use the largest sample size?
Surveys