Perspectives in Psychology
Explores the unconscious things that shape behavior.
What is Psychodynamic Perspective ?
After the game, a sports fan says they knew their team was going to loose.
What is Hindsight Bias?
2 types of data used to measure things in a research study.
What is Qualitative and Quantitative data?
The process of repeating a study to determine if its findings can be consistently observed.
What is Replication?
The variable that researchers deliberately change or manipulate in an experiment
What is the Independent Variable?
This Perspective considers how behaviors could be adaptations used for survival and reproduction
What is Evolutionary?
Someone searching for information ignores the research that does not align with what they believe.
What is Conformation Bias?
A scale that ranges from "Strongly Disagree" to "Strongly Agree", and is used to tell someones feelings on a particular subject.
What is a Likert scale?
The study measures what it was designed to measure.
What is Validity?
A group that has no special intervention.
What is the Control Group?
This perspective is a study's a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors.
What is Biopsychosocial?
A fan believes they could go out and play better than the people on the sports team.
What is Overconfidence?
A visual representation of Correlation.
What is a Scatter plot?
The Study is consistent.
What is Reliability?
A variable that wasn't accounted for or controlled but still affects the result.
What is a Confounding Variable?
This perspective study's thinking, memory and problem solving.
What is Cognitive?
People respond the way that think would be viewed favorably by others.
What is Social Desirability Bias?
The statistical measure used in Correlational Statistics represented by r.
What is the Correlation Coefficient?
The statement made could potentially be tested and proven false.
What is Falsifiable?
The possibility that another unmeasured variable may be influencing the relationship between the variables of interest
What is the Third Variable Problem?
This perspective was popular in the 60's and it promotes free will
What is Humanistic?
The expectations the researcher has that might influence the results going into the study.
What is Experimental Bias?
Subtle Changes in phrasing or wording of survey questions. This can alter interpretations and responses.
What is the Wording Effect?
A professional organization dedicated to improving human welfare and advancing psychology.
What is The American Psychological Association (APA)?
The Acronym used to remember an Independent variable
What is I.C.E ? (I:Independent C: Controlled E:Effect)