Terminology
The scientific study of thought and behavior
What is Psychology?
A ___________correlation exists when one variable decreases as the other variable decreases, or one variable increases while the other increases.
What is Positive Correlation?
A clinically based approach to understanding and treating psychological disorders; assumes that that the unconscious mind is the most powerful force behind thought and behavior.
What is Psychoanalysis?
These variables get changed and manipulated.
What are independent variables?
Psychologist who introduced the psychoanalytic theory of behavior. Also had a weird obsession with repressed sexual urges.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The tendency to accept certain information as true, such as character assessments or horoscopes, even when the information is so vague as to be worthless
What is the Barnum Effect?
When heroine use increases, grades drop. This hypothesis represents this type of correlation.
What is Negative Correlation?
The 19th century school of psychology that argued that breaking down experience into its elemental parts offers the best way to understand thought and behavior.
What is structuralism?
The group in an experiment or study that does not receive treatment by the researchers and is then used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subjects do.
What is a control group?
Man known as the "father of Psychology."
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The detailed study of the shape, size and bumps of the cranium/brain as a supposed indication of character, personality and mental abilities.
What is Phrenology?
People with the name of Amy tends to have higher IQ. This statement is best represented by this correlation.
What is No Correlation?
A school of psychology that proposed that psychology can be a true science only if it examines observable behavior, not ideas, thoughts, feelings, or motives.
What is Behaviorism?
There are variables that the researcher failed to control, or eliminate which could create an unexpected change in the results of an experiment.
What are confounding or extraneous variables?
One of the founder fathers of Gestalt Psychology.
Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler
The main technique of investigation for structuralists; it involves looking into one's own mind for information about the nature of conscious experience.
What is Introspection?
A number that quantifies some type of correlation and dependence, meaning statistical relationships between two or more random variables or observed data values
What is Correlation coefficient?
A theory of psychology that focuses on personal growth and meaning as a way of reaching one's highest potential.
What is Humanistic Psychology?
A scientist studies how many days people can eat soup until they get sick. __________________IV __________________DV
The independent variable is the number of days of consuming soup. The dependent variable is the onset of illness.
Main proponent for the humanistic approach (emphasizing personal growth), published text "Client-Centered Therapy." Shares the last name of the TV show host who asked "Won't you be my neighbor?"
Who is Carl Rogers?
These are the four goals of psychology. Acronyms and explanation.
What is DUPC (????)
There are similar to line graphs in that they use horizontal and vertical axes to plot data points.
What are scatter plots?
The principal of this psychological perspective is "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
What is Gestalt Psychology?
If a scientist conducts an experiment to test the theory that a vitamin could extend a person’s life-expectancy, then: _________________IV _________________DV
The independent variable is the amount of vitamin that is given to the subjects within the experiment. This is controlled by the experimenting scientist. The dependent variable, or the variable being affected by the independent variable, is life span.
Psychologist best known for conceptualization of the stages of growth leading to personal fulfillment. Best known for his "hierarchy of needs"
Who is Abraham Maslow?