The Field of Psych
It is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is Psychology?
Moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
What is Ethics?
The first step in the Scientific Method.
What is asking a Question?
A branch of mathematics that enables researchers to organize the data they collect.
What is Statistics?
These individuals seek to describe, explain, predict and influence behavior.
What are Psychologists?
*Name an unethical experiment and what happened in it*
The Bobodoll experiment, the Homosexual Aversion Therapy Experiment, The Third Wave Experiment, The Milgram Experiment, etc.
A proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth; often times called an educated guess.
What is a Hypothesis?
A treatment, such as a drug or injection, that resembles a medical treatment, but has no effect.
What is a Placebo?
A psychologist that thinks most of your feelings come from a hidden place in your mind called the unconscious. (Freud)
What is a Psychoanalyst?
The pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake.
What is Basic Science?
When creating an experiment, this group is usually exposed to the independent variable.
What is the Experimental Group?
The idea that if a psychologist has certain expectations about a behavior, and then the patient unknowingly acts it out.
What is The Self-fulfilling Prophecy of Psychology?
A psychologist who focuses on observable behaviors while putting feelings to the side. (Pavlov)
What is a Behaviorist?
Discovering ways to use scientific findings to accomplish practical goals.
What is applied science?
When creating an experiment, this group is usually exposed to the dependent variable.
What is the Control Group?
When both experimenters and scientists do not know what is the placebo and the real drug/treatment.
What is a double-blind experiment?
A psychologist that says we have to strive to be the best we can be and achieve “self-actualization”. (Maslow)
What is a Humanist?
A report that was built on 3 principals in order to ensure humans are treated ethically in any scientific experiment.
What is the Belmont Report?
This refers to studying the behaviors of people or animals without the experimenters being seen.
A type of graph in which data is arranged by means of rectangles
What are Histograms?