Definitions
Psych Perspectives
Schools of Psych
Research/Studies
Miscellaneous
100
An educated guess.
What is hypothesis?
100
Key assumption: biological processes influence behavior and mental processes.
What is biological perspective?
100
The theory that experiences often remind us of similar experiences in the past.
What is associationism?
100
Factors that can vary, or change, in an experiment.
What is variables?
100
Another name for questionnaire in which people are asked to respond to a series of questions about a particular subject.
What is survey?
200
Scientific study of human behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
200
Key assumption: Sociocultural, biological, and psychological factors create individual differences.
What is sociocultural perspective?
200
School of psychology concerned with the scientific study of observable actions.
What is behaviorism?
200
The group that receives the treatment in an experiment.
What is experimental group?
200
A group of participants are observed at intervals over an extended period of time.
What is longitudinal method?
300
A predisposition to a certain point of view despite what the facts suggest.
What is bias?
300
Key assumption: Perceptions and thoughts influence behavior.
What is cognitive perspective?
300
School of psychology based on the idea that our perceptions of objects are more than the sum of their parts.
What is Gestalt psychology?
300
In a ____, participants do not know whether they are in the experimental or control group.
What is single-blind study?
300
The third step in the scientific research method.
What is testing the hypothesis?
400
A basic truth or law, such as the assumption that you will get better grades if you study more.
What is principle?
400
Key assumption: Personal experiences and reinforcement guide individual development.
What is learning perspective?
400
School of psychology concerned with how mental processes help organisms adapt to environments.
What is functionalism?
400
A substance or treatment that has no effect apart from a person's belief in its effect.
What is placebo?
400
A correlation between the need for achievement and salaries.
What is a positive correlation?
500
Subgroups in the population are represented proportionally in the sample.
What is stratified sample?
500
Key assumption: People make free and conscious choices based on their unique experiences.
What is humanistic perspective?
500
The theory that people can change their environments or create new ones.
What is structuralism?
500
Six steps of the scientific research method.
What is forming a research question, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, analyzing the results, drawing conclusions, forming a theory?
500
Scientists simulate the natural habitat of chimpanzees to observe their behavior in a controlled environment.
What is laboratory observation?
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