A medical doctor that can diagnose physical and neurological disorders and treat them with prescription drugs.
What is a Psychiatrist?
100
A research method that gathers a large amount of opinions or behaviors from a large group of people.
What is a survey?
100
The theory that says in the presence of others, individuals feel less personal responsibility and are less likely to take action in a situation where help is required.
What is Diffusion of Responsibility?
100
This psychologist established the first psychology laboratory, also nicknamed "daddy psycho."
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100
A social science that scientifically studies behaviors and mental processes.
What is Psychology?
200
A psychologist trained to diagnose and treat people with psychological disorders using psychotherapy.
What is a Clinical Psychologist?
200
A psychological research method in which the researcher makes observations of the animal or human in a natural setting.
What is naturalistic observation?
200
The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal.
What is social loafing?
200
Psychologist famous for Behaviorism test.
Who is John Watson?
200
The perspective of psychology interested in the influence of the nervous system, hormones, and genes on cognition and behavior.
What is Biological?
300
A method of exploring conscious mental processes by asking subjects to look inward and report their sensations and perceptions.
What is Introspection?
300
A research pattern that follows a group of people over an extended period of time.
What is longitudinal research?
300
The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present.
What is the Bystander Effect?
300
Created the "shock" experiment to test an individuals obedience
Who is Stanley Milgram?
300
A specific prediction or statement of likelihood that a certain event will occur or that a given relationship will be found between two variables.
What is a Hypothesis?
400
The perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth and responsibility.
What is Humanistic?
400
A substance that has no measurable impact on animals or humans.
What is a placebo?
400
A persuasive technique where people agree to a small request which will lead to complying with a larger request later.
What is the foot-in-the-door technique?
400
Psychologist famous for structuralism experiments.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
400
The researcher manipulates this variable.
What is an Independent Variable?
500
The perspective that focuses on how processing, storing, and retrieving information influences are behavior.
What is cognitive?
500
A method of psychological research in which a researcher brings animals or humans into a controlled setting in order to study effects of variables on their behavior.
What is case study?
500
A hypothesis that states people tend to choose friends and partners that are similar to themselves in attractiveness.
What is the matching hypothesis?
500
Psychologist famous for reinforcement experiments.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
500
Adjusting our behavior or thinking toward some group standard in a attempt to avoid rejection or gain social approval.