Scientific Research
Name 2 of the 3 types of scientific research
Basic, applied, program evaluation
What is basic research
Research for the sake of knowledge/curiosity/learning/gaining information on something
What is psychology?
The study of behavior and mental processes
What would a behavioral geneticist study?
How our genes impact the way we behave
Observing someone without letting the observation influence or change their behavior
What is naturalistic observation?
Program evaluation, applied, basic
Name the third type of scientific research
Give an example of basic research
Observing how many min a day students are on tik tok because you're interested in understanding student social media patterns
Who began the first psych lab in Germany
William Wundt
What is socio-cultural psychology?
How does our social and cultural environment shape how we behave and understand behaviors?
In in-depth look at one example or situation
What is a case study
Develop a hypothesis, test the hypothesis using controlled experimentation, evaluate the hypothesis, change the hypothesis if necessary.
It's a method for doing scientific research that ensures results are provable and replicable.
What is the scientific method?
What is applied research?
Research with the goal of solving a problem
What is bias?
Someone's perspective influencing the outcome of an experiment
What is cognitive psychology?
The way we process, encode, and store information
A written way to collect perspectives/thoughts/opinions
What is a survey?
Something that is provable and not opinion-based; the opposite of subjective
What does objective mean?
What is an example of applied research?
Collecting data on how many hours students are on their phones per day because phone use is keeping them up at night and negatively impacting sleep time and school performance
What is a control in a scientific experiment?
An element of a scientific experiment that remains constant (does not change)
What is behavioral psychology
A formal way to make predictions and create conclusions about behaviors
What is testing
Thinking about the way we think
What is metacognition?
What is program evaluation?
Doing research to find out if a program/habit/or event is actually achieving its intended outcome
What is a variable in a scientific experiment?
An element that can be changed to test a certain hypothesis
What is developmental psychology
Psychological study of the way our behaviors change over time
A way of testing a hypothesis through control of a variable. A way to see how a test subject would respond to a specific stimulus.
What is experimental research