the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes
What is psychology?
100
the psychological perspecive that attributes many psychosocial problems to confilicts between 'acceptable' and 'unacceptable' unconscious exual or aggressive motives
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
100
the type of psychologist who applies psychological knowledge to human problems in the field of law enforcement.
What is a forensic psychologist?
100
a general set of procedures for gathering and interpreting evidence in ways that limit sources of errors and yield dependable conclusions
What is a hypothesis?
100
when participants change their behaviour because of their belief that a treatment has had an effect
What is the placebo effect?
200
critical thinking
What is the ability to accurately analyze information and to draw rational, fact based conclusions based on the empirical evidence provided?
200
this perspective stresses free will, self-actualization and fullfillment
What is the humanistic perspective?
200
these psychologists study the biochemical bases of behaviour, feelings, and mental processes
What are biological psychologists?
200
a general set of procedures for gathering and interpreting evidence in ways that limit errors and yield dependable conclusions
What is the scientific method?
200
to serve as a baseline against which the experimental effect is evaluated
What is the purpose of including a control condition in research designs?
300
to what extent are we controlled by biological and genetic factors (the nature side) or by learning and environment (the nurture side)
What is the nature-nurture controversy?
300
this perspective emphasizes objective, observable environmental influences on overt behaviour and this man's name is most commonly associated with it.
What is the behaviourist perspective and B.F. Skinner (or John Watson)
300
the three areas of development studied by developmental psychologists
What are the physical, cognitive, and social development areas?
300
determinism and the reason why it is important to scientific research
What is the belief that all events are the result of, or are determined by, specific causal factors?
What is the suggestion that fundamental laws determine all human and nonhuman processes and that a researcher's role is to discover these laws.
300
the perspective that uses analysis from the most minute level and the perspective that uses analysis at the broadest, most general level of analysis
What is the biological perspective?
What is the sociocultural perspective?
400
are flexible
can tolerate ambiguity
can identify their own biases
seperate facts from opinions
do not oversimplify
make logical inferences
What characteristics identify a critical thinker?
400
the two psychological perspectives that came before the psychodynamic perspective
What is structuralism and functionalism?
400
four examples of mental processes studied by cognitive psychologists or scientists
What is memory, perception, reasoning, problem solving, decision making and language use?
400
the factor that the researcher manipulates in an experiment-the causal factor
the effect part of the experiment, the action that occurs as a result of the manipulated variable
What is the independent variable and the dependent variable?
400
the difference between a between-subject design and a within-subject design research study
What is a research design when different groups of participants are randomly assigned to an experimental condition or to a control condition?
What is a research design when each participant is used as his or her own control?
500
the four main goals of psychology
What is to describe, to explain, to predict, to change behaviour or mental processes through the use of scientific methods
What is the perspective that focuses on cross-cultural patterns of attitudes and behaviours?
What is the perspective that focuses on the brain and nervous system processes?
What is the perspective that focuses on evolved psychological adaptations?
500
the three most common work settings of psychologists
What is independent practice, academic settings, hospitals, clinics and other health care setting?
500
the five steps of the scientific process
What is initial observation or question, form a hypothesis, design the study, analyze the data and draw conclusions, report the findings?
500
the difference between a strong positive correlation (+1.0) and a strong negative correlation (-0.1)
What is a correlation when one of the variables increases as the other one increases?
What is a correlation when one of the variables decreases as the othe rvariable increases?