The Early Days
Branches of the Umbrella
Vocabulary
Experimentation, and ethics, and statistics, oh my!
Random all around
100
How would you describe early attempts at psychology?
Mentally ill were treated ill, asylums and lobotomies
100
Focuses on the body and brain that enables emotions, memories and sensory experiences
Biological
100
Scientific Study that aims to solve practical problems
Applied Research
100
Patients with chronic migraines were given a pill that was a sugar pill but were told it could still help through self-healing. Surprisingly, it was still 50% as effective as the real drug.
What is this phenomenon in research
placebo
100
Country is both an island and continent
Australia
200
Francis Bacon created what scientific principles
Scientific Method
200
Focuses on how we learn, examines observable responces
Behavioural
200
Descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth of revealing universal principles
Case Study
200
what is the most effective way to prevent a confounding variable in an experiment?
randomly assigning participants
200
This is one of the only foods that can never go bad
Honey
300
Which Philosopher believed that we had a blank slate with all knowledge?
John Locke
300
Focuses on how we achieve personal growth
Humanistic
300
Idea knowledge comes from experience and observation and experimentation
Empiricism
300
What are some ways that a research has to be to be considered ethical?
A. _do not harm
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B. _maintain confidentiality
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C. __do not unnecessarily invade privacy
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D. __allow participants to withdraw at any time
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E. _provide debriefing
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F. __treat everyone with dignity and respect
300
Mageirocophobia is the fear of what activity
cooking
400
Who is considered the father of psychology
Wilhelm Wundit
400
Focuses on biology affects thinking across situations and cultures
biopsychological
400
testable prediction often implied by a theory
and an if then statment
hypothesis
400
What type of scatter plot is this? Positive, negative or no correlation
Positive
400
What dinosaur is often used as an example to showcase the change of creatures and the evolution of traits due to environments around them?
archaeopteryx
500
What does tabula rasa mean
blank slate
500
Focuses on the natural selection of traits promoted to survival
Evolutionary
500
The factor that is manipulated as the variable whose effect is being studied
independent variable
500
Calculate the mean, median, range and mode
2, 8, 3, 2, 5
- Mean (Average): 4
- Median (Middle):3
- Mode (Most Frequent):2
- Range (High - Low): 6
500
The name of this branch of mathematics comes from the Arabic word for "reuniting"
Algebra