General Psychology
The study of the brain, mental processes, observable behavior, human and animal development and social interactions.
What is Psychology?
Believes human thinking and behavior comes from biological, psychological, and social factors.
What is Biopsychosocial?
is at the midpoint of a frequency distribution, such that there is an equal probability of falling above or below it
What is Median?
are the people or subjects in your study.
What are Participants?
In a study to determine whether how long a student sleeps affects test scores, the length of time spent sleeping is this variable.
This type of psychologist may be called when there is a crime investigation.
An attempt to break down the elements of perception into smaller understandable units.
What is Structuralism?
is the large set of individuals from which a sample was taken.
refers to whether the same results can be produced under similar conditions.
What is Reliability?
An experimenter wants to know- "Do tomatoes grow fastest under fluorescent, incandescent, or natural light?" The amount of growth is this variable.
What is the Dependent Variable?
The federal government conducts a study on alcoholism and depression and finds that a group of Syrian refugees in Idaho has the highest rate of alcohol abuse and depression in the country. The government wants better understand this issue so they hire a(n) __________
What is a Cross Cultural Psychologist?
All types of behavior can be learned through two types of conditioning: classical and operant conditioning.
What is Behavioral?
refers to whether the research measures what the researchers set out to measure.
What is Validity?
A sample that accurately reflects the larger population
What is a Representative Sample?
Jesse notices that the more he studies for a test the night before, the worse he does on a test. This is an example of this correlation.
What is Negative Correlation?
Jimena is frequently hearing voices frequently that don't exist. Her family is concerned for her and take her to a(n) ________.
What is an Abnormal Psychologist?
This school of thought examines human thoughts and behaviors in terms of natural selection.
What is Evolutionary?
Participants do not know whether they’re in the experimental group or the control group.
What is Single Blind?
Neither the participants nor the research knows who is in which group.
What is Double Blind?
Hector wants to know if students at Washington Union score better on a memory test when they eat breakfast. He uses the AP Chemistry class to test his hypothesis. This is the mistake he made.
What is Random Selection?
A clothing company has noticed that employees productivity is down after lunchtime. They are debating on what they can do to prevent this from happening. They've tried making lunch longer, pushing it back later, and even serving different foods. To solve this issue they hire a(n) ____________.
What is a set of theories related to the unconscious mind?
What is Psychoanalysis?
is a statistical measure that indicates the extent to which two or more variable fluctuate together.
What is Correlation?
is a statistic that tells you how tightly all the various examples are clustered around the mean in a set of data.
What is Standard Deviation?
Juan takes an IQ test and scores 2.5 standard deviations below the mean (100). If the standard deviation is 15. What was Juans score?
What is 63.5?