Statistics and Such
Research Methods
The 4 Philosophers
Sensation and Perception
Movies that start with the word Jaws
100
Mean
What is the average of a data set, calculated by dividing the sum by the number of scores
100
The study of people or animals in their normal environment
What is naturalistic observation
100
Pavlov's Dogs are part of which philosophy of psychology
What is behaviorism
100
The two senses that are most closely related?
What is taste and smell
100
The study of behavior and mental processes
What is Psychology
200
Mean, Median, Mode
What are the three measures of central tendency?
200
Name a disadvantage to a case study
What is researchers cannot apply the results to similar people
200
The father of Psychology
What is Wilhelm Wundt
200
The brain's process of organizing and interpreting information from the outside world
What is perception
200
Tendency to perceive objects as reversible
What is Figure-Ground
300
Calculate the range of this set of numbers (5, 6, 2, 4, 9, 8, 5, 4, 5, 2)
What is 7
300
What is the phenomenon in which the expectations of the participants in a study can influence their behavior
What is placebo effect
300
All behavior is dictated by unconscious and repressed memories
What is psychoanalysis
300
the tendency to interpret an object as always being the same actual size regardless of its distance
What is size constancy
300
Images that occur when a visual sensation persists for a brief time even after the original stimulus is removed
What is Afterimage
400
A way of organizing numbers and summarizing them so that patterns can be determined
What is descriptive statistics
400
Sometimes this is necessary to conduct an experiment but you must provide justification for it afterwards
What is deception
400
Mary Calkins did a lot of work in memory and was a part of this philosophy of psychology
What is Functionalism
400
Tendency of the brain to stop attending to constant unchanging information
What is habituation
400
A binocular cue that shows objects that are close moving quickly while objects in the distance barely moving
What is motion parallax
500
The degree to which a test actually measures what it is supposed to measure
What is validity
500
If someone is being filmed for an experiment their behavior may change if they know they are being recorded
What is Observer effect
500
Goals of Psychology?
What is description, explanation, prediction and control
500
the tendency to perceive objects that are close together as part of the same grouping
What is proximity
500
The tendency to perceive things a certain way because of previous experiences or culture
What is perceptual expectancy
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