Terms
A failure to evaluate claims with sufficient logical rigor
What is Uncritical Acceptance?
School of thought in psychology that emphasizes the study observable actions over study of the mind
What is Behaviorism?
Altering conditions that influence behavior
What is control?
Personal observation of your thoughts, feelings, and behavior
What is introspection?
Data that come from watching participants and recording their behavior
What is observational data?
The parts of the mind that are beyond awareness, especially conflicts, impulses, and desires not directly known to a person
What is the dynamic unconscious?
School of psychology that considers behavior in terms of active adaptations
What is Functionalism?
Comprehensive explanation of observable events
What is a hypothesis?
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What is psychology?
The tendency to remember or notice information that fits one’s expectations, while forgetting or ignoring discrepancies
What is confirmation bias?
An unfounded belief held without objective evidence or in the face of falsifying evidence
What is Superstition?
Study of sensations and personal experience analyzed as basic elements and the first school of thought in psychology
What is Structuralism?
In-depth analysis of behavior of one person or a small number of people
What is a case study?
Established the first psychological laboratory in Germany in 1879
Who is Wilhelm Wundt - the father of psychology?
Allows information about large groups of people to be gathered
What is the survey method?
A type of reflection involving the support of beliefs through scientific explanation and observation
What is Critical Thinking?
An approach acknowledging that biological, psychological, and social factors interact to influence human behavior and mental processes
What is the biopsychosocial model?
Variable manipulated by the researcher in an experiement
What is the independent variable?
Freudian approach to psychotherapy that emphasizes the exploration of using free association, dream interpretation, resistances, and transference to uncover unconscious conflicts
What is Psychoanalysis?
Allows people to convince themselves after an event that they accurately predicted it before it happened
What is hindsight bias?
Defining a scientific concept by stating the specific actions or procedures used to measure it
What is operational definition?
The study of the normal changes in behavior that occur across the lifespan
What is Developmental Psychology?
A form of critical thinking based on careful measurement, controlled observation, and repeatable results
What is the scientific method?
the study of information processing, thinking, reasoning, and problem solving
What is cognitive psychology?
Use of chance to place subjects in experimental and control groups
What is random assignment?