Perspectives on the Mind
The Numbers Game
Correlation Nation
Designing and Experiment
Rules of the Game
100
This perspective focuses on unconscious drives and early childhood experiences.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
100
The branch of mathematics used for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data.
What are statistics?
100
A type of study that looks for a relationship between two variables without manipulating them.
What is a correlational study?
100
The group in an experiment that receives the treatment or manipulation.
What is the experiment group?
100
The ethical guideline that requires subjects to understand the nature of the study and agree to participate.
What is informed consent?
200
This perspective emphasizes personal growth and self-actualization.
What is the humanistic perspective?
200
This measure of central tendency helps us find our average, as in what is my average in this class.
What is mean?
200
A relationship where as one variable increases, the other decreases.
What is a negative correlation?
200
The variable that is measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
200
The ethical guideline that ensures the identity and information of participants will not be revealed.
What is confidentiality?
300
This perspective studies mental processes like memory, problem-solving, and perception.
What is the cognitive perspective?
300
The shape of a symmetrical distribution where most data points are near the mean.
What is a bell curve?
300
This shows what kind of relationship?
What is a positive correlation?
300
The group in an experiment that does not receive the treatment.
What is the control group?
300
A session at the end of a study where the researcher explains the study's true purpose to the participants
What is debriefing?
400
This perspective explores the links between brain, body, and behavior.
What is the biological perspective?
400
The mean, median, and mode are all examples of this type of statistical measure.
What are measures of central tendency?
400
The concept that a relationship between two variables does not prove one causes the other.
What is correlation does not mean causation?
400
Factors other than the independent variable that might affect the dependent variable.
What are confounding variables?
400
The ethical principle that states researchers must take every precaution to prevent harm to their subjects, both physically and psychologically.
What is protection from harm?
500
This perspective examines how culture and social norms influence behavior.
What is the sociocultural perspective?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A measure of how spread out the data points are from the mean.
What is standard deviation?
500
The name for an unmeasured variable that influences both the independent and dependent variables.
What is a third variable?
500
The type of music the students listen to, as in this experiment: A researcher wants to investigate if students who listen to classical music before a test perform better than those who listen to pop music.
What is the independent variable?
500
This group looks over research proposals and either approves or rejects them.
What is the IRB?