Introduction, Psychological lens and Research Methods
The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
What is Psychology?
This governing body oversees all ethical regulations for psychological research in the USA.
What is the APA? (American Psychological Association)
This type of experiment involves no manipulation and only observing behaviors in an ordinary setting.
What is naturalistic observation?
The number you get by dividing the sum of a set of values by the number of values in the set.
What is mean?
This evolutionary perspective is (and was) typically used to discriminate between groups of people. Those in power aiming to control and improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.
What is eugenics?
This field of psychology focuses on observable behavior.
What is behaviorism?
human participants can enter research freely (voluntarily) with full information about what it means for them to take part in an experiment.
What is consent?
This type of experiment involves an in-depth analysis of one particular and (usually) unique individual.
What is a case study?
What is random assignment?
The percentage of trait variation in a group that can be attributed to genetic differences. Leads to innate qualities in offspring.
What is heritability?
In an experiment, one group is meant to serve as a baseline for sake of comparison.
This rule protects all "individually identifiable health information" held or transmitted by medical professionals.
What is the HIPAA privacy rule?
(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 )
Comparing the results of over 50 studies to draw broader conclusions.
What is meta-analysis?
This variable is manipulated by the experimenter.
What is the independent variable?
This body system consists entirely on interneurons. The most important structures include the brain and spinal cord. The brain controls how we think, learn, move, and feel. The spinal cord carries messages back and forth between the brain and the nerves that run throughout the body.
What is the Central Nervous System? (CNS)
A type of treatment based on the theory that our present is shaped by our past. The unacknowledged meaning of personal experiences can influence our mood and behavior, and contribute to problems with relationships, work and self-esteem. There is emphasis on the unconscious mind and childhood experiences.
What is psychoanalysis?
A series of explanations and questions about a completed experiment or undertaking.
What is a debrief?
When research participants try and make a favorable impression, it showcases this type of bias.
What is social-desirability bias?
This variable depends on other manipulations made within the experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
This part of the nervous system's main function is to quiet, calm the body conserve, restore body's energy, and return to homeostasis.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
Approach based on a holistic approach in psychology that focuses on the whole person. Humanists believe that a person is “in the process of becoming,” which places the conscious human experience as the nucleus of psychological establishment.
What is humanism?
This now defunct adoption service infamously carried out numerous twin and triplet studies in the 20th century.
What was Louise Wise Services?
This bias describes the tendency to believe you would have predicted an event after it occurs.
What is hindsight bias?
a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
On Wednesdays we wear this.
What is pink?