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The science of mental processes and behavior.
What is Psychology?
A way of study involving random selection and control groups to find information
What is an experiment?
Also called the "knew it all along" phenomenon, it stems from a belief that something had been foreseen.
What is Hindsight Bias?
This branch of psychology focuses on how we interact with the people around us and the relationships we make
What is Social Psychology?
These three musketeers are used to describe scores in data.
What is Mean Median & Mode?
This principal states that over time, certain traits will be chosen in this way.
What is Natural Selection
This technique focuses on a single individual or group and is studied very in depth. Freud was fond of it.
What is Case Study?
What is Experimenter Bias?
What is Behavioral Psychology
Associated with its letter sibling, this measures how likely something came up by chance.
What is Statistical Significance?
This is a viewpoint that Psychology should be a science and that it should study behavior without relating to mental processes. Most psychologists agree with the first, but not the second.
What is Behaviorism?
Often confused with experiments, this way of study involves a dependent & independent variable being shifted and watching what happens.
What is a correlational study?
This skewness occurs from failure to sample randomly.
What is Sampling Bias?
This branch of psychology mainly focuses on studying and treating people with disorders.
What is Clinical Psychology?
To go along with one of the three musketeers of score analysis, this is used to measure the variability around that musketeer. It is often expressed using numbers and letters
What is Standard Deviation?
This subfield of psychology studies the measurements of abilities, attitudes, and traits in humans.
What is Psychometrics?
This technique emphasizes letting things happen, and observing from a distance without doing anything.
What is a naturalistic observation?
This branch is mainly focused on how our physical, cognitive, and social aspects change throughout our lives.
What is developmental psychology?
This numerical data allows someone to generalize something about a population, what is the name of the thought and math used?
What are Inferential Statistics?
This is often used in experiments where both experimenters and participants are oblivious to whether a group has received an experimental effect.
What is Double-Blind Procedure?
What is a survey?
A bias that comes from subjective assessments rather than objective assessments
What is Self-Report Bias?
This branch of psychology focuses on optimizing human behavior in workplaces using concepts from psychology
What is Industrial-Organizational (I/O) Psychology?