Psychological Perspectives
This perspective focuses on the brain, nervous system, genes, and hormones.
What is the biological perspective?
A researcher collects information by asking people a series of questions.
What is a survey?
The variable that the researcher purposely changes.
What is the independent variable?
When two variables tend to increase together, they have this type of correlation.
What is a positive correlation?
The most frequently occurring score in a data set.
What is the mode?
This perspective focuses on thoughts, beliefs, memory, and how people process information.
What is the cognitive perspective?
A psychologist studies one unusual patient in great detail over several years.
What is a case study?
The variable that the researcher measures as the outcome.
What is the dependent variable?
When one variable increases while another tends to decrease, they have this type of correlation.
What is a negative correlation?
The middle score after the scores are arranged in order.
What is the median?
This perspective explains behavior through learning, rewards, punishments, and the environment.
What is the behavioral perspective?
A psychologist watches children interact at a playground without interfering.
What is naturalistic observation?
This group does NOT receive the treatment or manipulation and provides a comparison.
What is the control group?
Which relationship is stronger: r = +.25 or r = −.82?
What is r = −.82?
Find the range: 60, 70, 80, 80, 100.
What is 40?
This perspective examines how culture, groups, and social situations influence behavior.
What is the sociocultural perspective?
Researchers examine whether hours of sleep are related to students' test scores without changing either variable.
What is a correlational study?
Researchers use this process to place participants into experimental and control groups by chance.
What is random assignment?
“Don't you agree that our school gives students way too much homework?” contains this type of research problem.
What is a leading question?
Calculate the mean: 70, 80, 80, 90, 100.
What is 84?
Jordan starts doing homework every night because their parent gives them extra screen time whenever it is completed. This perspective would best explain Jordan's behavior.
What is the behavioral perspective?
This is the only research method in psychology that can establish a cause-and-effect relationship when properly designed.
What is an experiment?
A psychologist changes how many hours students sleep and then measures their memory scores. Name the IV AND the DV.
What are hours of sleep (IV) and memory scores (DV)?
A researcher believes social media causes anxiety, so she pays attention only to evidence supporting her belief and ignores evidence against it.
What is confirmation bias?
Researchers obtain p = .03 and are using p < .05 as their cutoff. How would they describe the result?
What is statistically significant?