Psychologists
Perspectives
Scientific Method
Statistics
Misc
100

Founded the first psychological laboratory?

Who is Wilhelm Wundt?

100

Deals directly with the body, the brain, and neurons?  

What is Biological?

100

The question you want a scientific study to answer.

What is a hypothesis? 

100

Mean, median, and mode are....

What are measures of central tendency? 

100

research that is purely scientific?

What is applied research? 

200

Theorized Id, Ego, and Super Ego. 

Who is Sigmund Freud? 

200

Focuses on the way humans behave in groups. Cultural norms, values, and traditions. 

What is sociocultural? 

200

How you refine the vague parts of your hypothesis?  

What are operation definitions?

200

A line graph...

What is a frequency polygon? 

200

Looks at the use and purpose of mental processes in interacting with the environment? 

What is functionalism? 

300

Came up with the method of objective introspection...

Who is Edward Titchener?

300

Views the human mind like a computer. 

What is cognitive? 

300

The group that does not get the special treatment. 

What is a Control Group? 

300

A graphical depiction of a normal probability distribution, whose underlying standard deviations from the mean create a curve shape.

What is a bell curve? 

300

The tendency to look for data that supports your prior beliefs. 

Conformation Bias

400

Added the concept of reinforcement to behaviorist theory? 

Who was BF Skinner? 

400

Another,  more contemporary, name for psychoanalysis. 

What is pyschodynamic? 

400

A harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effect.

What is a placebo? 

400

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

What is standard deviation? 

400

A big difference between Psychiatry and Psychology is that...

Medical degree.  

500

She was denied a Ph.D. at Harvard because she was a woman. 

Who is Mary Whiton Calkins? 

500

This perspective emerged out of the Gestalt tradition? 

Cognitive 

500

Variables that you are not intentionally studying in your experiment or test.

Extraneous Variables? 

500

A value that can skew your data set, especially mean. 

What is an outlier? 

500

Phineas Gage is an example of which type of research method? 

Case study.

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