History and Approaches
This approach to psychological study is based on observation and experimentation
What is Empiricism?
The difference between counseling and clinical psychologists can be described as this.
What is stress/relationship management v.s. diagnosing and treating mental illness?
Someone who says "I knew it all along" would be falling victim to this phenomenon.
What is Hindsight bias?
This is the name of a variable that is out of the experimenter's control and affects the results of the experiment.
What is the confounding variable/Third Variable Problem?
The Third Variable problem is the language of the term that will be used on the AP exam.
After deception is used in an experiment, the experimenter must conduct this procedure to ensure the experiment meets ethical guidelines.
What is debriefing?
Psychology can best be described as the study of these.
What is behavior and mental processes?
A psychologist that works with the law to profile criminals alongside law enforcement would be working within this field.
Someone who seeks out information that confirms what they already believe would be committing this error.
What is confirmation bias?
This effect is the result of someone believing a medication/treatment being administered will help them--so it does, even though the medication lacks any real chemical component to illicit a real effect. This is generated by belief and or being deceived about the treatment.
This p-value indicates a statistically significant data set--and is a result of this test.
What is x<.05(or equal to) and the t-test?
This approach to psychology focuses primarily on the study of the brain, neurotransmitters, hormones, drugs and genetics.
What is neurobiological?
This type of psychologist would be hired to improve workplace productivity and enhance a corporate working environment.
What is an industrial-organizational psychologist?
An explanation based on evidence that predicts behavior or events.
What is a theory?
This procedure describes when both the experimenter and the participants are unaware of who belongs to the experimental group and the control group.
What is a double-blind procedure?
Rather than mean, this is a better measure of a true center of data.
What is the median?
A psychologist that examines observable human behavior would be utilizing this approach.
This is the name for a professional that works with students to traverse difficulties in learning and behavior in a scholastic setting.
What is a school psychologist?
This type study compiles data from various previous studies in order to extrapolate a more concrete conclusion or correlation.
What is a meta-analysis?
This is the exact description of how variables are measured in experiments.
What is the operational definition?
This is a means of examining on a graph the dispersion of data points by average differences in the values of the variables.
What is standard deviation?
What is humanistic?
This is the key difference between a clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist.
What is psychiatrists have a medical degree for prescribing medication?
The difference between random assignment and random sample can best be described as this.
What is:
Random assignment--the assigning of participants in an experiment to either the control or experimental group.
Random sample--in a survey, where each person in a population has an equal chance of being selected to participate
In our reflex demonstration between Maya and Jack, this was the operational definition of the reaction time.
What is the measurement where their fingers caught the ruler?
This is when subjects change their behavior in an experiment to anticipate what the observer might deem as "correct" behavior or to make themselves appear good.
What is the Hawthorne effect?