A method of psychological research in which a researcher brings animals or humans into a controlled setting such as a lab or room in order to study effects of variables on their behavior
What is an experiment?
100
Focuses on how processing, storing, and retrieving information influences our behavior.
What is cognitive psychology?
100
The procedure used when neither participants nor researchers directly working with the participants know which group is receiving which treatment.
What is double blind?
100
A method of exploring conscious mental processes by asking subjects to look inward and report their sensations and perceptions.
What is introspection?
100
A substance that has no measurable impact on animals or humans; in an experiment testing some form of substance, such as medication, this would be a "sugar pill".
What is placebo?
200
A social science that scientifically studies behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
200
Believes psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes; associated with John Watson
What is Behaviorism?
200
A persuasive technique where people agreeing to a small request which will lead to complying with a larger request later.
What is the foot in the door technique?
200
A research method that studies a topic, a small number of animals, or humans in great detail.
What is a case study?
200
Psychologist who did the famous "shock" experiment to test individual's obedience- whether they would perform a behavior in response to an order given by someone in a position of power or authority.
What is Stanley Milgram?
300
The variable that the researcher manipulates in an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
300
Emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth and responsibility.
What is humanistic psychology?
300
Adjusting our behavior or thinking toward some group standard in an attempt to avoid rejection or gain social approval; Solomon Asch did a famous study involving line lengths to prove this.
What is conformity?
300
A research method that yields information from a large group of people about their opinions or behavior at considerably lower costs than laboratory experiments; often involves questions and statistical analysis.
What is a survey?
300
The theory that says in the presence of others, individuals feel less personal responsibility and are less likely to take action in a situation where help is required.
What is diffusion or responsibility?
400
A researcher measures this variable in an experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
400
The perspective of psychology interested in the influence of the nervous system, hormones, and genes on cognition and behavior.
What is biological psychology?
400
The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.
What is social loafing?
400
A research pattern that follows a group of people over an extended amount of time.
What is longitudinal?
400
"Daddy psycho"; established the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
What is Wilhelm Wundt?
500
A prediction or statement of likelihood that a certain event will occur or that a given relationship will be found between two variables.
What is a hypothesis?
500
The school of psychology associated with Freud that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal and childhood conflicts in determining human behavior.
What is psychoanalysis?
500
The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present.
What is bystander effect?
500
The hypothesis that states people tend to choose friends and partners that are similar to themselves in attractiveness.
What is matching?
500
A medical doctor (M.D.) who has clinical training and can diagnose physical and neurological causes of abnormal behavior and treat them with prescription drugs.