A specific 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?
100
A medical doctor (M.D.) who has clinical training and can diagnorse physical and neurological causes of abnormal behavior and treat them with prescription drugs.
What is a Phsychologist?
100
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 Effect?
100
A research method that yields information from a large group of people about their opinions or behavior at considerably lower costs than laborotory expiraments; often involves questions and statistical analysis.
What is a survey?
100
The perspective that focuses on how processing, storing, and retrieving information influences our behavior.
What is a Cognitive Perspective?
200
In a experiment, the researcher measures this variable; for example, if an experimenter were conducting research on the effects of music on test scores, the test scores wiuld be this type of variable.
What is a dependent variable?
200
A psychologist trained to diagnose and treat (using psychotherapy) people with psychological disorders
What is a clinical psychologist?
200
The theory that says in the presence of others, individuals feel less personal reponsibility and are less likely to take action in a situation where help is required.
What is Diffusion of Responsibility?
200
A research pattern that follows a group of people over an extended amount of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
200
The perspective that believed psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without refrence to mental processes; associated with John Waston.
What is Behaviorism perspective?
300
In a experiment, the researcher compares results to this group.
What is a control?
300
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?
300
The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present.
What is the Bystander Effect?
300
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?
300
The perspective of psychology interested in the influence of the nervous system, hormnoes, and genes on cognition and behavior.
What is Biological perspective?
400
A method of exploring conscious mental processes by asking subjects to look inward and report their sensations and perceptions.
What is Introspection?
400
"Daddy Psycho"; Established the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany?
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
400
Adjusting our behavior of 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?
400
A method of psychological research in which the researcher makes observations of animal or human behavior in a natural setting (rather than a laboratory setting).
What is naturalistic observation?
400
The perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth and responsibility.
What is a Humanistic perspective?
500
In a experiement, the researcher studies the impact of variables on this group.
What is Experimental?
500
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.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
500
The tendency for people in a group to exert less effeort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.
What is Social Loafing?
500
A research method that studies a topic, a small number of animals, or humans in great detail.
What is a Case Study?
500
Psychologist who did the famous "shock" experiment to test individual's obedience-whether they would perform a behavior in respones to an order gives by someone in a position of power or autority.