This explains how psychologist view the "why" of our behavior?
What are psychological perspectives?
100
This man opened the first psychology lab
Who is Wilhem Wundt?
100
This is the method best used to determine cause/effect relationships
What is an experiment?
100
This is the statement of what the researcher thinks the outcome of the experiment will be.
What is a hypothesis?
100
This is what happens when person acts differently because they know they are being watched.
What is particpant bias?
200
This historical approach believed that people were blank slates who could be molded through rewards and punishments?
What is behavioralism?
200
This historical approach to psychology that says the perception is more than the sum of its parts.
What is Gestalt?
200
This method uses questionaires and is a cheap and inexpensive way to gather information.
What is a survey?
200
This is the part of the experiments that the researcher changes and is measuring the effect of.
What is the independent variable?
200
This shows the relationship between two variables
What is a correlation?
300
Approach that believes each individual has great freedom to direct his/her own future, and that when all of our needs are met, we want to reach our highest potential.
What is humanistic?
300
This psychologist is credited as inventing the psychoanalytic approach
Who is Sigmund Freud?
300
This type of research method provides lots of detailed information about one person or a small group.
What is a case study?
300
This is the difference between a control group and an experimental group?
Experimental group receives the independent variable the control group does not.
300
Being able to do this with an experiments, shows that the results are valid.
What is replicate?
400
I believe that our behavior is influenced by our unconscious conflicts raised in childhood. I follow this perspective
What is psychodynamic?
400
These two perspectives were the first psychological perspectives
What are structuralism and functionalism?
400
What is one limitation of the case study method of psychological research?
The results for one specific person may not be generalizable.
400
A researcher wants to study the effects of a strobe light on a person's reading comprehension. The independent variable is this and the dependent variable is this
IV = strobe light
DV = reading comprehension
400
This is what type of relationship: The more you study, the higher your grades.
What is a positive correlation?
500
This is how might a psychologist using the biological approach help someone with depression
What is prescribe medication?
500
If you wanted to study the thought processes and perceptions of people, you would study this type of psychology.
What is cognitive?
500
What happens when a researcher is looking for information to confirm their beliefs
What is confirmation bias?
500
Mary is in a test on drugs for depression. She doesn't know that she is not receiving the actual drug but this.
What is a placebo?
500
Researchers use this type of procedure, where they don't know and the particpants don't know, who is in what group. This avoids participant and researcher bias.