Perspectives
Behavior patterns result from what creates reproductive success
Evolutionary perspective
The only method that proves cause and effect
Experiment
Developed psychoanalytic theory
Freud
Describe the correlation:
If more time is spent studying, exam scores tend to go up
Positive correlation
There is a strong correlation between ice cream sales and snake bites. What might be the best explanation for the correlation?
Hot weather is related to both snake bites and ice cream sales
Behavior/personality results from what exists in your subsconcious
Ensure participants have equal chance of being placed in to the experimental or the control group
random assignment
Measured his dogs salivation to the ring of a bell
Pavlov
These are important when researchers want to be able to replicate an experiment
Operational definitions
According to this approach of psychology, maladaptive behaviors continue because they continue to be rewarded
Behavioral
Behavior is not reliant on environment but rather the individuals potential for growth and self actualization
Humanistic
Ms Lowry designs an experiment to see if room temperature impacts her classes' exam performance. In his experiment, room temperature would be
Independant variable
The founder of behaviorism
Watson
A research design strategy that neutralizes the impact of experimenter bias
Double blind procedure
If someone exhibits unique characteristics that have never been studied before, what would be the best method to investigate that individual?
Case study
The most dominant perspective, this emphasizes how humans think and solve problems
Cognitive
Type of descriptive research method that provides an in-depth picture of a single subject
case study
Discovered a specific part of the brain that controls speech that was separate from the language comprehension region
Paul Broca
A test has a mean of 80 with a standard deviation of 4. Which of the following scores is within one standard deviation of the mean?
75
77
86
90
77
If a data set contains a majority of scores higher than the mean, then how is the data distributed? (positively skewed, negatively skewed, symmetrically skewed)
Negatively skewed
How do the biological and behavioral perspectives differ?
Biological = genetics, heritability, evolution, neuroscience, "nature"
Behavioral = learned behaviors through conditioning and the observable influences of the environment on people
Ms Lowry only asks her AP students to participate in a survey and concludes junior and senior students are given far too much homework each night. What research flaw undermines her findings?
Sampling bias
As stimulus increases the difference added to detect change needs to also increase (measured in a %)
Weber (Weber's Law)
Ms Lowry is looking at the final data set from an experiment. Based on the results, p=2%. Would the results be statistically significant? Or were they likely the result of random chance?
The results ARE significant!
If p<.05 (5%) then the results are not random
What ethical violations occurred in the Milgram experiment?
Participants were not informed nor consented to what was going to occur in the experiment
They were not protected from harm