People
Often with a cigar, this famous psychologist would probably ask you to tell him about your childhood.
Sigmund Freud
This Perspective is sometimes called the Neuroscientific Perspective because focuses on anatomy and it's impacts
Biological Perspective
The range of the Correlation Coefficient
-1 to 1
Fake medication or variables so subjects do not know which group they are in
Placebo
Focusing on conditioning, this Russian researcher worked with bells and dogs.
Ivan Pavlov
More well known for his study of nature and evolution, this scientist believed that traits could be passed on if it was adaptive.
Charles Darwin
This Perspective focuses on outside factors having an influence, like social status or finances, cultural norms or ethnicity.
Sociocultural Perspective
A type of study that focuses on a study of an individual or small group
Case study
This is the variable being measured in an experiment
Dependent variable
There are three goals of psychologists when it comes to Behavior. Name one of them.
This German professor trained in medicine and started the first formal laboratory for psychology research.
Wilhelm Wundt
This Perspective emphasizes personal freedom, self determination and high philosophical needs. Meaning and purpose are critical.
Humanistic Perspective
Give me a Strength AND a Weakness of Longitudinal Study
S = observation and correlation used/more than one observation done/lots of data
W = Expensive/takes time, subject can leave, confounding variable
This type of statistics infers or generalizes data that can be applied to a larger population
Inferential Stats
Behavior can be anything that Humans .... Name the 3 of the 4 things. Must have 3 of the 4 to get credit. No partial credit and don't ask to get extra for all 4. Being greedy is a human behavior we don't want.
Do, Think, Say, Feel
His prison experiment, while still studied, is a model in unethical practices.
This Perspective is all about thinking and beliefs as a cause of behavior. Thinking that you might constantly feel depressed would lead you to feeling depressed.
Cognitive Perspective
The tendency of people to overestimate their ability for prediction.
Hindsight Bias
This type of experimenting detects relationships between variables, but says nothing about causation.
Correlational Research
Name 4 of 6 things needed to ensure an ethical experiment.
1. informed consent
2. Confidentiality
3. Protection from harm
4. No extreme deception
5. Debrief
6. Right to withdraw
She was denied a degree, but that didn't stop her from continuing her work in the field of psychology leading her to be elected as the first female president of the APA.
Mary Whiton Calkins
This Perspective follows Freudian Ideas and focuses on childhood experiences.
Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic
A Quasi-experiment where the IV can't be manipulated in which we cannot ethically make someone do.
Ex Post Facto experiment
This type of procedure has ONLY the subject unaware
This study looks at how behavior/thoughts vary across different age groups
Cross-sectional