Psychological Perspectives
Which perspective prommotes the belief that the cultural context of behavior is important?
What is Sociocultural Perspective
Research that looks at two groups of people to see if there are any significant differences in rates of a behavior is this type of study.
What is correlational?
According to Freud, most of his patients' nervous ailments were this in origin.
What is psychological?
The expectations of a researcher that might distort or influence his or her interpretation of what he or she actually observed is called this.
What is Observer Bias?
This type of psychology specialist has a medical degree (M.D.).
What is a psychiatrist?
This theory has often been referred to as the "third force" in psychology, beyond Freudian theory and behaviorism.
What is Humanistic Perspective
Which step in the scientific method is first?
What is formulating a question?
According to Freud, what controls much of our behavior?
What are unconscious desires?
If you add up all the numbers in a set of scores and divide by the total of how many scores there are, you are finding this.
What is the mean?
When you describe out loud what you are feeling or thinking you are using this method.
What is introspection?
This is the view of psychology Wundt is known for.
What is Structuralism?
In this type of study, neither the participants nor the researchers know who is part of the control group or experimental group.
What is Double-Blind?
Which researcher is noted for founding the Functionalist school of psychology?
Who is William James?
If you are measuring how quickly someone can recall math facts, but the questions you ask them are about geography, the results will not be this.
What is valid?
This step in the scientific method could be described as writing about the experiment.
What is Reporting Your Results?
This psychological perspective is concerned with the role of the brain in psychological research.
What is Neuroscience?
Case Studies, naturalistic observations, and surveys are best suited for doing this to behaviors, beliefs, opinions, and attitudes.
What is describing?
The story of Phineas Gage is a well-known this.
What is a case study?
Correlation does not equal this.
What is Causation?
This is the ethical code that prevents a psychologist from sharing exciting details of a new study with his spouse.
What is keeping participant information confidential?
This perspective focuses on how we take in, store, and retrieve information, and how our perceptions influence our actions.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
A scientist conducting natural observation is said to be doing this type of study.
What is a field study?
This person founded the first psychology laboratory.
Who is Wundt?
If a chart shows that more than 80% of the students in class received an A or a B on a test, one would describe the chart as this.
What is negatively skewed?
If a test is this it means that it will tend to produce the same scores repeatedly when it is given to the same people.
What is Reliable?