Terms
Any living person or animal
Organism
False science based on reading the bumps of the head
Phrenology
Father of Psych, founded it in Germany
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Wilhelm Wundt
Bonus $300 Consistent relationship between two sets of events or variables. Can be negative or positive.
Correlation
Bonus $$$400 Name all three groups of people who believed a spirit or demon controlled their behavior
Stone Age, Egyptians, Middle Ages
Bonus$$$400 Science that deals with the thinking and behavior of a human/organism.
Psychology
Bonus $$400 Study in which both the experimenter and subjects have no idea who is in control group and who is in the experimental group.
Double Blind Study
Developed branch known as functionalism, found Psychology in the US
William James
Bonus$$$600 Activity that can be observed directly or measured by special tools
Behavior
What group of people become "smart" before we get dumb again. Stone Age-->Egyptians-->________-->Middle Ages.
The Greeks
Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman beings
Anthropomorphism
Bonus$$$600 Research group in which the conditions under study is present
Experiment group
This person believed the body had 4 humors
Hippocrates
What is the independent variable, A student will get a higher score on a test if they studied more.
Studying
Bonus$$$900 Method that involves observing the behavior of an organism under controlled conditions
What is a PRO of this method?
Laboratory or Direct Observation
General principle based on information, that is used to explain what has been learned
Theory
Approach to psychology based on observable behavior
Behaviorism
Person closely associated with Psychoanalysis, looks at your unconscious.
Sigmund Freud
What is the dependent variable, A student will get a higher score on a test if they studied more
Score on test
Psychological approach that studies how people try to achieve their max potential through health and human growth
Humanistic
Bonus $1000. Any branch of study that is based on systematically conducted research
Science
Research method based on gathering such information as family background, home life, school experiences, and health.
What is a Con of this method?
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Case Study
Bonus $$$1000 Psychologist who stated our behavior is learned by observing and imitating others
Albert Bandura
Bonus $$$1500 Name three of the four guidelines for doing experiments on humans.
1. Personal information must remain confidential 2. Must protect subject from psychological and physical harm 3. Subjects have the right to withdraw from an experiment 4. Must debrief subject of experiment afterwards
Bonus $$1000 Name the main disadvantage of each of the following. Natural Observation, Interview method, Longitudinal method, and Cross Sectional method.
Natural= can't control Interview = Lying Longitudinal = Costs and Time Cross Sectional = Different people could have different results.