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How Do You Study?
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The perspective of psychology interested in the influence of the nervous system, hormones, and genes on cognition and behavior.
What is Biological Perspective
100
A method of psychological research in which the researcher makes observations of animals or human behavior in a natural setting rather than a lab setting
What is Natualistic Observation?
100
In an experiment, the researcher measures this variable; for example, if the experimenter were conducting research on the effects of music on test scores, the test scores would be this type of variable?
What is dependent variable?
100
psychologist who did the famous "shock" experiment to test the individual's obedience- weather they would perform a behavior in response to an order given by someone in a position of power or authority.
What is Stanley Milgram?
100
the tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present.
What is Bystander Effect?
200
The school of psychology associated with Freud that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal and childhood motives in determining human behavior
What is Psychoanalysis
200
A research pattern that follows a group of people over an extended amount of time.
What is Longintudinal Research?
200
In an experiment, the researcher studies the impact of variables on this group; for example, if an experimenter were conducting the effects of music on test scores, the class room that receives the different types of music would be this group.
What is Experimental Group?
200
A psychologist trained to diagnose and treat (using psychotherapy) people with psychological disorders.
What is Clinical Psychologist?
200
The hypothesis that states people tend to choose friends and partners that are similar to themselves in attractiveness.
What is Matching Hypothesis?
300
The perspective that believed psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without refrence to mental processes; associated with John Watson
What is Behavioral Perspective
300
A method of psychological in which a researcher brings animals or humans into a controlled setting such as a lab or room in order to study effects of variables on their behavior.
What is Experimental Research?
300
In an experiment, the researcher manipulates this variable; for example, if an experimenter were conducting research on the effects of music on test scores, the music would be this type of variable.
What is Independent Variable?
300
A medical doctor (M.D.) who had clinical training and can diagnose physical and neurological causes of abnormal behavior and treat them with prescription drugs.
What is Psychiatrist?
300
A persuasive technique where people agreeing to a small request which will lead to complying with a larger request later.
What is Foot-in-the-Door
400
A method of exploring conscious mental processes by asking subjects to look inward and report their sensations and perceptions.
What is Introspection?
400
A research method that yields information from a large group of people about their opinions or behavior at considerably lower costs than lab experiments; often involves questions and statistical analysis
What is Survey Method?
400
a specific prediction or statement of likelihood that a certain event will occur or that a given relationship will be found between two variables.
What is Hypothesis?
400
"Daddy Psycho"; established the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
What is Wilhem Wunt?
400
The procedure used when neither participants nor researches directly working with the participants know which group is receiving which treatment.
What is Double Blind Study?
500
The perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individuals potential for personal growth and responsibility
What is Humanistic Perspective?
500
A research method that studies a topic, a small number of animals, or humans in great detail.
What is Case Study?
500
in an experiment, the researcher compares results to this group; for example, if a researcher was studying the effects of music on test scores, the classroom that did not have any music played would be this type of group.
What is Control Group?
500
A social science that scientifically studies behavior and mental processes.
What is Psychology?
500
adjusting our behavior or thinking toward some group standard in an attempt to avoid rejection or gain social approval; Soloman Asch did a famous study involving line lengths to prove this.
What is Conformity?
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