Perspectives In Psycholgy
Which perspective focuses on unconscious drives and childhood experiences?
What is Psychodynamic?
What research method involves an in-depth study of one person or group?
What is a case study?
A teacher calculates the average score of her class by adding all scores and dividing by the number of students. Which measure of central tendency is this?
What is the mean?
Which organization sets ethical guidelines for psychologists in the U.S.?
What is the APA (American Psychological Association)?
Believing you know more than you actually do is ________.
What is overconfidence?
A teacher gives rewards for good behavior. Which perspective is this?
What is behavioral?
Observing behavior in its natural environment without interference is called ________.
What is naturalistic observation?
On a quiz, the highest score was 30 and the lowest was 18. What is the range?
What is 12?
Participants must be told enough about the study to make an informed decision.
What is an informed consent?
Tendency to only search for evidence that supports your beliefs?
What is confirmation bias?
Which perspective emphasizes free will and self-actualization?
What is humanistic?
What kind of study measures the relationship between two variables without manipulating them?
What is a correlational study?
Who is Mr. Velasco Lopez favorite artist?
What is YE?
After a study, researchers must explain the purpose and results to participants. This is called ________.
What is debriefing?
A psychologist strongly believes her new memory training program is effective. While conducting an experiment, she unconsciously smiles more and gives extra encouragement to participants in the experimental group compared to the control group. This unintentional influence on participants’ behavior illustrates ________.
What is experimenter bias?
Viewing behavior as a result of culture and social context is which perspective?
What is sociocultural?
In an experiment, the variable that is manipulated is called the ________.
What is the independent variable?
Which graph shape represents most data clustering around the mean?
What is a bell/normal curve?
When researchers mislead participants about the purpose of the study, it is called ________.
What is deception?
“I knew it all along” describes which bias?
What is hindsight bias?
Combining biological, psychological, and social influences is known as the ________ perspective.
What is biopsychosocial?
What type of variable can unintentionally influence results and needs to be controlled?
What is a confounding variable/third problem variable.
A student’s SAT score is in the 90th percentile. What does this mean about their performance compared to other test-takers?
The student scored better than 90% of test-takers.
What group reviews research proposals to ensure ethical standards are met?
What is the institutional review board?
A researcher distributes surveys about alcohol consumption among college students. Many students underreport how much they drink because they don’t want to look irresponsible. This tendency to alter responses to appear more favorable to others is called ________.
What is Social Desirability Bias