What is the perspective in psychology concerned with how the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of genes?
The evolutionary perspective
100
What is the subfield of psychology that is primarily focused on personality traits?
Personality psychologists
100
Psychologists in this field assess children in educational settings?
School psychologists
100
Name three variables in nature that could potentially form a normal curve.
Height, weight, IQ, etc.
100
Who made the first psychological experiment?
Wilhelm Wundt
200
What is the the perspective in psychology concerned with how the body and brain enable emotions & memories, sensory experiences, genes combining w/ environment?
The biological perspective
200
What is the subfield of psychology that is primarily focused on interaction of people and machines/environment?
Human factors psychologists
200
What career in psychology which applies psychology to legal issues?
Forensic psychology
200
Is the mean or the median more affected by outliers?
the mean
200
Who was the first president of the APA?
G. Stanley Hall
300
What is the psychological perspective concerned with how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information?
the cognitive perspective
300
What is the subfield of psychology that deals with positive emotions and character traits?
Positive psychology
300
What is the career in psychology which concerns methods in the work place, personnel selection, and productivity?
Industrial-organizational psychology
300
Results of an experiment are said to be statistically significant is the probablity of the results happening by chance is less than___%?
5%
300
Who was the first female president of the APA?
Mary Whiton CalkinsÂ
400
What id the psychological perspective concerned with how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures?
Socio-cultural perspective
400
What is the psychological field that studies thought processes?
Cognitive psychology
400
What psychological field studies neurological processes and behavior?
Neuropsychology
400
What type of statistics can be used to determine whether or not the findings of an experiment can be generalized or applied to the larger population from which the sample was selected?
inferential statistics
400
Which of Wundt's students focused on structural elements of the mind and relied on introspection?
Edward Bradford TitchenerÂ
500
What is the psychological perspective concerned with how human thinking and behavior results from combinations of biological, psychological, and social factors
The Biopsychosocial perspective
500
What is the field of psychology that requires an M.D., but they can prescribe drugs and treat emotional and behavioral disorders?
Psychiatrists
500
What career in psychology is concerned with methods, measurements, and techniques for studying psychological phenomenons?
Psychometric and quantitative psychology
500
Approximitely ___% falls within one standard deviation of the normal bell curve?
68(.26)%
500
Name two of the major parts of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis?
Unconscious, Emotional Responses to childhood experiences, repression, Dream analysis