Psychology/Pseudoscience,Popular Opinion
True Or False? Psi represents the discipline
True
Psychology teaches you how the brain works and also how to use your own by doing what in particular?
Critical thinking
True of False? Research, Statistics, Methods, and Math makes people happy
False, those four words makes people nervous
What are the differences in Positive & Negative correlation?
positive increases in one variable and increases in another while negative increases in one variable but decreases in another.
Explain the "experiment"
A method that allows researchers to find information from descriptive and correlational studies
Relying on or derived from observation, experimentation, or measurement is known as?
Empirical
True or False? Hypothesis is a tip for children to ask why?
False- Hypothesis is a statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena, specifying relationships among events or variables that can be empirically tested.
Methods that yield descriptions of behavior but not direct explanations for why it occurs are known as:
Descriptive methods
Correlational Studies can be described as;
A study that looks for a consistent relationship between two or more phenomena
The behavior that researchers tries to is called what?
Dependent Variable
What were two modern approaches of psychology?
Phrenology & Functionalism
The scientific method requires researchers to expose what to the possibility of counterevidence?
Ideas
What two central challenges does test construction presents
Reliability and Validity
True or False? A negative correlation coefficient indicates that as scores on one variable decrease scores on the other varible decreses
False- negative correlation coefficient indicates that as scores on one variable increase scores on the other variable decrease.
Define Placebo
An inactive substance or fake treatment used as a control in an experiment
What are four major perspectives in modern psychology?
Biological, Learning, cognitive, and sociocultural
True or False? Due to humans being vulnerable to the confirmation bias, the principle of falsifiabilty is often violated
True
Define Validity
The ability of a test to measure what it was designed to measure.
True or False? By using a Correlational Design, we can tell if one variable may or may not be causing the other
False- we may not tell if one variable may or may not be causing the other by using Correlational Design
What are three steps to evaluate findings?
1. Describe them
2. Assess how reliable and meaningful they are
3. Figure out how to explain them to other researchers.
Clinical psychologist is often confuse with what other three terms?
Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst, and Psychiatrist.
What is the fifth strategy to psychology when it comes to students studying psychology more effectively?
Forget about cramming
Bushels of data are produced by?
Surveys
Why can Correlations be hard to interpret when they are meaningful?
Correlations can be hard to interpret because they do not establish causation.
Inferential Statistics are
Calculations that allow a researcher to draw conclusions about how meaningful a result is