Career
The first degree you can get in the field of Psychology
Associate’s
The word Psyche means:
Mind or soul
What is the placebo effect?
When a person's physical or mental health appears to improve after trying a remedy or method that claimed to do so without actually being effective at treating such.
A correlation can be defined as:
A mutual relationship or connection between two or more things.
The highest degree you can acquire in the field of psychology
Doctoral degree
Dreaming begins in which stage of sleep?
REM
What did the Bobo Doll experiment find?
Children are able to learn social behavior such as aggression through the process of observational learning, through watching the behavior of another person.
This type of Psychology was founded by Freud:
Psychoanalysis.
This subfield focuses on the processes that go on in our brain
neuropsychology
What does the 'Inkblot test' consist of?
A type of projective test used in psychoanalysis, in which a standard set of symmetrical ink blots of different shapes and colors is presented one by one to the subject, who is asked to describe what they suggest or resemble.
The Big 5 Personality Test assesses attitudes such as:
Person extraversion, openness , conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
What is random sampling and what is an important key factor in making sure it's successful?
It is a process of selecting a sample of participants in a random way. Random sampling is important because it helps yield results more representative of the general population.
This career works with operant conditioning to help correct problem behaviors
Behavior analyst
Feeling ignored causes the same chemical effect as what?
Physical / Bodily Injury
This Psychologist emphasized the importance of unconscious motivations...
Sigmund Freud.
What is the purpose of a double blind procedure?
To reduce bias.
List 1 pro/ con of attending a private university and 1 pro and 1 pro/ con of attending a public university
pro/ cons: class size, research opportunities; Con: cost of tuition.
What percentage of the time does the average person's mind wander?
30%
The scientific method can be defined as:
A method consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
If an experimenter wants to see how individuals act in their normal settings, they would most likely conduct a:
Naturalistic Observation