Psych Perspectives
Careers in Psych
Research Methods
Research Vocab
Ethics and Misc.
100

Human behavior is motivated by rewards and punishment

Behaviorism

100

A __________ psychologist works in education to evaluate student needs, support mental health, and collaborate with the student's parents

School

100

A ___________ is when you create a questionnaire about a topic, ask people to complete it, and analyze the data

Survey

100

This is the cause, or the thing that is changed/manipulated in an experiment

Independent variable

100

Psychology is the study of human ________ and __________

behavior and mental process

200

Human behavior is motivated by unresolved, unconscious experiences that happened in childhood

Psychoanalytic or Psychodynamic

200

A clinical psychologist is commonly referred to as a______

therapist

200

What's wrong with this survey question: Isn't instagram SO much better than TikTok?

It is "leading," or assumes something that may not be true of the participant

200

A hypothesis is a...

Claim, prediction, statement of belief

200

This psychologist is the most famous and arguably the most impactful; he believed the personality was divided into 3 parts: the id, the ego, and the superego

Freud

300

Human behavior is motivated by family and ethnic traditions

Sociocultural

300

If you need a prescription in addition to receiving counseling, you would see a _______________

Psychiatrist

300

When psychologists study one unusual person intensely

Case study

300

In a _____________ blind study, only the participants do not know whether they are in the control group or the experimental group

single

300

This ethical principle says that it is not okay to hurt people during an experiment

Do no harm

400

Sara is afraid of snakes. A _________ would say that the problem is her thinking patterns and the things she is telling herself

Cognitive Psychologist

400

These psychologists create profiles and help with jury selection in court

Forensic Psychologist

400

A psychologist is watching and taking notes on Burncoat students eating lunch is doing a...

Naturalistic observation

400

X wants to determine whether a new depression medication alleviates symptoms of depression and creates a study. The dependent variable is....

Depression symptoms

400

In this famous unethical experiment, one group of participants physically assaulted another group of participants. 

The Stanford Prison Experiment

500

In this perspective, people are motivated by a desire to become the best version of themselves they can be.

Humanistic
500

When Simone Biles had a mental block (the "twisties") at the 2020 olympics in Tokyo, working with a ________helped her work through it.

Sports Psychologist

500

In this method, psychologists expose a group of participants to a variable to measure against a hypothesis:

Research Experiment
500

The placebo effect can only happen in the.... (choose one: experimental group or the control group)

The control group

500

The main takeaway of the Stanley Milgrim Obedience study (aside from how unethical it was) is that...

Normal people will do extreme things just because an authority figure tells them to.