Perspectives
This perspective focuses on human growth and change over time
What is the developmental approach?
People tend to think this is the best explanation of behaviors or issues, but in psychology, it rarely is the best explanation
What common sense?
Psychologists form one of these before they conduct their experiment
What is a hypothesis?
This variable remains constant in an experiment.
What is the independence variable?
Psychology has its roots in this ancient Mediterranean civilization
What is Greece?
This perspective views the mind as a product of the brain and its processes
What is the biological perspective?
When you question the credentials of the person making a claim, you are asking this about the claim
What is the source?
Psychologists might use this method to determine a group of people's attitudes, perspectives, or opinions on a subject
What is a survey?
This variable is manipulated in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
This is the meaning of psyche in Greek
What is "mind?"
This perspective started with Sigmund Freud
What is the whole-person perspective?
It is important for psychologists to use these when approaching an issue or subject
What are multiple perspectives?
If murders and ice cream sales both rose at the same rate, you could describe the trend as this
What is a positive correlation?
If ice cream sales decreased as murders increased then you could describe the trend as this
What is negative correlation?
This individual founded the first psychology laboratory in Germany in 1879
This perspective doesn't live up to the name "psychology," but its practitioners think they are solving one of the field's biggest issues
What is behaviorism?
These are instances of poor reasoning and bad logic
What are fallacies?
This unique type of research takes an in-depth look at a single patient or a small group of patients with an unusual or rare problem, condition, or talent.
What is a case study?
In order to precisely determine how a hypothesis will be tested, psychologists form these clear descriptions of all aspects of their study
What are operational definitions?
This philosophical theory holds that mind and body are separate entities.
What is dualism?
This variation of the cognitive perspective focuses on how humans perceive conceptual wholes.
What is Gestalt psychology?
This form of bias can lead us to only remember events or results that confirm our beliefs and to forget when our experience contradicted our beliefs
What is confirmation bias?
This form of study involves observing individuals or animals in their day-to-day lives
What is naturalistic observation?
For a study to be unbiased, it is important to make sure that the test subjects are this
What is randomized?
The powers that psychics claim to possess would be best described as this.
What is pseudo-psychology?