Psychological Approaches
This is how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences
What is biological psychology
The "Father" of Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
Hypothesis
An observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles
Case Study
The score in the middle?
Median
This is how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures
What is socio-cultural psychology
The controversial ideas of this famed personality theorist and therapist have influenced humanity's self-understanding.
Sigmund Freud
Repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other participants and circumstances
Replication
observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation
Naturalistic Observation
What statistical term tells us how much scores vary around the mean score in a distribution?
Standard Deviation
This style is how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conficts
What is psychodyamic/ psychoanalytic psychology
John B. Watson
These test subjects are not usually exposed to the experimental treatment
A control group
an experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo
Double blind procedure
Emily got 140 correct out of 200 possible points. What percentage did Tina get on the Exam?
70%
This is how we encode, process, store and retreive information
What is cognitive psychology
A leading behaviorist, this man rejected intro-spection and studied how consequences shape behavior
B.F. Skinner
The experimental factor that is manipulated
Independent Variable
This research method watches people and animals without them knowing, in order to study behavior
Naturalistic Observation
The postexperimental explanation of a study, including its purpose and any deceptions, to its percipients
Debriefing
This is how we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self-fulfillment
What is humanistic psychology
The first woman to receive a psychology Ph.D., this woman synthesized animal behavior research in "The Animal Mind"
Margaret Floy Washburn
A specification of the exact procedures used to measure a variable
operational definition
The research method that shows naturally occurring relationships
Correlational research studies
The average score
The Mean