History of Psychology
I helped birth psychology:
Wilhelm Wundt
How do we learn to fear particular objects? What is the most effective way to alter our actions?
Behavioral
Studies influences on teaching and learning:
Educational psychologists
The oldest form of research. The researcher examines one individual or group in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles:
Case Study
The middle score in a distribution
Median
I was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology:
Margaret Floy Washburn
How do pain messages travel from the hand to the brain? How is blood chemistry linked with moods and motives?
Exploring how we view and affect one another:
Social psychologists
A descriptive technique for obtaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample:
The average score in a dataset:
Mean
The humanistic perspective was founded by one of these two men:
Rogers and Maslow
How do we use information in remembering, reasoning, and problem solving?
Cognitive
Developmental Psychology
Experiment
Define standard deviation (extra points to your score if you can tell me what percentage of scores are roughly one standard deviation on either side of the mean):
a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score:
68%
Psychology practices empiricism. Define the term, empiricism:
Empiricism is an idea that knowledge comes from experience, observation, and experimentation.
How can we work toward fulfilling our potential?
Humanistic
They are researchers and practitioners who work with people who have lost optimal functioning after an accident, illness, or other event.
A factor other than the factor being studied that might influence a study's results:
Confounding Variable
The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution:
Range
Behaviorism was founded by one of these two men:
Skinner and Watson
How are we affected by the people around us?
Social-Cultural
Name the difference between basic research and applied research in psychology:
Basic research- research that you would find in a lab setting, attempting to figure out why people do what they do.
Applied research- are in real-world settings, taking psychologies principles and applying them to the workplace, etc.
A type of research that detects naturally occurring relationships; to assess how one variable predicts another:
Correlational Research Method
A bar graph depicting a frequency distribution:
Histogram