Perspectives
Says behavior patterns are heavily influenced by what enhances reproductive success
What is the evolutionary perspective?
What is an experiment?
Developed psychoanalytic theory
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Describe the correlation:
If more time is spent studying, exam scores tend to go up
What is a positive correlation?
In addition to deception, psychology's other major ethics controversy
What is animal research?
Says behavior/personality is heavily influenced by conflicts buried in your unconscious
What is the psychoanalytic (psychodynamic) perspective?
Process that ensures participants have an equal chance of being in either the control group or experimental group
What is random assignment?
Opened the first Psychology lab
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
These are important when researchers want to be able to replicate an experiment
What are operational definitions?
Publishing a list of participants names with the results of a research study violates this ethical principle
What is right to privacy?
Says human behavior is not simply a product of their environment but governed by their potential for growth
What is humanism?
A teacher designs an experiment to see if room temperature impacts their classes' exam performance. In this experiment, room temperature would be...
What is the independent variable (IV)?
The founder of behaviorism
Who is John B. Watson?
The teacher designs an experiment to see if exercise improves their students' concentration during long PowerPoints. In the experiment, concentration would be...
What is the dependent variable (DV)?
If a study requires you to deceive participants, this must follow the study ASAP
What is debriefing?
Currently the dominant perspective in psych that focuses on how humans acquire knowledge and solve problems
What is the cognitive perspective?
Type of descriptive research method that provides an in-depth picture of a single subject
What is a case study?
The person who classically conditioned dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
In developmental psychology, one advantage of cross-sectional over longitudinal studies is that cross-sectional research
What is less time needed to complete study.
The right of participants who do not wish to complete a study they began
What is right to withdraw?
The scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning
What is Behavioral Psychology?
A teacher only asks their AP students to participate in a survey and concludes that all students in the school are given far too much homework each night. What research flaw undermines their findings?
What is sampling bias?
The first female to earn a Ph.D. in psychology
Who is Margaret Floy Washburn?
A research design strategy that neutralizes the impact of experimenter bias
What is a double-blind procedure?
People must sign a waiver and have a basic idea of what will happen to then during the experiment
What is informed consent?