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?
This can only be used for legitimate scientific purposes and if it is essential for human knowledge.
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?
This person is considered the father of psychology who started the first psychological laboratory.
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 or confidentiality?
Says human behavior is not simply a product of their environment but governed by their potential for growth
What is humanism?
Mr. Feeny designs an experiment to see if room temperature impacts his classes' exam performance. In his experiment, room temperature would be...
What is the independent variable (IV)?
The founder of behaviorism
Ms. Honey designs an experiment to see if exercise improves her students' concentration during long PowerPoints. In her 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?
The 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?
Describe the relationship:
A negative correlation between hunger and concentration
as hunger increases, concentration tends to decrease OR
as hunger decreases, concentration tends to increase
The right of participants who do not wish to complete a study they began
What is right to withdraw?
The technique used by structuralists to study consciousness by training subjects to describe their personal experiences
What is introspection?
Ms. Frizzle only asks her AP students to participate in a survey and concludes students at Walkerville High are given far too much homework each night. What research flaw undermines her findings?
What is sampling bias? (Needs representative sample)
This psychologist studied the misinformation effect famously planting memories in the mind of college students.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
A research design strategy that neutralizes the impact of experimenter bias
What is a double-blind procedure?
The modern psychologist whose controversial, shocking, experiment forced psychology to adopt stricter ethical guidelines
Who is Stanley Milgrim?