Subfields
Modern Approaches
Research Experiments
Stat & Ethics
Miscellaneous
100
This type of psychologists would be most likely to walk into this room right now!
Educational/Learning Psychologist
100
This approach would be used by psychologists to explain why people in the United States tend to walk on the right side of hallways versus the left.
Sociocultural
100
This type of research is done by creating an environment and changing variables that participants are exposed to.
Experiment
100
Mean, median, and mode are what types of statistics?
Descriptive
100
The variable in a study that is being manipulated or changed.
Independent Variable (IV)
200
Jayden is struggling to get over his fear of being hit by a pitch after injuring his jaw. What type of psychologists might help him?
Sports Psychologist
200
These psychologists would justify one's behaviors by their desire for love, affection, and self-actualization.
Humanistic
200
A psychologist wants to examine the effects of growing up in a rural area has throughout someone's life. What type of study would be done?
Longitudinal
200
What type of correlation is shown on the graph?
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Negative Correlation
200
Those participating in the study who are not receiving the manipulation in the experiment.
Control Group
300
A IT company wants to conduct research on productivity of employs in the office versus working from home.
Industrial and Organizational
300
Young students were given the opportunity to learn throw a video, pictures, or story. Which modern approach would likely focus on examining students and their preference in learning?
Cognitive
300
In a research experiment, to avoid further bias, a researcher may choose to not know who is the control or experimental group. What is this called?
Double Blind
300
A statistical measurement that provides the distance a given point is away from the mean. Within one of these, you will find 68% of all data points.
Standard Deviation
300
Precise and predefined definitions for what is being measured in an experiment. This helps future psychologists replicate these experiments.
Operational Definition
400
A researcher wants to examine the impact of age on recovery time and obstacles after hip replacement surgery.
Rehabilitation
400
Explaining or rationalizing a kids behavior because of an experience they had when they were 6 months old.
Psychodynamic
400
This type of research study would be used to examine the effects of COVID-19 on upcoming high school graduates throughout the country.
Cross-Sectional Study
400
This ethical guideline requires participants to be fully informed of the reason for the research being conducted and how their role helped achieve the desired results. This is conducted after the participant has finished in the study.
Debriefing
400
The observing or inferencing of a relationship between two or more things. Most often done through collecting survey data.
Correlations
500
A young man is seeking a psychologist for his recent diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Clinical Psychologist
500
A sleep psychologists attempts to explain humans desire to sleep at night because of thousands of years of running from predators.
Evolutionary
500
A graduate student at Harvard suffered a rare brain condition which allowed him to remember thousands of pages of texts in mere minutes. This is the only known condition of its kind. Which kind of study would be best?
Case Study
500
In the Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the biggest ethical violations committed was...
Physical or psychological harm
500
All 2,100 students at Sussex Central High School was assigned a number and 600 were drawn out of a hat. Those 600 will be the research participants. What is this called?
Random Selection