This man was famous for developing the psychodynamic approach- where behavior coms from unconscious drives and conflicts
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100
This approach studies how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences
It answers questions like: To what extent does intelligence relate to our genes?
What is the biological approach?
100
This descriptive method of research studies a person or situation in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles
What is a case study?
100
an experimental procedure where both the research participants and the staff are ignorant of whether participants have received the independent variable, or the placebo
What is a double-blind procedure?
100
the outcome factor- the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable
What is the dependent variable?
200
This man developed the first psychology laboratory where experiments were carried out. He worked with Titchener to use introspection to study the STRUCTURE of the mind
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
200
This approach focuses on how we learn observable responses
Answers questions like: What is the best way to alter a behavior, like smoking
What is the behavioral approach?
200
This research method looks at self-reported attitudes and behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of the group
What is the survey method?
200
the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it
What is hindsight bias?
200
Self-reflected introspection was a technique used by this early psychology approach
What is structuralism?
300
These philosophers believed the mind is separate from the body and continues even after death
Who are Socrates and Plato?
300
This approach studies how we process and store information, and how that impacts our behaviors
Answers questions like How our interpretation of a situation impacts our behavior in reacting to it
What is the cognitive approach?
300
a measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus how well either factor predicts the other
What is correlation?
300
The three methods of central tendency
What are mean, median, and mode?
300
Two ethical guidelines psychologists must follow when conducting experiments
What are consent, debriefing, confidentiality
400
This famous English philosopher and Enlightenment thinker argued that the mind is a tabula rosa- or blank slate- on which experience writes
Who is John Locke?
400
This approach studies how our culture and environment influences our behaviors
What is the social-cultural approach?
400
The experimental factor that is manipulated- the variable whose effect is being studied
What is the independent variable?
400
a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean
What is standard deviation?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
This psychological approach studies how human feelings, behaviors might impact our personal growth
500
A school of psychology that focuses on how our mental and behavioral processes function- how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish
What is functionalism?
500
This approach integrates several approaches to give a more complete picture of a behavior or mental process
Looks at biological, psychological, and social-cultural influences
What is the biopsychosocial approach?
500
The perception of a relationship when none exisits
What is illusionary correlation?
500
A statistical index of the relationship between two things (from -1 to 1)
What is correlation coefficient?
500
When this occurs in a distribution of scores, it is better to use the median instead of the mean
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