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
The variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable
What is the dependent variable?
100
the outcome factor- the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable
What is the dependent variable?
200
a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean
What is standard deviation?
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
When this occurs in a distribution of scores, it is better to use the median instead of the mean
hint: Bill Gates is in the room
What is a skewed distribution?
300
This approach studies how we process and store information, and how that impacts our behaviors
Answers questions like: How does 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 correlational study?
300
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?
300
Two ethical guidelines psychologists must follow when conducting experiments
What are consent, debriefing, confidentiality
400
What percentage of scores are within 1 standard deviation of the mean on a normal distribution curve?
68%
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 and whose effect is being studied
What is the independent variable?
400
Name two ethical guidelines psychologists must follow when conducting experiments.
What are consent, debriefing, confidentiality?
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 correlation coefficient? a.k.a. r-value
500
This approach measures how human feelings affect our behavioral impact on meeting our potential.
What is the humanistic approach?
500
The perception of a relationship when none exisits
What is illusory correlation?
500
This research method is the only one that allows the possibility to measure cause and effect.
What is an experiment?
500
When this occurs in a distribution of scores, it is better to use the median instead of the mean
hint: Bill Gates is in the room