Goals of Psychology
The four goals of psychology.
What are describe, explain, predict, and control?
These are two of the most popular subfields of psychology.
What are clinical and counseling psychology?
Social and cultural factors influence our development
What is the sociocultural perspective?
Develop a question
What is the first step of the scientific method?
Closely studying the characteristics or behaviors of a person or small group.
What is a case study?
Educators use the principles of reinforcement to increase desired behaviors in students.
What is control?
This type of psychologist works with organizations to improve employee satisfaction, productivity, and improve hiring practices.
What is an industrial/organizational psychologist?
Psychology should focus on behaviors that can be seen and/or measured.
What is behaviorism?
This is used to analyze the data
What is statistical analysis?
Examines the relationship between two variables.
What are correlational studies?
A psychologist studies obedience and reports his findings.
What is describe?
This psychologist may work in a school setting classifying academically gifted students and those who have learning disabilities.
What is a school psychologist?
Human behavior is mostly positive. People try to grow and improve.
What is the humanistic perspective?
In this step, variables are operationally defined. The study is planned and information collected.
What is design study and collect data?
This is the only type of research design that allows psychologists to indicate a cause-effect relationship.
What is experimental design?
A psychologist has been studying factors that contribute to conformity.
What is explain?
Examining physical, cognitive and socioemotional changes across the life span is the focus for this subfield of psychology.
What is developmental psychology?
Behavior and personality are influenced by unconscious conflicts.
What is the psychoanalytic perspective?
This occurs before the research findings are published in a journal, feedback is provided to the authors about their work.
What is peer reviewed?
Researchers are examining the impact of sleep/sleep deprivation on cognitive tasks. Sleep/sleep deprivation is a type of variable.
What is independent variable?
A psychologist has been examining employee morale and ways to improve it. She believes her plan will increase employee morale in most companies.
What is predict?
Examining group dynamics, discrimination, and conformity might interest this psychologist.
What is a social psychologist?
Studying the brain, neurons, and genes helps us understand behavior and mental processes.
What is the biological perspective?
All members of a population have an equal chance of being selected to participate in a study.
What is random sample?
Researchers examine if talking on a cell phone impacts driving ability. Driving ability is measured by driving on a obstacle course. Driving represents a type of variable.
What is dependent variable?