Area of psychology that investigates the effectiveness of various therapies in treating mental illness.
What is Psychotherapy
100
Advertisers use this type of knowledge source when they hire famous athletes to sell sporting equipment or glamorous supermodels to sell cosmetics.
What is Authority?
100
This section contains only one paragraph and provides a brief overview of the study's purpose, methods, results, and conclusions/implications.
What is the Abstract.
100
Term used to describe the act of lying to participants about the true nature of your study, as Milgram did in his famous 1963 obedience study.
What is Deception?
100
This highly controversial study created a "prison" on an elite college campus and randomly assigned student volnteers as either prisoners or guards.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
200
Psychological research in this field includes studies on the following: prenatal development, elderly populations, and every generation in-between.
What is Human Development
200
These are the three main goals of science.
What is description, prediction, and explanation.
200
The topic specific words you use to search for relevant articles within the Library's online research database.
What is key terms?
200
Before you can begin collecting data from anyone who volunteers for your study you must obtain a signed copy of this form, which gives participants a general idea what they will be doing during your study and also makes them aware that they can refuse ad/or end their participation at any time.
What is Informed Consent?
200
Recent research by Harrar and Spence found that participants' flavor ratings of yogurt were influenced by the color and weight of these.
What are spoons?
300
A researcher in this field of Psychology might argue that similar traits across different cultures are evidence of innate human characteristics, or human nature, inherited from common ancestors.
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
300
The saying "I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes" is an example of someone who probably places more weight on this kind of knowledge source.
What is empiricism?
300
If the CSUS Library does not hold the article you need, you can still obtain a borrowed copy from another University using this program.
What is Interlibrary Loan?
300
CSUS requires that all student and faculty research proposals be approved by this committee in order to ensure that all participants will be treated in accordance with the APA ethical guidelines for psychological research.
What is Human Subjects/Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
300
The belief that dogs physically resemble their owners has been supported by numerous studies but the findings only apply to individuals who own these types of dogs.
What are purebred dogs.
400
Milgram (obediance to authority) and Zimbardo (Stanford Prison Study) are examples of researchers in this area of Psychology.
What is Social Psychology
400
testing a hypothesis using the experimental method involves the manipulation of two or more levels of this variable.
What is independent variable?
400
This section of an APA empirical manuscript is where the author will specifically state whether or not the results supported his/her hypothesis.
What is the Discussion section.
400
Our current ethical guidelines for research is based on this code, which was created as a response to the horrific medical experiments carried out by the Nazis during WWII.
What is the Nuremburg Code
400
Cognitive psychologists in the area of memory research often refer case studies involving this famous patient, a man who was unable to form new memories after Doctors removed his hippocampus and surrounding brain regions in an effort to cure his epilepsy.
Who was H.M.?
500
Your instructor hopes to one day earn a PhD in this field of Psychology.
What is Forensic Psychology?
500
These three criteria help differentiate valid scientific research from unreliable pseudo-scientific studies.
What is systematic empiricism, publicly verifiable knowledge, and empirically solvable problems.
500
This research database is the first listed under the "Search by Subject" Psychology databases link and was also the database we explored during our Library Workshop day.
What is PsycINFO.
500
You must always protect participant's ____ and ____ to protect against your data being directly linked to any particular subject.
What is anonymity and confidentiality?
500
The original "marshmallow" study found that children who exhibited this quality were more likely to succeed in school; although new research has shown that this theory is too simplistic and fails to account for moderating variables.