Approaches
Domains
Research Methods
Miscellaneous
People
100
Trys to study conscious experience and its structure using introspection(looking inward)
What is structuralism
100
Conduct research to see how we change from birth to old age to try to understand their cause and effect
What is developmental
100
Independent Variable(IV): variable controlled by experimenter Dependent Variable(DV): variable being observed by experimenter Confounding Variable: any factor that affects DV along with or instead of IV
What is components of an experiment
100
Approach
What is a mindset
100
Focused on the unconscious mind
Who is Sigmund Freud
200
Believes that we can only study observable behavior and explain behavior through learning principles
What is behaviorism
200
This domain uses biology to see how processes in brain and other organs affect mental processes and behavior. This domain is also known as experimental. It conducts experiments on sensation/perception, learning/memory, consciousness, and intelligence.
What is social What is biological
200
Three types of research methods
What is surveys, naturalistic observation, and case studies.
200
What is actually being studied
What is domain
200
Saw the whole more important than the sum of its parts
Who is Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffa
300
Functionalism
What is uses naturalistic observation to study how the mind works in allowing an organism to adapt to the environment
300
Personality
What is studies similarities and differences of characteristics between people
300
Examples of Confounding Variables
What is Participant Expectations, Experimenter Bias, Random Variable
300
Psychodynamic (shaped by biological processes) Evolutionary (based on ideas from Darwin) Humanistic ( studies series of mental events)
What is 3 additional approaches of psychology
300
John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner
What is used behaviorism approach
400
Believes that the whole is greater than the sum of its part
What is Gestalt
400
Clinical Educational
What is also known as counseling, conduct research and offer help for troubled people. What is conduct research and develop theories about teaching and learning.
400
1. Only perform what one is adequately trained in 2. Confidentiality 3. Avoid conflict of interest situations
What is Ethical Principles of Psychology
400
Mode (most frequent) Median (halfway point) Mean (average) Range (difference between increase and decrease) Standard Deviation ( how much number vary)
What is examples of descriptive analysis
400
Focused on introspection
Who is Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchner
500
Psychoanalysis
What is relies heavily on the study of the unconscious to explain behavior study people on an individual bases
500
Focuses on how we think about, relate to, influence, and are influenced by others. Industrial.
What is cognitive. What is it explores ways in which business and organizations can be productive.
500
Methods of Analyzing Data Descriptive and present data; mathematical procedures used to draw conclusions and make inferences.
What is descriptive and inferential
500
How much variables appear to relate r= + 1.00 r= 0 r= - 1.00
What is Correlation Coefficient; positive correlation, no correlation, negative correlation.
500
Used functionalism
Who is William James