Study of therapy that helps you reach your full potential for personal growth.
What is Humanistic Psychology?
100
A medical doctor who has clinical training and can diagnose physical and neurological causes of abnormal behavior and treat them with prescription drugs.
What is a Psychiatrist?
100
The researched studies the impact of variables on this group. (Ex: If an experimenter were conducting research on the effects of music on test scores. The classroom that receives the different types of music would be this type of group.)
What is Control Group?
100
Tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present.
What is Bystander Effect?
100
A method of exploring conscious mental processes by asking subjects to look inward and report their sensations and perspectives.
What is introspection?
200
The perspective of psychology interested in the influence of the nervous system, hormones, and genes on cognition and behavior.
What is Biological Psychology?
200
"Daddy Psycho"; established the first psychology laboratory at the university of Leipzig, Germany.
What is Wilhelm Wundt?
200
Researcher manipulates this variable.
What is independent variable?
200
Theory that says in the presence of others, individuals feel less personal responsibility and are less likely to take action in a situation where help is required.
What is Diffusion of Responsibility?
200
A method of psychological research in with the researcher makes observations of animal or human behavior in a natural setting.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
300
A psychologist trained to diagnose and treat (using psychotherapy) people with psychological disorders.
What is Clinical Psychology?
300
Psychologist famous for his "shock" experiment to test individuals obedience- weather they would perform a behavior in response to an order given by someone in a position of power or authority.
What is Stanley Milgram?
300
The researcher only can measure this variable.
What is dependent variable?
300
A persuasive technique where people agree to small requests which lead to complying to a larger request later.
What is Foot in the Door?
300
A research pattern where date is gathered for the same subjects repeatedly over a period of time.
What is Longitudinal?
400
A social science that scientifically studies behavior and mental process.
What is Psychology?
400
Psychologist that studied the objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.
What is John Watson?
400
Prediction or statement of likelihood that a certain event will occur or that a given relationship will be found between two variables.
What is Hypothesis?
400
Tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.
What is Social-loafing?
400
Procedure used when neither participant nor researchers directly working with the participants know which group is receiving the treatment.
What is Double-Blind?
500
The perspective that focuses on how processing, storing, and retrieving information influences our behavior.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
500
Psychologist who conducted an experiment using lines to test conformity.
What is Solomon Asch?
500
A substance with no measurable impact on animals or humans. (Ex: "Sugar Pill")
What is a Placebo?
500
Adjusting our behavior or thinking towards some group standard in an attempt to avoid rejection or gain social approval. (Ex: Asch- Line experiment)
What is Conformity?
500
Method of psychological research in which a researcher brings animals or humans into a controlled setting to conduct research.