Terms
The scientific study of the mind and behavior.
What is psychology?
Lett the participant know before the study what it is about and what they are going to be asking to do.
What is Informed Consent?
This perspective uses psychological science to identify the causes and treatment of psychological disorders.
What is the clinical perspective?
If the test provides the same or very similar results consistently then it is said to have this.
What is reliability?
True/False: Most scientific studies prove facts.
What is False?
This is when we take an abstract concept and turn it into something measurable.
What is operational definition?
What is External Validity?
This perspective uses a viewpoint to examine how biological factors like genetics, the brain, hormones, and the nervous system influence human behavior and mental processes.
What is the biological perspective?
What is the independent variable?
True/False: Correlation does equal causation.
What is False?
This is when we fully explain the purpose and procedures of the research to remove as much after effect. (occurs after the study is completed)
What is debriefing?
What is a double-blind experiment?
This perspective suggests that a person learns of the rules along with the accepted norms of a society via interacting with other persons.
What is the social perspective?
This is a type of relationship in correlational research when the value in one variable increases while the value in another variable also increases.
What is a positive relationship?
The three areas of the biopsychosocial model.
What is biology, psychology, and social relationships?
This is when we only look at the evidence that supports what we believe is right.
What is confirmation bias?
Case studies, interviews, and surveys are all examples of this type of research.
What is descriptive research?
This perspective focuses on how interactions of thinking, emotion, creativity, and problem solving abilities affect how and why you think the way you do.
What is the cognitive perspective?
State the IV in this example: A student who receives 8 hours of sleep will perform better on their exam.
What is amount of sleeping?
This man created the first documented experimental research in the field of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This is the tendency for people to be more confident in their own abilities, such as driving, teaching, or spelling.
What is the overconfidence bias?
This is the magnitude of the relationship between manipulated and measured variables. It is represented on a scatterplot.
What is effect size?
This perspective focuses on how our social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and moral development change overtime.
What is the developmental perspective?
This is your statement about the relationship of the variables you have selected for your research.
What is hypothesis?
This man created the psychodynamic approach and is mistakenly known as the father of psychology.
Who is Sigmund Freud?