Research Methods
The term for the steps and processes taken to investigate specific research questions
What is research methods?
This system helps with the fight or flight response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
An example of a sign of infant stress
What is either negative affect (crying, fussing, flat affect), behavioral avoidance/ escape behaviors, kicking/ banging, self-soothing behaviors (thumb sucking, self-clasping, other-touch), or gaze aversion?
True or False a career in psychology is limited to clinical practice and counseling roles?
What is false?
True or false psychology is all around us
What is true?
A prediction based on some evidence (educated guess)
What is a hypothesis?
These two views of emotion compete in the psychophysiology world
What are discrete and dimensional?
2 commonly used methods to measure behavior
What is self or other report, behavioral observations?
The term refers to the scientific study of mind and behavior
What is psychology
Data that you can count or measure with numbers
What is quantitative data?
The entire group of people, animals, or objects that a researcher is interested in studying
What is population?
These fibers take signals from the brain to the heart
What are efferent fibers?
3 tasks of the still-face paradigm
What is free play, still face, and recovery?
An example we discussed on Monday of how psychology is around us specifically referring to the study and application of psychological principles and strategies within the context of retail environments and shopping
What is the psychology of a supermarket?
Your body's ability to keep things balanced and stable inside of you
What is homeostasis?
How a trait/behavior/ variable is related to another?
What is correlation?
This term refers to a coordinated, fully-body responses that promotes survival and includes a subjective experience, physiological response, and behavior
What is emotion?
Yesterday, when we observed infant gaze aversion during the still face, we counted the number of times infants averted gaze during each task. What is this approach called?
A) Event sampling
B) Time sampling
C) Behavioral rating
What is event sampling?
The 2 Greek words the term psychology stems from
What is "Psyche" and "Logos"?
The best way to measure behavior (self/other report or observation)
What is both?
Names of two variables used when exploring a research question
What are the independent and dependent variables?
This dimension of emotion refers to whether an emotion is positive or negative
What is valence?
The infant behavior we can observe that is predictive of later self-regulation and positive adjustment (e.g., social competence, academic performance, mental health)
What is gaze aversion (to distress)?
The type of degree you usually need to become a licensed psychologist
What is an advanced degree (a doctorate - PhD/PsyD)?
The name of the research design method the BABY study used
Double jeopardy if you can name the 4 specific methods we use.
What is mixed methods?
Bonus: survey/self-report, behavioral observation, physiological measurements, and data abstraction using existing databases