Careers in Psychology
Professional with a medical degree who treats psychological disorders
Who is a psychiatrist?
The idea that knowledge is acquired through observation
What is empiricism?
Three reasons it is hard to study people
What are complexity, variability, and reactivity?
What is an experiment?
Standards of conduct that investigators are ethically bound to honor and protect participants
What are research ethics?
Psychological professional with a doctoral degree
What is a psychologist?
The tendency to lay down principles as truth, without the need for evidence
What is dogmatism?
When we investigate by watching people in their normal environment
What is naturalistic observation?
A variable that is manipulated by the experimenter
What is an independent variable?
A written agreement to participate in a study
What is informed consent?
A mental health field of professionals who provide services to enlisted individuals or veterans
What is military psychology?
A set of principles about the relationship between ideas and evidence
What is the scientific method?
An in-depth examination of a single individual
What is a case study?
The variable that represents the measurable response by a subject
What is a dependent variable?
An ethical guideline which forbids forcing participation by individuals
What is freedom from coercion?
A mental health field which explores how humans learn
What is educational psychology?
A hypothetical explanation of a natural phenomenon
What is a theory?
A method of investigation which asks questions of people
What is the survey method or verbal report?
The numerical average of data
What is the mean?
A misleading explanation of a study meant to keep people from knowing the true purpose of the study beforehand
What is a cover study?
A mental health field which looks at how people change and develop throughout the lifespan
What is developmental psychology?
A testable, falsifiable prediction
What is a hypothesis?
The measure of the relationship between two or more variables
What is correlation?
The difference between the highest and lowest data
What is the range?
A verbal explanation of the true nature of the study following participation and when participants are returned to their original psychological state
What is debriefing?