Psychology Basics
Study of behaviour and mental processes
What is Psychology
Three philosophers considered the pillars of psychological foundations
What is Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates
a specific, testable proposition about something to be studied
What is hypothesis
which is the process of watching without interfering as behaviour occurs in the natural environment.
What is naturalistic observation
analyzing rather that simply accepting information
What is Critical Thinking
who use high-tech scanning devices and other methods to study how biological processes in the brain and other organs affect, and are affected by, behavior and mental processes.
What is a Biological Psychologist
tabula rasa means...
What is blank slate
statements describing the exact operations or methods used to manipulate and/or measure the variables in the research.
What is Operational definitions
an intensive examination of behaviours or mental processes in a particular individual, group, or situation.
What is case study
curiosity, skepticism, and humility
What are characteristics of the Scientific attitude
focus on how people are similar and different. They use tests, interviews and other measures to compare individuals on different characteristics.
What is a Personality psychologist
founded the first psychology research laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879.
What is Wilhelm Wundt
specific factors or characteristics that are manipulated and measured in research.
What is Variables
uses a smaller sample to give broad portraits of large groups. also called interview, questionnaire, or self-report
What is Surveys
What is hindsight bias
conduct research and develop theories about teaching and learning.
What is a Educational psychologist
His work and ideas became the basis for psychoanalysis, including a theory of personality, mental disorder, and treatment methods.
What is Sigmund Freud
the degree to which the evidence is consistent and repeatable
What is reliability
the only research method that directly tests cause-and-effect relationships between variables
What is experiment
Effectively organizes, leads to clear predictions, often stimulates research, replicable.
What are characteristics of a Good Theory
develop and use statistical tools to analyze vast amounts of data collected by their colleagues in many other subfields.
What is a Quantitative psychologist
founded the first U.S. psychology lab at Harvard University
What is William James
the degree to which the evidence accurately represents the topic being studied.
What is validity
examine relationships between variables in order to analyze trends in data, to test predictions, to evaluate theories, and to suggest new hypotheses.
What is Correlational studies
process of testing ideas about the world by testing, making organized observations, and analyzing data
What is the Scientific Method