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Types of Psychology
Name that school of psychology!
What research type?
Experiment time!
Little bit of this, Little bit of that!
100
American Psychological Association
What is the most well-known/respected organization in psychology?
100
Prescribing medicine to overcome psychological difficulties
What is the focus of psychiatry and the biological school of psych?
100
QUANtitative
Which type of research involves collecting numerical data?
100
Hypothesis
“If I wear celery on my head, then dogs will bark at me” is an example of a what?
100
Nature: genetics Nurture: environment
Describe the stance of both the nature and nurture sides of the debate.
200
Clinical
One half of all psychologists specialize in this type
200
Humanistic
This school of psychology focuses most on building potential and setting goals.
200
Historical
Trends in reading methods, 1950-1990 is what type of research?
200
What is being introduced to an experimental group to cause a response
What is an Independent Variable? Who is exposed to it?
200
Hypothesis Procedure Results Conclusion
Name the steps to the scientific method used in psychological experiments
300
Industrial
This type of psychologists studies the nature of humans at work
300
Behavioral
This school of psychology wanted Billy to focus on shaping and changing his behavior.
300
Correlational
Finding the relationship between creativity and achievement is what type of research?
300
To create a sense of what is normal or expected in a situation to use as comparison to the experimental group.
What is the purpose of a control group?
300
Something unpredictable that occurs during an experiment and alters results.
What is an extraneous variable? Give an example
400
Focuses on the nature of the human consumer and why they buy things.
What does a consumer psychologist do?
400
Cognitive
What school of psychology would help someone with low self-esteem change their thinking?
400
Feel like you're being watched
In research, what is the Hawthorne Effect?
400
Experimental: Those being exposed to people wearing celery on their heads. Control: No celery
In the celery experiment, what group was experimental? The control?
400
Obedience to authority
What was Milgram’s experiment actually testing?
500
Educational settings, community mental health centers.
Explain and appropriate setting where a community psychologist would work.
500
Early childhood experiences, unconscious desires, dreams, etc
Freud and his psychoanalytic followers believed this should be the focus of patient treatment….
500
Directed involves creating the specific environment you want, natural is their “natural” environment.
What is the difference between natural and directed observation?
500
The first traits recognized in someone have a lasting impact (e.g. appearance)
Describe the Halo Effect
500
Before Milgram’s experiment, human rights were violated, now there is a code of ethnics that must be followed.
How have the ethics of experimentation changed since Milgram?