Starting Psychology
This is the scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific research.
Psychology
This is the practice of examining bumps on a person's skull to determine intellect and character traits.
Phrenology
He established modern Psychology as a separate formal field of study.
Who was Wilhelm Wundt?
This is the variable that is manipulated.
Independent Variable
This group of professionals specializes in the treatment of psychological problems but may not prescribe medicine for their patients.
Psychologists
The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors.
Nature vs Nurture Argument
This is a psychologist who studied the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences.
Structuralist
This psychologist was more interested in the unconscious mind and used free association and dream analysis to determine behavior.
Freud
This is the variable that is measured.
Dependent Variable
Be fair, do no harm, informed consent to participate, and debriefing are examples of what in research?
Research Ethics
This has to do with an organism's thinking and understanding.
Cognitive
A psychologist who studies the emotional, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that occur as an individual matures.
Developmental Psychologist
This is a psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn based on their response to events in their environment.
Behaviorist
This is a general approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized.
Scientific Method
In a single-blind study, participants are divided into 4 groups. Two of these groups are taking sugar pill, also known as this.
Placebo
This is the pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomenon for its own sake.
Basic Science
This is a branch of medicine which deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders - and can prescribe drugs.
Psychiatrist
humanists who described human nature as evolving and self-directed; believed humans are not controlled by events in the environment or by unconscious forces
Maslow and Rogers
What is an operational definition
A very specific definition designed to model or represent a concept or theoretical definition, also known as a construct.
Any factor that varies in relation to the independent and dependent variable, and in so doing may obscure any effects of the independent variable
Confounding Variable
the practice of using established scientific principles and knowledge to achieve practical goals
applied science
This field was developed by German psychologists and argued that perception is more than the sum of its parts.
Gestalt Psychology
was refused acceptance into Harvard University, but ended up studying under William James, while every other student dropped the class in protest; became a professor of psychology at Wellesley College and the first president of the American Psychological Association
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
Once a theory is reached, this is what other psychologists do.
What is replicate and test the theory?
A psychologist who diagnoses and treats people with emotional disturbances.
Clinical Psychologist