Psychology History
Psychology Perspectives
Ethics
Research
Experimentation
100

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

Psychology

100

"Take two of these and call me in the morning." This type of psychologist might treat a patient with the assistance of prescription drugs.

Biopsychologist 

100

Before performing any study you must first make sure you get this from the subject.

Informed consent

100

A student watches other students behavior at the football game. This is an example of this type of study.

Naturalistic Observation 

100

When you average a set of data you are collecting this.

Mean

200

Psychology was born out of what discipline?

Philosophy

200

"Somewhere along the line my people developed this behavior to survive." This is an example of this psychological perspective.

Evolutionary

200

Ensuring that a participant is not subjected to any physical or mental distress is covered in this APA ethical guideline

Protection from Harm

200

Examining one person's unique condition is this form of research.

Case Study.

200

In the following: 4,4,5,3,2,1,4,4 the number 4 would be what type of dataset

Mode

300

This psychologist was the first to use talk therapy with his patients.

Sigmund Freud

300

In "The Office," Jim gets Dwight to ask for an Altoid after hearing a computer ding. This conditioning is key in this psychological perspective

Behaviorism

300

"Hey did you see that Sally McBride did really poorly on her mental health survey?"

This is a violation of this ethical guideline

Confidentiality

300

This type of study relies on the self reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular population.

Survey

300

When arranging data from smallest to highest the middle number is this type of data set

median

400

This psychological perspective is concerned with how the brain processes and acquires knowledge. 

Cognitive Psychology

400

The process of telling a subject the details of an experiment is called this.

Debriefing

400

A reliable experiment is one that can be this.

Repeated

400

Pictured here...in a chart where as X goes up Y goes up is an example of this type of correlation. (= 0.85)

Positive

500

Observing how students who have different languages engage with each other in a social setting is an example of this psychological perspective.

Socio-cultural

500

An experiment by John B. Watson where a 9 month old was subjected to conditioning fear of white objects was called this.

The Little Albert Experiment

500

In a study, scientists want the population to be this. Meaning reflective of the larger population.

Representative

500
When studying the effects of sleep on students tests scores the test scores are this type of variable.

Dependent

600

In psychoanalysis, this is the center for unconscious desires 

ID

600

When participants are purposely not informed of the purpose of the experiment.

Deception

600

This type of sample allows everyone the opportunity to participate.

Random Sample

600

In an experiment the variable that is being manipulated is called this.

Independent variable