The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Psychology
"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
Before performing any study you must first make sure you get this from the subject.
Informed consent
A student watches other students behavior at the football game. This is an example of this type of study.
Naturalistic Observation
When you average a set of data you are collecting this.
Mean
Psychology was born out of what discipline?
Philosophy
"Somewhere along the line my people developed this behavior to survive." This is an example of this psychological perspective.
Evolutionary
Ensuring that a participant is not subjected to any physical or mental distress is covered in this APA ethical guideline
Protection from Harm
Examining one person's unique condition is this form of research.
Case Study.
In the following: 4,4,5,3,2,1,4,4 the number 4 would be what type of dataset
Mode
This psychologist was the first to use talk therapy with his patients.
Sigmund Freud
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
"Hey did you see that Sally McBride did really poorly on her mental health survey?"
This is a violation of this ethical guideline
Confidentiality
This type of study relies on the self reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular population.
Survey
When arranging data from smallest to highest the middle number is this type of data set
median
This psychological perspective is concerned with how the brain processes and acquires knowledge.
Cognitive Psychology
The process of telling a subject the details of an experiment is called this.
Debriefing
A reliable experiment is one that can be this.
Repeated
Pictured here...in a chart where as X goes up Y goes up is an example of this type of correlation. (r = 0.85)
Positive
Observing how students who have different languages engage with each other in a social setting is an example of this psychological perspective.
Socio-cultural
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
In a study, scientists want the population to be this. Meaning reflective of the larger population.
Representative
Dependent
In psychoanalysis, this is the center for unconscious desires
ID
When participants are purposely not informed of the purpose of the experiment.
Deception
This type of sample allows everyone the opportunity to participate.
Random Sample
In an experiment the variable that is being manipulated is called this.
Independent variable