Miscellaneous
Number of hours of sleep a night and GPA rankings
What is a positive correlation
I focus on how a person thinks-How you take in, process, store, and retrieve information
What is Cognitive Perspective
I study the growth & devlopment of a person from birth to death
What is Developmental Psychologist
This person goes to school for and M.D. and is able to prescribe medication to patients
What is a psychiatrist?
We are not exposed to the independent variable
What is the Control Group
Number of hours of exercise and the risk of health issues
What is a negative correlation
We diagnose and treat people with psychological problems. We compose about 1/3 of all psychologist.
What is Clinical Psychologist
A type of sample in which subgroups of a population are selected to provide more accurate representation
What is a stratified sample
What does a correlation coefficient closer to 1 or -1 indicate?
Very strong correlation or relationship
I study the behavior of shoppers to try and explain/predict what products they might buy.
What is Consumer Psychologist
These are the four goals of psychology IN ORDER
This method allows the creation of a study to follow and track the incoming freshmen class throughout their four years of high school.
What is Longitudinal Study
What is the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning?
Deductive: general premises to specific, guaranteed conclusions
Inductive: specific observations to broad generalizations
Emphasizes unconscious processes and unresolved past conflicts as influences on behavior.
What is the psychodynamic perspective
I help people with life challenges such as job issues, family matters, and marriage and divorce
What is a Counseling psychologist
This type of experiment is the BEST because neither the participants nor the researchers know which treatment or intervention the participants are receiving until the trial is over
This is a method where a single individual or thing is studied in depth
What is Case Study
What are 3 issues/biases that can occur when conducting research?
Volunteer bias
Experimenter bias
Hawthorne effect
Placebo effect
Confirmation bias
This school of thought went against the ideas of structuralism and states "The whole is different from the sum of its parts"
What is Gestalt Psychology
I deal with applying the theories of psychology to the world of work.
What is industrial/organizational psychology