This person is credited with founding the first formal psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
100
Scientists use this method of sampling to ensure the participants are representative of the general population.
What is random selection?
100
Scientists develop these explanations - based on a large number of observations - to explain principles of the psychological world.
What is a scientific theory?
100
This modern perspective of psychology posits that behavior is driven by unconscious processes.
What is the Psychoanalytic perspective?
100
Even though it is easy to reach this conclusion, this type of research design can never lead to statements of causation?
What are correlational designs?
200
William James an other followers of this theoretical perspective focused on the adaptive purposes of consciousness in their scientific inquiries.
What is functionalism?
200
In experimental research designs, this is the group that doesn't receive the manipulation.
What is the control group?
200
Scientists use this process in an attempt to duplicate original findings to help ensure they weren't due to mere chance.
What is replication?
200
This modern psychological perspectives takes into account a person's larger cultural context.
What is the Sociocultural Perpective?
200
This type of research focuses on solving practical human problems instead of laboratory experiments designed to test or build theory.
What is applied research?
300
This theoretical framework of psychology uses concepts that are difficult or impossible to falsify.
What is psychoanalysis?
300
Researchers often use test-retest or interrater designs , subsets of this overarching concept, to test the consistency of a measurement.
What is reliability?
300
It is often hard to rule out rival hypotheses due to the presence of _________ variables.
What are confounding variables?
300
This perspective, developed by B.F. Skinner and John Watson, explains that behavior is shaped by the environment and that there is no need invoke mental variables.
What is the Learning Perspective?
300
This type of methodology involves watching the behavior of people or animals in their real-world settings.
What is naturalistic observation?
400
Behaviorists such as B. F. Skinner or John Watson used this term to describe the mind as an unknown entity that we don't need to understand to explain behavior.
What is black box?
400
We often think of this concept as "truth in advertising" because it evaluates the extent to which a measure assesses what it is purported to measure.
What is validity?
400
Good researchers use this principle to "shave off" needlessly complicated explanations to arrive at the simplest explanation that does a good job of accounting for the evidence.
What is Occam's razor?
400
This modern perspective states that humans are active processors of information and we can only understand behavior when we know how people think, remember, and solve problems.
What is the Cognitive Perspective?
400
A finding of ______________ reveals that we are 95 percent confidence that the results did not occur by chance.
What is statistical significance?
500
This theoretical framework of psychology underscored the importance of systematic observation.
What is structuralism?
500
In this type of experimental design, neither the researcher nor the participant know if they are receiving the treatment or the placebo.
What is a double-blind study?
500
The correlation that is the strongest out of: .21, -.78, and 0 is _____.
What is -.78.
500
Scientists using this modern perspective of psychology conduct studies focusing on the brain and nervous or endocrine systems.
What is the Biological Perspective?
500
This type of research design spends an extended period of time focusing on either one person or a small number of people.