CSUF Psychology
Research Methods in Psychology
Figures in Psychology
Concepts in Psychology
Psychological Studies
100

Fieldwork hours required for PSYC 495 (internship) 

What is 120 hours?

100

The use of scientific methods in research

What is to observe, predict, test, interpret, and communicate?

100

Known for classical conditioning & experimenting with dogs using a bell

What is Ivan Pavlov?

100

Proposes human behavior is influenced by our unconscious and id, ego, and superego

What is Psychoanalytic theory?

100

An experiment that studied roles and power dynamics, done on a campus

What is the Stanford Prison Experiment? 

200

The current Chair of the Psychology Department

What is Dr. Jennifer Trevitt?

200

A hypothesis

What is a specific, testable prediction about the relationship between 2+ variables?

200

Known for studying aggressive behaviors with a Bobo doll

What is Albert Bandura?
200

Proposes environmental rewards and punishments condition humans more than internal thoughts

What is Operant Conditioning (B.F. Skinner)?

200

An experiment that studies children's behavior and proposed social learning theory

What is the Bobo Doll Experiment?

300

A program that provides mentoring and outreach to psychology majors and student interests in psychology

What is Peer Mentors?
300

A case study

What is: a study designed to observe one person/case over a period of time?

300

Known for psychoanalysis & studying the unconscious mind through talk therapy to understand human behavior

What is Sigmund Freud?

300

Proposes children learn and think differently through four stages of sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stages

Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development

300

An experiment that studied classical conditioning with loud noises and a white rat

What is the Little Albert Experiment?

400

The list of experimental psychology courses 

What is Learning & Memory (302), Sensation & Perception (303), Comparative Animal Behavior (304), Cognitive Psychology (305), and Biopsychology (306)?

400

A research design

What is a plan/roadmap that tells a researcher how to conduct a study & answer a specific question?

400

Known for studying operant conditioning using a chamber and rats

What is B.F. Skinner?

400

Proposes humans have innate goodness, free will, personal growth, and self-actualization

What is Humanistic Theory (Carl Rogers & Abraham Maslow)?

400

Experiment tested how far ordinary people would go in obeying an authority figure to inflict electrical shocks on an innocent stranger

What is the Milgram Obedience Experiment?

500

Tracks the psychology department offers 

What is: Clinical, Gender & Sexuality, Health and Well-being, Industrial/Organizational, Multicultural, and Neuroscience Studies?

500

Correlational designs 

What is: when a study measures 2+ variables and their relationship with one another; does not show causation? 

500

Known for studying cognitive development, showing children's thinking through 4 developmental stages

What is Jean Piaget?

500

Proposes people learn new behavior through observation and modeling rather than conditioning alone

What is Social Learning Theory (Albert Bandura)?

500

Experiment that studied how social pressure from a group can make someone change their correct answer to a wrong one

What is the Asch Conformity Experiment?