Psychologists
This type of psychologist...
- hires the right person for a job & trains them
- determines working teams
- provides feedback to the workers about their performance
- attend to individual workers and the organization
What is an Industrial Organizational (I/O) Psychologist?
The mind and the body interact but are not the same thing
What is dualism?
If conducting a study, researcher approaches and only recruits students on campus at CSULB
What is a convenience sample?
Jane Goodall spending years observing chimpanzees in the wild, recording their food habits, social interactions, gestures, and the way of life
What is naturalistic observation?
A mathematical estimate of the relationship between two variables
Correlation Coefficient
This type of psychologist focuses on...
- how people make decisions
- solve problems
- convert their thoughts into language
- study expert decision making and why people make costly errors
What is a cognitive psychologist?
A belief that states behavior is caused by a person's independent actions
What is free will?
You want to investigate friendliness so you define friendliness by the amount of times you smile at someone in an hour.
What is an operational variable?
A study of the prevalence of certain beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors based on people's responses to questions
What is a survey?
What is a dependent variable?
- looked at what the mind DOES rather than what it IS
- studied human thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
- asked, "What function might they serve?"
Who is William James?
Childhood experiences, social relationships, and the overall environment shape who you become
Nuture
Recruiting college students from the U.S. and China to participate in a study
A thorough description of someone including abilities and disabilities, medical condition, life history, and unusual experiences
i.e. Phineas gage
What is a case history?
In a study, this set of individuals is treated in the same way as the experimenter group except for the procedure that the experiment is designed to test.
What is a control group?
A field of psychology that concentrates on the observable, measurable behaviors and not on the mental processes
What is behaviorism?
Conscious experience is inseparable from the brain
What is monism?
Every individual has an equal opportunity of being chosen to participate
Random sample
This type of research describes people and their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
What is descriptive research?
As one variable increases, the other variable also increases and vice versa
What is positive correlation?