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The Early Days
(Current) Major Schools of Thought
Descriptive Research Methods
Experimental Method
Hodge-Podge
100
He is considered the "Father of Psychology".
Who was William Wundt?
100
This school of psychology, proposed by John Watson, views observable, measurable behavior as the appropriate subject matter for psychology and emphasizes the key role of environment as a determinant of behavior.
What is behaviorism?
100
In this descriptive research method, researchers observe and record behavior in its natural setting, without attempting to influence or control it.
What is naturalistic observation?
100
In an experiment, the group that is exposed to an independent variable.
What is the experimental group?
100
The process of repeating a study to verify research findings is called this.
What is replication?
200
He founded the school of thought, Structuralism.
Who was Edward Titchener?
200
Freud used this term for both is theory of personality and his therapy for the treatment of psychological disorders; the unconscious is the primary focus of this theory.
What is psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic?
200
A descriptive method in which behavior is studied in a laboratory setting.
What is laboratory observation?
200
In an experiment, a group similar to the experimental group that is exposed to the same experimental environment but is not given the treatment; used for purposes of comparison.
What is the control group?
200
Psychology is the study of these two.
What are behavior and mental processes?
300
William James was an advocate for this early school of psychology that was concerned with how humans and animals use mental processes in adapting to their environment.
What is functionalism?
300
This school of psychology studies how human behaviors required for survival have adapted in the face of environmental pressures over the long course of evolution.
What is evolutionary psychology?
300
A descriptive research method in with a single individual or a small number of persons are studied in great depth.
What is a case study?
300
Any condition or factor that can manipulated, controlled, or measured.
What is a variable?
300
The entire group of interest to researchers to which they wish to generalize their findings; the group from which a sample is selected.
What is the population?
400
This early psychologist studied cultural and linguistic bias in intelligence testing during the 1930s.
What was George Sanchez?
400
As touted by Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers, this school of psychology focuses on the uniqueness of human beings and their capacity for choice, growth, and psychological health.
What is humanistic psychology?
400
A sample that mirrors the population of interest; it includes important subgroups in the same proportions as they are found in that population.
What is a representative sample?
400
Factors other than the independent variable(s) that are unequal across groups.
What are confounding variables?
400
The process of objectively evaluating claims, propositions, and conclusions to determine whether they follow logically from the evidence presented.
What is critical thinking?
500
This early psychologist who formulated the evolutionary theory of color vision completed her Ph.D. requirements at Johns Hopkins University in the mid-1880s but had to wait 40 years to receive her degree.
Who was Christine Ladd-Franklin?
500
This school of psychology sees humans as active participants in their environment; studies mental processes such as memory, problem solving reasoning, decision making, perception, language, and other forms of cognition.
What is cognitive psychology?
500
A numerical value that indicates the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables; ranges from +1.00 to -1.00.
What is a correlational coefficient?
500
A procedure in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is in the experimental and control groups until after the data have been gathered; a control for experimental bias.
What is the double-blind technique?
500
An interdisciplinary field that combines the work of psychologists, biologists, biochemists, medical researchers, and others in the study of the structure and function of the nervous system.
What is neuroscience?