Perspectives
behavioral
The variable that is manipulated in the experiment
Independent
research technique in which one person is studied in depth
Case study
Refers to the environment you grow up in
Nurture
Looks at different individuals think at an interpret life
Cognitive
specification of the exact procedures used to measure a variable
Operational definition
study the same group of people over a long period of time
Longitudinal study
Refers to the genes you have
Nature
Looks at cultural norms and role expectations to describe behaviors
Social-cultural
A fake treatment group
placebo
compare individuals from different age groups at one time
Cross-sectional study
Genetic relationships between individuals
Kinship studies
Looks at how different neurotransmitters change your behavior
biological
a variable other than the independent variable that may influence the dependent variable
Confounding
Research method where you watch someone in their natural environment
Naturalistic observation
The principle that, among the range of inherited trait variation, those contributing to survival will most likely be passed to other generations
Natural selection
Looks at unconscious drives and desires
psychoanalytic/dynamic
sample that fairly represents a population because each person has an equal chance of being chosen
random sample
research project designed to discover the degree to which two variable are related to one another
Correlation study
School of thought that focuses on how much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences
behavior genetics