Foundations
the scientific study of the mind and behavior
What is psychology?
a tendency, inclination, or prejudice toward or against something or someone.
What is a bias?
the difference between the highest and lowest values in a data set
What is a range?
The value that appears most frequently in a data set value
what is the mode?
A method that uses a list of questions aimed at extracting specific data from a particular group of people
what is a survey?
the branch of science concerned with human behaviour
What is behavioral sciences?
This learning theory focuses on the idea that all behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment.
What is behaviorism?
The time that Psychology club meet every other Wednesday
When is 6:30 to 7:30 PM?
a subset of a population used to estimate the whole population
what is a sample?
This method of data collection gathers in-depth information about a single individual or a small group over a long period of time.
what is a case study
anything in the environment that can trigger a physical or behavioral reaction, such as light or sound.
what is a stimulus?
This type of learning occurs when an organism learns to associate a neutral stimulus with a meaningful stimulus, as demonstrated by Pavlov's dogs.
What is classical conditioning?
A type of graphs used to show correlations between two variables
What is a scatterplot?
The number of times the observation has occurred/recorded in an experiment or study
What is a frequency?
This procedure ensures participants are equally likely to be placed in any group, reducing bias.
What is random assignment?
This personality reflects the tendency and intensity to which someone seeks interaction with their environment, particularly socially in the Big Five Personality .
What is Extraversion?
A type of reinforcement that occurs when a certain behavior results in a positive outcome, making the behavior likely to be repeated in the future.
What is positive reinforcement?
an effect where a person experiences improvement due to their belief or expectation that the treatment is effective, rather than the treatment itself.
What is the placebo effect?
a kind of qualitative data that groups variables into ordered categories
what is ordinal data?
This statistical measure indicates the strength and direction of a relationship between two variables.
What is a correlation coefficient
This term refers to the mental process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events, often divided into internal (dispositional) and external (situational) factors.
What is attribution?
A psychological and evolutionary framework concerning the relationships between humans, particularly the importance of early bonds between infants and their primary caregivers. Wikipedia
What is attachment theory?
a quantitative statistical analysis of several separate but similar experiments or studies in order to test the pooled data for statistical significance
What is a meta-analysis?
The value of the probability of obtaining test results equal to or more extreme than what was actually observed, under the assumption that the null hypothesis is correct.
What is the P-value?
This type of sampling ensures every member of a population has an equal chance of being selected for a study.
What is random sampling?