Foundational Figures
This psychologist is known as the father of psychology and created the first lab.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This approach says all behavior comes from brain and body processes.
What is the biological perspective?
Participants must agree to take part in a study.
What is informed consent?
The average of a set of numbers.
What is the mean?
The variable that is manipulated in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
This psychologist developed functionalism and focused on adaptation.
Who is William James?
This approach focuses on unconscious drives and conflicts.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
Keeping participant information private.
What is confidentiality?
The middle value in a dataset.
What is the median?
The variable that is measured.
What is the dependent variable?
This person founded the APA and helped organize psychology in the U.S.
Who is G. Stanley Hall?
This approach studies only observable behavior.
What is the behavioral perspective?
Misleading participants when necessary for research.
What is deception?
The most frequently occurring value.
What is the mode?
Observing behavior in a natural setting without interference.
What is naturalistic observation?
This reformer improved treatment for the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This approach emphasizes growth, free will, and personal experience.
What is the humanistic perspective?
Explaining the true purpose after the study.
What is debriefing?
This measures how spread out data is from the mean.
What is standard deviation?
The specific type of studies that must use a double blind procedure.
What are medical studies?
This journalist exposed abuse in mental institutions.
Who is Nellie Bly?
This approach focuses on thinking, memory, and processing information.
What is the cognitive perspective?
This board reviews research to ensure it is ethical.
What is the Institutional Review Board?
This describes a relationship between two variables but does NOT show cause and effect.
What is correlation?
When both the researchers and the participants do not have the information as to the control that they had been placed in.
What is double blind?