Research methods
Figures in Psychology
Approaches to Psychology
Subfields/Careers in Psychology
Types of studies
100
What does standard deviation represent?
How much the data varies from the mean?
100
Who created Behaviorism?
John B. Watson and BF Skinner
100
Which approach assumes Behavior is based on our thoughts and how we interpret events.
Cognitive
100
What would a Developmental Psychologist do?
study the development of people of the course of a lifetime
100
Sigmund Freud describing the experience of individual patients dealing with hysteria in detail would be an example of
Case study
200
an r value of 0.3 shows what kind of relationship 
No relation
200
What approach was William James responsible for establishing?
Functionalist
200
Which approach assumes Behavior comes from trying to fulfill our needs.
Humanism
200
What would a industrial -organizational psychologist do?
Use psychology to improve the functioning of organizations and corporations
200
A study that describes the relationship between two things but does not prove causation is
a correlational study
300
How is average calculated?
Sum of data/ number of data points
300
Who went undercover to record conditions in insane assylums ?
Doreatha Dix
300
Which approach had participants describe sensory experiences through introspection and measured reflexes.
Structuralism
300
What would a Counseling Psychologist do?
Help people with common problems, like marriage and family
300
A study with a treatment, controls, and random assignment. This study can prove causation.
Experiment
400
What is the benefit of statistics?
Allows us to make generalizations or draw conclusions about data
400
Who developed the field of Psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud
400
Behavior can largely be explained by biological factors
Biological
400
What would a Psychiatrist do?
Practice medicine to treat a patient (Doctor)
400
Jane Goodall observing Orangutans in their natural habitat to determine dominance behavior
Naturalistic observation
500
Which organization is responsible for ethics in psychology
American Psychological Organization and Internal review board in universities
500
Who created the first laboratory for Psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
500
Behavior comes from unconscious drives and childhood experiences
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalysis
500
What type of psychologist would be responsible for measuring intellegence?
Pyschometric
500
What method allows you to use the largest sample size?
Surveys