Seven Perspectives
This perspective places emphasis on genetics, the brain, and neurological factors.
Biological
Identifying information about participants must be protected.
Confidentiality
Errors in the way we think
Cognitive biases
This type of research method requires manipulating variables.
Experimental
Type of study that requires questionnaires to gather information reported by people.
Survey
This perspective was heavily influenced by the theories of Charles Darwin.
Evolutionary
Can't harm participants physically or psychologically.
Protection from harm and discomfort.
The tendency to search for information that only confirms your existing beliefs.
Confirmation bias
This is a long in depth study.
Case Study
What is a potential risk of crappy survey construction (inefficient questions)?
Bias/It affects participant responses
Proponents of this perspective believe that personality and behavior can be explained by looking at past childhood experiences, dreams, and unconscious desires.
Psychodynamic Perspective
Participants have to be given full disclosure about the study and it's results.
Debriefing
When people don't accurately report their behaviors or memories.
Self-report bias
This means that the experiment tests what it was designed to test.
Validity
This occurs when questions are WRITTEN in a way that affects participants' responses.
The wording effect
This perspective emphasizes personal growth and self-actualization.
Humanistic Perspective
Participants can leave a study at any time
Informed Consent
The tendency of people to believe something after an outcome.
Hindsight bias
This is a goal of research that emphasizes that the results of the study can be reproduced.
Replication
This famous psychologist is credited with the psychoanalytic perspective.
Freud
This perspective looks to the role of memory, schema, intelligence, and perception to explain behavior.
Cognitive Perspective
These were some potential ethical violations in the "Little Albert" study
Potential answers: Harm and Discomfort, Debriefing, Informed Consent,
The tendency to be more confident than correct.
Overconfidence
This occurs if the findings of a study can apply to a wider population of people.
Generalizability
Theorist behind the Stanford Prison Experiment
Phillip Zimbardo