The assignment of participants to experimental or control groups
What is random assignment?
pg 38
100
An in depth look at a single individual
What is a case study?
pg 31
100
The view that focuses on the roles of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status in personality, behavior, and adjustment
What is sociocultural theory?
100
Most challenges offer us the opportunity to do this
What is grow?
100
Coping behavior that permits people to meet the demands of the environment is called
What is adjustment?
200
A carefully regulated procedure in which the researcher manipulates one or more variables that are believed to influence some other variable?
What is an experiment?
pg 37
200
You can use this to collect scientific data quickly, however, remember that people do not always tell the truth
What is a survey or questionnaire?
pg 31
200
This approach to psychology most clearly focuses on observable responses
What is the behavioral approach?
pg 11
200
In a recent survey of the emotional health of college freshmen, women, on average, had this view of their emotional health than men
What is poorer or worse?
200
In psychology genetic influences on human development refer to this
What is a nature?
300
This type of variable is the variable the researcher is measuring
The DV or dependent variable
300
This type of research allows a scientist to examine the relationship between variables
What is correlational research?
300
This approach to psychology emphasizes unconscious thought, the conflict between biological drives and society’s demands, and early childhood family experiences
What is the psychodynamic approach?
pg 12
300
A recent national survey of college freshmen found that their emotional health was this
What is at the lowest levels recorded since the surveys began in 1985?
300
These are segments of DNA that give rise to our physical traits and biological structures and constitute the basic units of heredity.
What are genes?
400
The influence of the experimenter's expectations on the outcome of the research
What is experimenter bias?
400
An experiment where the participants nor the experimenters know which participants received the independent variable
What is a double-blind experiment?
pg 43
400
This approach to psychology emphasizes the role of free will as a determinant of behavior
What is the humanistic approach?
pg 12
400
A young person is torn between attending medical school to become a physician, which means leaving their fiancé, and maintaining a relationship with the fiancé and starting a family. This person is experiencing something called
What is a role conflict?
400
These are strands of DNA that consist of genes
What are chromosomes?
500
A change in a participant's illness or behavior that results from a belief that the treatment will have an effect, rather than the actual treatment
What is the placebo effect?
pg 43
500
The circumstance in which a variable that has not been measured accounts for the relationship between 2 other variables
What is the third variable problem?
pg 34
500
The term used for the social-cognitive view that people influence their environment just as their environment influences them
What is reciprocal determinism?
500
Overall, about one in this many college students today seek counseling for mental health problems, either before or during college.
What is three?
500
A psychologist focuses mainly on ways in which psychology can help people correct personal problems and cope with stress. This psychologist is using the this approach