Key Figures
Who opened the first Psychology Laboratory?
Wundt
Observing one person or one group of people in depth?
What is a testable prediction?
hypothesis
Approach that looks at how we store, retrieve and process information?
Cognitive
Gamblers expecting their big break are experiencing the phenomenon...
perceiving order in random events
Who created a hierarchy of needs to help people reach self-actualization?
Maslow
Self reported data?
Survey
Control Group
This type of psychologist looks at how specific traits might have been advantageous and 'evolved' over time?
Evolutionary
What is the statistical index of the relationship between two variables?
correlation coefficient
Who believed that significant childhood trauma impacted people's adult personalities?
Freud
Testing a hypothesis with an independent and dependent variable?
Experiment
In a double-blind procedure...
neither the participants or the researchers know which group is the control one.
A type of psychologist who can prescribe drugs and specializes in mental illness?
psychiatrist
This multilayered (3) approach is commonly used by most psychologist when assessing/examining behavior.
biopsychosocial approach
which Greek Philosopher believed the mind and body were connected?
Aristotle
Acting like a fly on the wall (so as not to change the behavior of respondents)?
Naturalistic Observation
A _______ __________ is a a statement of the procedures used to define research variables.
Operational Definition
Early field of psychology that focused on rewards and punishments?
"Oh I knew they were going to lose all along!"
Hindsight bias
Who introduced the idea of classical conditioning (dog and bell)?
Pavlov
Surveys must contain a random ________________, but experimental groups need random ____________________.
sample; assignment
_________ __________ is a factor other than the factor being studied that might influence a study’s results.
Confounding Variable
Name the two early schools of psychology and explain their differences?
Functionalism --> the role of the human mind plays (the role is more important than the component)
Structuralism --> focus on individual components of human mind
Name and describe at least 2 ethical violation in the Stanford Prison Experiment
ex. Right to Withdraw, Protection from Harm