2+ years of graduate study in a subfield of psychology and an internship &/or thesis
What is a master's degree?
100
Early perspective signified by the phrase, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”
What is Gestalt psychology?
100
A technique in which one person is studied in depth to reveal underlying behavioral principles.
What is a case study?
100
When data is not centered around the mean, but instead more to the right or left, it is called _______.
What is skewed?
200
Requires 5-7 years of graduate study in a subfield of psychology
What is a doctoral degree?
200
Early childhood, repressed memories, underlying motivations for behavior
What is psychodynamic, or psychoanalysis?
200
Neither the subject nor the experimenter know who is in the control and experimental groups
What is a double blind study?
200
A visual representation of correlations
What is a scatterplot?
300
APA
What is the American Psychological Association?
300
Focus on observable behaviors
What is behavioral approach, or behaviorism
300
Selected subjects are reflective of the population from which the sample is drawn
What is a representative sample?
300
A graph showing most data centered around the mean has this shape
What is a bell, or normal, curve?
400
A person in the psychology field who can prescribe medicine
What is a psychiatrist?
400
Focus on emory, intelligence, language, learning, problem-solving, etc.
What is the cognitive approach?
400
Assesses how well one variable predicts another
What is a correlational study?
400
A measure of how much scores vary around the mean
What is standard deviation?
500
Describe, explain, predict, control
What are the 4 main goals of psychology?
500
An example includes the bystander effect, where the presence of other people lessens the chances of receiving help
What is the socio-cultural perspective?
500
People first, research second
Informed consent
Deception is justified
Participants are free to go whenever
Protect from harm
Debrief participants
Confidentiality