Research Methods
Research that deals with numbers and statistics
What is Quantitative Research?
Who defined the concept of operant conditioning?
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Participants in a study most be knowledgeable about the study
What is informed consent?
A branch of medicine that can diagnose and treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders.
What is psychiatry?
What is the Minnesota Twin Study
OR Who are the Jim Twins
Research that deals with non-numerical data like words, images, and sounds.
What is Qualitative Research?
Psychologist known for his famous "Bobo doll" experiment and developed the Social Learning Theory.
Who is Albert Bandura?
Participants in a study must be told the results of a study after participating
What is debriefing?
A psychologist who usually helps people deal with problem by advising and assisting.
What is a counseling psychologist?
This study was given as an example of the importance of ethical guidelines. A psychologist used baby monkeys to explore attachment.
What is the "Harlow's Monkeys"?
In an experiment, the variable that is being measured or tested.
What is the dependent variable?
The cognitive psychologists that is known for his four stages of childhood development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
All participants in a study must remain anonymous.
Focuses on how humans change throughout their lives.
What is developmental psychology?
This type of psychologist can work in mental hospitals or be apart of social work.
What is a community psychologist?
In an experiment, a variable that is intentionally changed or manipulated.
What is an independent variable?
A behavior psychologist that is know for creating classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Researchers may not do physical or mental harm against a participant in a study.
What is protection?
A psychologist who is focused on understanding how students of all ages learn and how to increase learning.
What is an educational psychologist?
Discovered by Elizabeth Loftus, when someone is exposed to misleading information after an event, that it can alter a person's memory.
What is the misinformation effect?
____________ research does not involve manipulation of an independent variable.
Non-experimental
A developmental psychologist that created the 8 stages of psychosocial development.
Who is Erik Erikson?
At any point in a study, a participant is allowed to leave.
What is withdrawal?
Uses psychological concepts to make the workplace a more satisfying environment for employees.
What is a Industrial/Organizational psychologist?
In Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development, this stage is defined by babies 0-2 exploring the world through their senses.
What is the Sensorimotor stage?