Psycho Basics
This science is the study of human and animal behavior.
What is Psychology?
This is a fake substance that seems real.
What is a placebo?
This method uses independent and dependent variables to determine cause-effect relationships.
What is the Experimental Method?
This type of research method is used to observe people or animals in their natural environment.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
This is the independent variable in the following hypothesis:
"Frustration increases aggression."
What is frustration?
To describe, explain, predict, and control behavior.
What are the 4 goals of Psychology?
This procedure is used when both participants and researchers don't know which group the subjects are in.
What is a double-blind procedure?
This group does NOT receive the independent variable.
What is the control group?
This researcher has become known worldwide for her research on chimpanzees.
Who is Jane Goodall?
This is the name of the effect that explains why it takes longer to say the color of a color word than the color of a random word.
What is the Stroop Effect?
Anything you do (like eat, sleep, talk, think, etc.).
What is a behavior?
This term refers to the repeating of an experiment.
What is replication?
This variable is the outcome (effect).
What is the dependent variable?
This can affect what the observer sees or how the observer interprets what is observed.
What is observer bias?
This is the effect that happens when subjects in an experiment work harder because they know they're being observed.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
These types of behaviors (like thinking) are internal.
What are Covert behaviors?
This term refers to the idea that experimenters must define their variables when conducting an experiment.
What is operationalize?
This is the variable the experimenter manipulates (the treatment).
What is the independent variable?
In naturalistic observation, this is one way that the observer can minimize observer effect.
What is concealing the observer?
In an experiment, all variables must stay exactly the same except for this one.
What is the independent variable?
These types of behaviors (like walking and talking) are external.
What are overt behaviors?
This phrase refers to a situation where a condition improves because the subject believes that a fake substance is actually working.
What is the placebo effect?
These are the factors that were unexpected or that the researcher failed to control during an experiment.
What are confounding variables?
This is when researchers project human thoughts, feelings and motivations onto animals they are observing.
What is the anthropomorphic fallacy?
To gather knowledge to benefit humanity.
What is the ultimate goal of psychology?