perspective and
psychologists
psychologists
What is biopsychosocial perspective?
the process of using multiple perspectives to explain a single behavior or mental process
Psychology is the study of what?
behaviors and mental processes
how do statistics tend to be presented in psychology?
in graphs, histograms and bar charts
Can you intervene in a naturalistic observation?
no, you can't
why are blinds good in an experiment?
they prevent bias
What is the cognitive perspective?
It says that responses are influenced by thoughts, attitudes, memories, and expectations.
Psychology was built on _____ and _____.
philosophy and physiology
What causes a data group to become skewed?
outliers
What does empirical mean?
measurable and observable
what is a dependent variable and what is an independent variable?
dependent- the result, what the researcher gets
independent- the treatment, what the researcher does
Humanistic
Psychoanalytical theory turned into what perspective?
Psychodynamic
what does statistics help to do?
turn data into information
they're time consuming and subjects may not represent all of humanity accurately
what is a confounding variable?
A variable that is not accounted for in the experiment
What is a study that used sociocultural theory principles?
Zimbardo's Prison Simulation
How many historical perspectives are there and how many modern perspectives are there?
historical- 3 (structuralism, psychoanalytical, functionalism)
modern- 8 (psychodynamic, behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, biological, evolutionary, socioculture, biopsychosocial)
what is used to measure a score's distance from the mean?
z-score
whats the difference between cross-sectional and longitudinal study?
cross sectional compares two groups at one time and longitudinal is one group for a long period of time
What is the difference between random assignment and random selection?
random selection is each person has the same chance of being chosen and random assignment is each person has the same chance of being placed in a certain group.
The psychologists tied with behavioral perspective are _____, _____, and _____.
Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner
Who is the founder of the field of psychology and what was their perspective?
Wundt and structuralism
Name three descriptive statistics
mean, median. mode
-1 and 1
Name two ethical guidelines
-need to take care of patients
-give informed consent
-debrief after the experiment
-information kept confidential
-subjects can quit/stop at any time