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fill in the blanks: psychology is the ______ ________ of MENTAL PROCESSES (thinking, remembering and feeling) and ________.
First, that psychology is the SCIENTIFIC
INVESTIGATION of MENTAL PROCESSES
(thinking, remembering and feeling) and
BEHAVIOUR
True or False? correlation equals causation
false!
An "in-depth observation of one person or a small group of people" is what kind of psychological research design?
A case-study
What are the 5 principles of the scientific
method
1. Empiricism
2. Experimentation
3. Mathematisation
4. Mechanical philosophy
5. Institutionalisation
What are the 4 goals of science?
1) Description
2) Prediction
3) Explanation
4) Control / Application
fill in the blank: In a between-groups experiment, it is often crucial to randomly assign _______ to the independent variable
participants
Empiricism is the idea that all knowledge
is derived from?
sensory experience
What are the 5 main kinds of experimental research in psychology?
1. Experimental design
2. Quasi-experimental design
3. Correlational design
4. Naturalistic observation
5. Case study
good experiments are set up so that ONLY the independent/dependent variable is permitted to
change
independent
I am varying university student's caffeine intake, and measuring how this influences their IQ score via a test. What is the independent variable in this experiment?
caffeine intake
Charles Darwins measurement of the different types of finches is an example of what core goal of science?
description
I am researching the effects of pollution on asthma, the incidence of asthma would be the independent or dependent variable?
dependent