Psychology Basics
The three aspects of psychology which are studied.
What are Mind, Brain, and Behavior?
The origins of psychology where it was believe that the soul and brain were the same and was based on examining one's own thoughts.
What is Philosophy?
The three goals of science.
What are Describe, Predict, Explain?
The repetition of a study to confirm results.
What is Replication?
The type of study that objectively and systematically discusses the behavior of an individual or a group.
What is a Descriptive Study?
The physiological structure where biological processes take place to cause mental activity.
What is the Brain
A developed tool (but not physical) that helped study participants understand and articulate conscious thought.
What is Introspection?
The large web of interconnected ideas based on many prior research studies that hypotheses are built off of.
What is Theory?
The question that guides your research and that your hypothesis will answer.
What is a Correlational Study?
Systematically questioning and evaluating information using well supported evidnece.
What is Critical Thinking?
The first imaging tool that uses radioactive materials to track activity in the brain?
What is Positron Emission Tomography (PET)?
Something that is measured, manipulated or both by a researcher.
Variable.
The part of the research process where you seek out what information is already known on the topic of your research question.
What is a Literature Review?
What is Participant Observation?
Part of psychology that allows for internal processes such as critical thinking and decision making.
What is the Mind?
The psychological perspective that views the adaptive ability of mind and behavior.
What is Functionalism?
How variable are described and measured in a study.
What is an Operational Definition?
The cyclical systematic procedure where phenomena is measured to find patterns and objective information.
What is the Scientific Method?
A research study where one individual or group is intensely examined with a phenomena that can not be replicated in a true experiment.
What is a Case Study?
This is the result of not using critical thinking.
What is Bias?
The psychological perspective that views the conscious experience as the sum of all it's basic underlying components.
What is Structuralism?
When a theory, hypothesis, or statement is testable.
Must be measurable, falsifiable, and can't be an opinion.
What are the Requirements for a Hypothesis?
What is the Directionality Problem?