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I think that psychology is the science of mental life. I am also psychology's baby daddy.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
100
Also known as the average of a distribution of scores.
What is mean?
100
This approach emphasizes inherent drive toward self-actualization.
What is humanistic approach?
100
A psychologist who studies worker productivity by changing the office layout is engaged in this type of research.
What is applied research?
100
When generalizing a sample to the population, it's important that the sample be this.
What is representative?
200
We are associated with the humanistic branch of society.
Who are Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow?
200
I am the score that occurs most frequently in a distribution.
What is the mode?
200
A person studying this perspective would be interested how the mind encodes, processes, stores, and retrieves information.
What is the cognitive perspective?
200
This is typically used to prevent the possibility of the placebo effect.
What is the double blind procedure?
200
This group is administered the variable being tested.
What is the experimental group?
300
I am a Greek philosopher who believed that intelligence was inherited.
Who is Plato?
300
I am the measure of variation in a distribution. I am also the most affected when there are extreme scores.
What is the range?
300
This perspective emphasizes the importance of different levels of analysis in exploring behavior and mental processes.
What is the biopsychosocial approach?
300
I am conducting an experiment to determine the effects of attention on memory. What is my dependent variable?
What is memory?
300
This group does not receive the variable being tested.
What is the control group?
400
I have studied psychology, but have also been to medical school.
What is a psychiatrist?
400
This type of research would allow you to determine if SAT scores can accurately predict college success.
What is correlational research?
400
This perspective places the most emphasis on how observable responses are learned.
What is behavior genetics?
400
I totally knew that was going to happen. Ughhh.
What is the hindsight bias?
400
This is not changed by the dependent variable.
What is the independent variable?
500
I like to study human behavior in the workplace.
What is an industrial/organizational psychologist?
500
This could be due to a sampling variation and it means that my data is probably not true or reliable.
What is statistical significance?
500
This type of psychologist is interested in how our thinking changes over of the life span.
What is a developmental psychologist?
500
I think there's a correlation, but there really is none.
What is an illusory correlation?
500
Time spent studying causes and increase in test scores. What is the dependent variable?
What is the test score?