Notable Names
Approaches
Statistics
Ethics
Experimental Method
100
Father of Psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
100
Focuses on the mind’s structure. Uses introspection, observing yourself and your mind.
What is structuralism?
100
A single measure that represents an entire set of scores, such as the mean, median, or mode.
What is a measure of central tendency?
100
an ethical principle that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate
What is informed consent?
100
the variable that is being manipulated in an experiment
What is an independent variable?
200
Established classical conditioning through his experiment with dogs
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
200
How mental processes help the body function
What is functionalism?
200
non-numerical language-based data collected through interviews, open questions and content analysis
What is qualitative data?
200
A person has the right to decline to participate or withdraw from the experiment;
What is freedom from coercion?
200
a testable prediction, often implied by a theory
What is the hypothesis?
300
Dismissed introspection and redefined psychology as "the scientific study of observable behavior"
Who is B.F. Skinner?
300
the idea that psychology is the study of observable behavior
What is behaviorism?
300
Data that can be measured
What is continuous data?
300
The right of the participant to not be personally identified in the research
What is confidentiality?
300
Factors which interfere or influence a study not intended or expected by researchers
What is a confounding variable?
400
Was influenced by Charles Darwin and established the perspective of functionalism
Who is William James?
400
the idea that certain environmental influences can nurture or limit our growth potential
What is humanism?
400
occurs when scores pull the mean toward the higher end of the score
What is the positive skew?
400
the postexperimental explanation of a study, including its purpose and any deceptions, to its participants
What is debriefing?
400
Each participant has an equal chance of being putting into the experimental group or placebo group
What is random assignment?
500
Established the theory of behaviorism and applied it to child development
Who is John B. Watson?
500
studies how unconscious influences behavior and uses that to treat people with psychological disorders
What is psychodynamic psychology?
500
What is the normal curve?
500
We must always use the minimum amount of risk necessary to gain the desired result
What is risk-benefit analysis?
500
An expectation that a substance or an action given during the experiment has a real effect, either positive or negative, on the subject
What is the placebo effect?