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A substance with no measurable impact on animals and humans, commonly a sugar pill
What is a Placebo?
100
The variable that the researcher measures in an experiment ( EX: Test Scores)
What is a Dependent Variable?
100
Freudian therapy focusing on unconscious motives and internal childhood conflicts
What is Psychoanalysis?
100
Type of observation which takes place in a natural setting
What is Naturalistic Observation?
100
A science which studies behavior and cognitive processes
What is Psychology?
200
A type of study where neither participants or researchers working with participants know which group is receiving treatment
What is a Double Blind Study?
200

The variable manipulated by the researcher in an experiment (EX: Medicine )

What is an Independent Variable?

200
Therapy that emphasizes personal growth, potential, and responsibility
What is Humanistic Therapy?
200
A prediction/statement of likelihood that a certain event will occur or that a given relationship will be found between two variables
What is a Hypothesis?
200
A medical doctor who can treat psychiatric disorders with prescription drugs
What is a Psychiatrist?
300
The group that does not receive the independent variable in an experiment
What is a Control Group?
300

a sample in which each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected to represent the whole.

What is the Random sampling

300
Psychiatric therapy that focuses on the influence of the nervous system, hormones, and genes
What is Biological Therapy?
300
questions about peoples opinions or behaviors which yields information from a large group of people
What is a Survey?
300

The psychologist responsible for the "brown eyes vs. blue eyes" experiment

Who is Jane Elliot?

400
The group that receives the independent variable in an experiment
What is an Experimental Group?
400

the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was first fully expounded by Charles Darwin and is now believed to be the main process that brings about evolution.

What is the Natural selection?

400
objective therapy which studies behavior without reference to internal processes (John Watson)
What is Behavioral Therapy?
400
Type of research that studies small groups in great detail
What is a Case Study?
400

phenomenon of perceiving a relationship between variables (typically people, events, or behaviors) even when no such relationship exists.

What is a Illusory correlation?

500

Where a researcher studies the effects of variables in a controlled setting such as a lab where they determine causation 


What is an Experiment?

500

also known as the knew-it-all-along effect or creeping determinism, is the inclination, after an event has occurred, to see the event as having been predictable, despite there having been little or no objective basis for predicting it.

What is hindsight bias?

500
Therapy which focuses on how processing, storing, and retrieving information influences behavior
What is Cognitive Therapy?
500

a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things.

What is a correlation?

500
The "Father of psychology" who established the first psychology lab
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?