Approaches
Prizes human potential, growth and self-actualization
Humanistic
Independent Variable
Ethical requirement: subjects' identities be kept private
Confidentiality
Three measures of central tendency
Mean, median and mode
Method used by Wundt's subjects to report on their sensory experiences
Introspection
Unconscious motivations and childhood experiences
Psychoanalytic (Psychodynamic)
A sample in which each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected
Random
Subjects can do this if the experiment causes them to feel unease or discomfort
Withdraw
Bar graph that depicts a frequency distribution
Histogram
Variable other than the independent variable that can exert influence on the dependent variable
Confounding variable
Behavior results from genetic factors and brain functioning
Biological
Experimental design in which the same subjects serve as both control and experimental group
Within-group (or within-subjects) design
Right of subjects to know as much about the experiment as possible before agreeing to participate
Informed consent
Measure of how much the scores in a distribution vary from the mean
Standard Deviation
Procedure for statistically combining multiple studies and evaluating their trends
Meta-analysis
It studies the adaptive value of species-wide behaviors
Evolutionary
Beneficial effect produced by a patient's belief in a treatment
Placebo Effect
Subjects have a right to this, an explanation of the research when the experiment has concluded
Debriefing
Distribution in which mean, median and mode are the same
Normal Distribution
Double blind
Behavioral
Explanation of how variables will be measured
Operational definitions
Groups who must approve psychological experiments
IRBs (Institutional Review Boards)
Likelihood that a result or relationship is caused by something other than mere random chance, represented by the p value.
Statistical Significance
Alteration of behavior by the subjects of a study due to their awareness of being observed.
Hawthorne Effect