Important People
Statistics
Research Methods
Vocab
Vocab
100

Father of psychoanalytic theory 

latent and manifest contest

Unconscious content 

Your mom


Who is Sigmund Freud


100

Generally preferred measure of central tendency

What is the mean 

100

Observe and record behavior

naturalistic observation, random sampling, and case study are examples of this

What is the Descriptive Method

100

A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish

What is Functionalism

100

I knew it all along phenomenon

What is Hindsight Bias

200

Father of psychology

First psychology lab and conducted experiments

structuralism and introspection 

Who is Wilhelm Wundt

200

What does this represent? 

What is Normal Distribution Curve

200

Looking to prove cause and effect relationships

independent and dependent variable

What is the Experimental Method

200

An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore fundamental elements of the human mind

What is Structuralism

200

An explanation using a set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events

What is a Theory

300

Natural Selection

Evolution

Who is Charles Darwin

300

Variance of scores around the mean

Higher is more spread out

Lower is closer to the mean

What is Standard Deviation

300

assigning individuals in no particular order to help control confounding variables 

What is random assignment

300

The view that psychology should be 

1. an objective science 

2.that studies behavior without reference to mental processes

most researchers agree with 1 but not 2

What is Behaviorism

300

An incorrect sampling process that produces an unrepresentative sample

What is Sampling Bias

400

The first female president of the APA 

developed the concept of self-psychology, which is self-evaluation based on personal experiences

Who is Mary Whiton Calkins

400

Discover whether findings can be applied to a larger population which the sample was collected

What is Inferential Statistics

400

Relationships, how well one variable predicts another

positive, negative, sometimes unrelated

coefficient -1 to +1

What is the Correlational Method

400

No coercion (must be voluntary)

Informed Consent (allowed to fib a little)

Anonymity/Confidentiality 

No significant risk (must debrief)

What are the Ethical Guidelines for Human Research

400

A representation of scores that lack symmetry around the average value

What is Skewed Distribution

500

Father of functionalism 

Also thought of as one of the founding fathers of psychology

Theory of Emotion

Who is William James

500

What is the probability that it occurred by chance or an actual finding

p-value less than 0.05

What is Statistical Significance

500

How the variable will be measured in "real life" terms

What is the Operational Definition

500

The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should rely on observation and experimentation

What is Empiricism

500

A third factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect in an experiment

What is the Confounding Variable