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