Prologue
This prediction of certain event occurring is essential to starting an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
This method of study allows for a more subjective result by receiving information from a large group of participants.
What is a survey?
This theory states that people will build relationships with those who are similar to themselves in level of attractiveness.
What is matching?
This person has the ability to diagnose and treat people with prescription drugs.
What is a psychiatrist?
This man established the shock obedience experiment.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
This counterpart of the manipulated variable of the experiment is measured.
What is a dependent variable?
This method of study follows a faction of participants over a long period of time, many of these last a few years.
What is the longitudinal?
This theory states that people will pour their work onto others in a group rather when they are working on their own.
What is social loafing?
This effect explains that people will not take action because they believe someone else will.
What is the bystander effect?
This type of experiment requires the participants to be in a lab.
What is a controlled environment?
This part of the experiment is manipulated to gain a measurable result.
What is an independent variable?
This method requires the experiment to be held in the most natural place to the participants.
What is naturalism?
This theory implies that experiments should deal with human growth and reaching ones' potential.
What is humanism?
This effect is usually assisted with an object that has no real effect on someone, but the brain will trick the body into being healed.
What is the placebo effect?
This is the result of looking into ones' inward unconscious and report their perceptions.
What is introspection?
The researchers study the large or small impact the variables have on this congregation of partakers.
What is an experimental group?
With this method, only the researchers have the knowledge of who is in the experimental group.
What is the single-blind method?
This theory analyzes that humans will change their beliefs or behavior to fit in with the rest of the group.
What is conformity?
This person is trained to treat people with psychological disorders through psychotherapy.
What is a counselor?
This science studies behavior and mental processes, both together and separately.
What is psychology?
Researchers study this faction of participants and compare the results of the previous group.
What is a control group?
This method requires that neither the researcher nor the participants have knowledge of who is in the experimental group.
What is the double-bind method?
This theory explains that people will fulfill a large request because they have complied to a smaller request beforehand.
What is the foot-in-the-door theory?
This is the effect of how processing, storing, and retrieving influences our behavior.
What is cognition?
This man founded the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany.
Who was Wilhelm Wundt?