Major Figures
Types of Psychology
Research Methods
Statistics
Ethics
100

A Psychologist that worked with learning and designed a study that tied dogs salivating to food

Ivan Pavlov 

100

The theory that human life and psychology is based on the way in which humans have evolved 

Evolutionary theory

100
the method of performing research that involves having and testing a hypothesis

Experimental method 

100

What type of distribution is this?

Normal 

100

Name one ethical guideline 

consent

debreifing if deception

informed of risks

voluntary 

right to privacy 

200

A researcher who focused on childhood development based on stages and expected tasks to accomplish

Jean Piaget 

200

A type of Psychology that involves a schedule of reinforcement and punishment to create behaviors

Behaviorism

200

The research strategy of asking groups of people questions, but can some time have issues with honesty

What is the survey method

200

Find the Median 

7 10 9 4 3 4 2 6

200

Name a famously unethical study.

Milgram's obedience study

Stanford Prison Experiment

Little Alfred Study 

Monster Study 

Genie 

300

A researcher who created a client-centered approach to therapy 

Carl Rogers

300

The way in which humans develop over a lifetime and the challenges that they need to accomplish 

Developmental Psychology 

300

The research method of watching the subjects in their own environment 

Naturalistic observation

300

Find the Mode

7 10 9 4 3 4 2 6

4

300

Dr. Mast, a psychologist, has a client, Tim, who threatens to seriously harm his brother, Carl. Tim has a history of serious violence and the means to carry out the threat 

What must Dr. Mast ethically do?

inform carl 

400

Focused on self efficacy and modelling behavior as seen in the Bobo Doll Expierment

Albert Bandura 

400

Looking at the whole individual and stresses the idea of self efficacy and self actualization 

Humanistic

400

A study in which the researchers study the same group of people over several time periods, asking similar questions

Longitudinal studies 

400

Find the mean

7 10 9 4 3 4 2 6 

5.625 

400

What ethical violation happens below?

A psychological researcher designs a study to determine whether positive feedback affects self-esteem. The researcher requires each participant to toss twenty coins into a coffee can that is three feet away. Half of the participants are told that their performance is superior, and the other half are told that their performance is well below average. Although some of the participants want to quit tossing coins after a few attempts, they are told that once they begin the study they have to complete it. After the coin toss, participants take a test measuring self-esteem. Following the test, all participants are debriefed and told that information about their performance was false. Results of the study indicate that participants who are told their performance is well below average report lower levels of self-esteem than do those who are told their performance is superior.

violation of the right to withdraw

500

One of the first Psychological theorists, based on ideas of stages of sexual development

Sigmund Freud 

500

The theory that people tend to see the whole before the parts 

Gestalt Psychology 

500

asking the same questions of a sample population and analyzing the variables 

cross sectional study

500

What type of distribution is this?


Positive

500

Find an ethical flaw below

A researcher was interested in studying whether participants who were angry would become less angry if they had a chance to release their anger. At 10:00 in the morning, 6 students met individually with a confederate named Steve. They were each asked to write an essay, which Steve evaluated. He told each student, “This is the worst essay I ever read.” They were then asked to sit in a room quietly for 10 minutes. At 1:00 in the afternoon, a second group of 6 students each wrote an essay, and Steve once again said the essays were the worst he had ever read. This second group was then asked to punch a punching bag. After either sitting quietly or punching the punching bag, the students were given the opportunity to blast a horn when Steve entered the room. The researcher operationally defined anger as the length of time that the students blasted the horn. The researcher assumed students who were given an opportunity to punch the punching bag would be less likely to blast the horn in Steve’s presence. The table below indicates how long, in seconds, each subject blasted the horn when Steve was present.

Did not debreif students