Psychology Basics

 Type of research measures the naturally occurring relationship between variables. 

 In research with deception with humans, researchers need to do what? 

What are the goals of psychology?

Perspective focuses on Maslow's idea of how healthy people strive to reach theirfull potential?

Approach focusing on gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status &/or culturalinfluence on behavior

Based on belief that humans have the capacity for self-fulfillment & make conscious choices 

Focuses on importance of unconscious motives and conflicts in determining human behavior 

Research method in which people respond to questions (it is often reliable due to lying)

Participants have a right to receive a completeexplanation of the research

1970 psychologist Mischel placed a treat in front of a group of children; what did it show?

Change in participants response due to belief that they have received an experimental condition

The Independent Variable is

In this type of study, neither participants nor experimenter knows which received the IV

This type of research method focuses on differentage groups @ the same time to see patterns

Psychologistswant to know if exposing students to music improves their grades. What is the IV?

As one variable goes up the other goes down

Father of Psychology in the U.S. and wrote 1stPsychology textbook

Drivers who talk on the phone will be more likely to make errors than thosewho do not talk

Study that represents a population fairly as everyone has an equal chance of being included.

This approach focuses on how the brain, nervous system, hormones & genetics influence behavior

Group exposed to all of the variables of the experiment but doesn't getwhatever is being tested

This type of research focuses on observing subjects in a naturalsetting without interfering

Study where one group is observed periodically over the course of their lives

Psychologists study an individual or a group in-depth in which of these?

Researchstudy designed to determine the degree to which two variables are related toone another

This approach focuses  how behavior is affected by unconsciousdrives and conflict 

Only methodthat draws conclusions about cause & effect; researchers control the variables

The subjects in an experiment who are exposed to thetreatment (independent variable)

In an experiment on the impact ofsleep deprivation on test performance, what is the DV?

This man started1st lab to study humans (1879)  and established Psychology as formal field 

Psychologist Piaget focused on this theory:how people think,process,store, retrieve information

Asthe value of one variable increases (or decreases) so does the value of theother variable.

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

This is the variable that is controlledand manipulated by the experimenter

A researcher manipulates which variable in an experiment?

Focuses on influence of ethnicity,gender, and economic status on behavior

Watson, Pavlov and Skinner all have to do w/ which perspective?