Unit 01 - Scientific Foundations of Psychology

What should a correlation coefficient range from?

_______ is self examination, analyzing yourself, looking at your personality/actions, & considering your own motivations

This approach analyzes how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking

B.F. Skinner believed…

What best defines Humanistic Approach?

What is the view or theory that knowledge originates from experience?

the theory that human and animal behavior are learned through conditioning is called...

Who established the first psychology laboratory?

What is the process that the experimenter doesn’t know who/what belongs to which group in a experiment?

British naturalist and scientist who developed theories about evolution and natural selection

a psychology subfield that explores how people and machines interact

To have a hypothesis, you must first have ________

Domain: The study of what makes life most worth living

Edward B. Titchener

 Who led the way to humane treatment of those with psychological disorders?

Range is defined as...

Greek Philosopher, has been called the “father of Western philosophy

The Control group does not have the independent variable applied to it. What is it used for?

the study of how  psychological processes affect and can enhance teaching and learning

What repeats the essence of research study to see the basic findings extend to other participants and circumstances?

What is it called when permission is granted knowing all possible consequences of the experiment?

Psychology and Biology are combined to create: _____

branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders

What is the process of giving participants a fuller explanation of the study they participated in?

How the sample is drawn from the population as a whole.

What is the approach to the mind, personality, and psychological disorders developed by Sigmund Freud?

a trait or characteristic that is present in an organism at birth

What is basic research?

One group of volunteers in a study get a placebo and the other gets a medicine. What is the second group called.

What does survey  mean in psychology?

The application of psychological concepts to optimizing human behavior in work places  

A testable prediction, often implied by a theory

Seeks to explain mental processes & behavior by focusing on the nervous system at the cellular and structural level

Numerical data used to measure and describe characteristics of groups

What is the early school of thought that explored how mental and behavioral processes function? 

What is an an outside influence that changes the effect of a dependent and independent variable?

Statistical Significance

American Psychologist who dismissed introspection and redefined psych as the “scientific study of observable behavior."

The science of behavior and mental processes

a thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind

What methodology measures the relationship between two variables?

John Locke introduced the concept of Tabula Rasa, which is the belief that the mind is ______ at birth.

the way our feelings, beliefs, intentions, and goals are constructed, & how these influence our interactions with others

Philosophy is…

What is an example of “operational definition”?

an American Psychologist who dismissed introspection and redefined psych as the "scientific study of observable behavior

Scientific investigation of basic psychological process such as learning, memory, and cognition

what is negative skew?

Views personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences

What is Applied Research?

Longstanding controversy that genes and experiences make the development of psychological traits and behaviors?

a psychology subfield that explores how people and machines interact.

a graphed cluster of dots, the amount of scatter suggests the strength of the correlation

Which doesn’t apply to Cross-Sectional?

What is the study concerned with theory and technique with psychological measurements?

Inferential Statistics are....

What is standard deviation deviating from?

What data analysis process uses mean, median, and mode?

A _______  study involves the same people being restudied and retested over a long period

The “Father of American Psychology”

What fairly represents a population and ensures each member has an equal chance of inclusion?

a graphed cluster of dots, the amount of scatter suggests the strength of the correlation

What is Cognitive Psychology the study of?

Observing & recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate or control the situations

Branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (school, work, marriage) and becoming better?

Who founded psychoanalysis?

The first american to earn a Ph.D. in psychology and the first president of the A.P.A.

The middle score in a distribution

Knowledge is innate, ideas are eternal, and the soul and personality are separate parts.

Type of data distribution in stats that has two peaks in the graph.