AP PSych: Unit 1&2: Approaches & Research

The individual differences approach focuses on variations of behavior across the normal/abnormal spectrum

Bob conducts basic research on how children's moral thinking changes. He is

The spread or dispersion of data, including the extent to which scores vary from the mean

A tentative statement about the expected relationship between two or more variables

The group in an experiment that is exposed to manipulation of the independent variable

Which of the following would NOT be considered a behaviorist?

The group in an experiment that is not exposed to manipulation of the independent variable

Dr. Felon believes that by rewarding good behavior, criminals can be rehabilitated. This is

Distribution of subjects in experiment in which each has equal chance of being assigned to any group

Precisely defines each variable in study in terms of operations needed to produce/measure them

Behavioral psychologists focus on

Carl Roger's client-centered therapy is an example of

a statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance

A larger group from which a sample is drawn and to which the researcher wishes to generalize

The tendency to answer questions about oneself in a socially approved manner

Occurs when a researcher's expectations influence the results of a study

A system of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations

A measure of variability in data

Research method in which IVs are manipulated and which permits causal interpretation

Exists when a sample is not representative of the population from which it was drawn

Dr. Rook studies the moves of chess masters to learn how people process information. This is considered

A link or association between variables

An in-depth, generally subjective, investigation of an individual subject

Which philosopher theorized that at birth our minds are 'tabula rasa' or a blank slate?

A periodical that publishes technical and scholarly material within a discipline

As pioneers in psychoanalysis and later psychodynamics both Freud and Carl Jung believed that

Dr. Lobe is studying phyiscal/chemical changes in the brain after stressful experiences. Which perspective is this?

Research strategy i/w neither subjects nor experimenters know which condition subjects are in

Effects that occur when subjects experience change due to expectations (or to "fake" treatment)

The statistic that indicates the degree and direction of relationship between variables

Any variables other than the IVs that seem likely to influence the DV in an experiment

The variable that results from the manipulation in an experiment

Descriptive statistic & measure of central tendency; exact halfway point of data distribution

Statistics helpful in organizing and summarizing (but not interpreting) data

The first psychology laboratory was established in Germany by

data that allows one to generalize/to infer from sample data the probability of something being true of a popution

The arithmetic average

Psychologists who assess and treat people with psychological disorders are _____ psychologists.

Sigmund Freud was the founder of this school of psychology:

The early school of psychology know as functionalism was developed by

An early school of psychology that focused how 'the whole is more than the sum of its parts.'

The score that occurs most frequently

A condition or event that an experimenter manipulates in order to observe its impact

Someone who is studying the optimal time to begin 'potty training' is a _______ psychologist.

Occurs when an extraneous variable makes it difficult to sort out the effects of the IV