Unit 1 - Scientific Foundation of Psychology

What is the definition of the biopsychosocial approach?

What approach to pscyhology focuses on the physical as the the contibutor to behavior?

This psychologist emphasized on rewards and punishments (a stimuli) for human behavior actions

What is the definition of the cognitive approach?

This perspective has to do with survival of the fittest and passing on the stronges genes

What is Ego?

This variable has an unwanted effect on the results of the experiment

What is Psychology?

What is Superego?

This group receives the independent variable in an experiment

This is an "if...then" statement that summarizes the research findings you expect to get.

This perspective has to do with thinking and perception.

These are not based on actual data but interpretations from the data

Emphasized the study of observable behaviors rather than the study of subjective mental process

What is the definition of the evolutionary approach?

This perspective has to do with growth and free will to meet needs

Applies the principles of psychology to the workplace and its one America's highest paying jobs

This variable describes the results of the experiment or effect in causation

When people in a sample are randomly placed in either the experimental or control group

It is recommended to follow these when conducting experiments with humans and animals

This type of research involes a questionnairre either on paper or the computer

This perspective has to do with behavior we can see and consequences

What is the definition of the humanistic approach?

This is the only research method that can show causation

What is ID?

Inspired by Titchener, to study the basic components, structures, of conscious experience.

This is the number that describes the strength of relationship between two variables (-1 or +1)

Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and B.F. Skinner emphasized on observable measured conditions

This occurs when the mean, median and mode of data is the same on graph

The psychological school of thought that looked for the purpose of thoughts through outside influence was

This person is the father of psychoanalysis

What is the definition of psychoanalysis?

This research involves looking deeply into the history of one or a small group of people

This variable is the one that the researcher controls and is the cause in causation

This is the specific wording to define a variable a researcher is studying

This school of thought saught to learn the structure of thought was

What is the definition of the sociocultural approach?

This is the average distance from the mean

This perspective has to do with brain chemistry and genetics

This type of research involves carefully observing someone in their natural setting

This type of research method follows the same people over an extended time period

What is the definition of functionalism?

What are the 3 types of psychoanalysis?

This is the smallest group that the researcher is actually researching with their chosen method

Deals with how we gather information through daily practices and customs

This is the group the researcher wants to know about, so the researcher pulls samples or groups from this

If the group being studied is randomly chosen from the population it is called a

This type of research uses subjects from different age groups at the same time

This group is used to compare the results, they do not get the independent variable

What is the definition of the biological approach?

What is the definition of structuralism?

What is the view that knowledge originates in experience and relies on observation and experimentation? -Bacon and Locke

Tabula rasa means

This perspecitive has to do with your culture, religion, country of origin and family

If a smaller group that the researcher is testing accurately portrays the population it is a

This perspective has to do with the unconscious mind and childhood conflicts

Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow emphasized the importance of self-esteem, free will, and choice

The first psychological laboratory was created by:

What is the definition of behavioralism?

A German scientist who established a method called Introspection, people deal with experiences