Duplicate of Duplicate of Psychology Session 1

Who is the main theorist/s of cognitive psychology?

Participants and researchers have no idea whether the subjects get real treatment or placebo

When was psychology first taught in New Zealand Universities?

Being able to forecast behavior accurately is:

An educated guess about the relationship between variables

What psychologists investigates human social behavior, incl attitudes, conformity, persuasion?

What psychologists conducts research on infant, child, adolescent and adult development?

Occurs when observers see what they expect to see or record only selected details

Who is the main theorist/s of functionalism psychology?

Developing ones potential fully and becoming the best person possible

Participants have no idea whether they get real treatment or placebo

Who is the main theorist/s of behaviouralism psychology?

System of ideas that summarizes existing data and predicts future observations

Increases in one variable are matched by decreases in the other variable

Emphasizes the study of thinking, learning and perception in whole units, not in parts

What psychologists studies how behavior is guided by patterns that evolved during time?

The variables that are measured,demonstrate effects that independent variables have on behavior

A medical doctor with training in diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders

Web-based research, low cost and can reach many people

Increases in one variable are matched by increases in the other variable

The study of human strengths, virtues and effective functioning

School of thought concerned with analyzing sensations & personal experience into basic elements

In 1950's psychology departments were set up in what universities?

Natural events, such as accidents, that provide psychological data

What psychologists studies human thinking and information processing abilities?

Entire group of animals or people belonging to a particular category e.g all married women

Who is the main theorist/s of humanistic psychology?

The attempt to explain behavior in terms of underlying biological principles

Changes in participants behavior caused by the influence of their expectations

A advisor who specializes in helping people with problems not involving serious mental disorder

Who is the main theorist/s of psychoanalytic psychology?

In-depth focus on all aspects of a single person

What are the 4 goals of psychology?

Behavior that can not be directly observed e.g memory

Defines a scientific concept by stating specific actions or procedures used to measure it

Public polling technique applied to answer psychological questions

What are the limitations of natural observation?

Thinks that due to taking a pill they are getting better but its just a sugar pill

Who is the main theorist/s of gestalt psychology?

The study of how human evolution and genetics might explain current human behavior

The scientific study of behaviour and mental processes

The ability of a test to measure what its supposed to measure

Data should be approximately the same each time, consistent

A person highly trained in the methods, factual knowledge and theories of psychology

Psychology was usually affiliated with what other subject at university?

Being able to alter the conditions that influence behaviors is:

Being able to state the causes of a behavior is:

Attributing human thoughts, feelings or motives to animals

Changes in behavior caused by the unintended influence of the researcher

Observing behavior in a natural setting

The school of psychology that emphasizes the study of overt, observable behavior

are exposed to all other variables except the independent variable:

The group of participants exposed to the independent variable

Studies designed to measure the degree of a relationship between 2 or more events or variables

Yields empirical evidence through direct observation and measurement

A prediction that leads people to act in ways that make the prediction come true

Focus on importance of social & cultural contexts in influencing the behavior of individuals

Asking if a belief is supported by scientific theory and systematic observation

Concerned with how behavior and mental abilities help people adapt to their environments

Condition that a researcher wants to prevent from affecting the outcomes of the experiment

What New Zealander published research in a British Psychology journal?

In research, a tendency to give “polite” or socially desirable answers

Behavior that can be directly observed e.g crying

Any theory of behavior that emphasizes internal conflicts, motives and unconscious forces

What psychologists researches the brain, nervous system and other physical origins of behavior?

Who is the main theorist/s of structuralism psychology?

Confirmable by more than one observer

The deliberate attempt to uncover how a commonsense belief or scientific theory might be false

Focuses on the study of how covert mental processes influence human behavior

The view that behavior is shaped by psychological processes occurring at level of th individual

A mental health professional (usually a medical doctor) trained to practice psychoanalysis

Being able to name and classify various observable, measurable behaviours is:

Small group that accurately reflects a larger population

The variable that is manipulated, condition altered by the experimenter

What is experimental research trying to do?

Changes in subjects behavior caused by an awareness of being observed

when individuals believe that personality descriptions apply specifically to them:

An unfounded belief held without evidence or in spite of falsifying evidence

An approach to psychology that focuses on human experience, problems, potentials and ideals

Variables that you did not account for or were unable to control

Any unfounded system that resembles psychology and is not based on scientific testing

Tendency to notice and remember information that confirms our expectations

Where was psychology first taught in New Zealand

What NZer published a PhD in 1931 under the title “Property: A study of Social Psychology”?