| Question |
Answer |
| Define psychology. |
Scientific study and behavior of mental processes. |
| Year psychology began. |
1879 |
| Founder of pysch & what he did. |
Wihelm Wundt... performed introspectional research |
| Describe 2 historical perspectives covered |
structuralism (study of structure of mind), functionalism (function of the mind) |
| Describe 5 current perspectives covered |
psychodynamic, behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, biopsychological (go back and define) |
| What's a case study? adv/disadv? |
researchers learn all they can about individual. adv. lots of detail; disadv, can't rly apply results to similar people |
| Adv/disadv of survey? |
adv. lots of data; dis.have to be very careful about the group |
| What's naturalistic observation? adv/disadv? |
watching behavior in own environment adv. realistic perspective; dis. observer bias |
| correlational study. what do researchers have the patient do to determine strength/direction & what it means to have a +/- coorelation |
they measure the relationship between 2 variables |
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