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Psychology exam 1
Psychology Chaps. 1-2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Psychology? | Systematic study of behavior and experiences. |
| Psychiatrist | Can prescribe medicine (medical training) |
| Clinical Psychology | research based |
| Developmental | human behavior across life span |
| social psychology | study of people's thoughts and behavior in their social enviornment. |
| cognitive | studies thought patterns |
| psychometrics/psychometricians | creating good/valid test |
| physiological/biological | physical study of things in your body that impact behavior. |
| experimental | sensation and perception, learning |
| ergonomics | study of humans and objects they use, human response to objects. |
| 4 research objectives | desription: obtaining info.Prediction: taking info and trying to figure out wat is next.explanation: why does something happen.control: cam u control wat happens. |
| steps of scientific method | 1. formulate problem2.decide how to gather empirical data (factual evidence)3. obtain data.4.test u hypothesis (has to falsifiable/testable)5.Communicate your results. |
| case study | long in depth study of one person. |
| population | anyone of research interest to you. |
| sample | sub set of popultation of interest. |
| why is william wundt famous in psychology? | He set up the first psychology labrotory in Germany. |
| why is psychology considered a science? | Psychology forms theories that can be tested with a experiments and is falsifiable. |
| what is hypothesis? how is it different from theory? | Hypothesis is an educated research guess while a theory is more than a guess, it is an explanation that fits observations. |
| parsimony? | explanation using simplest assumptions, sticking to wat u believe. |
| representive sample | mirrors population, demographs of importance |
| What is a variable? | anything that can change in value and is measured, manipulated or controlled. |
| independent variable | manipulated, under control of researcher. (cause) |
| dependent variable | info. from participants under control of participants. (effect) |
| operational definition? | definition that specifies the operations, used to produce or measure something. |
| experimental research method? | only method that allows u to infer caueality b/t variables. |
| 4 requirements for experiment | 1.manipulate at least one IV and measure one DV2.Compare at least 2 groups. (control, experimental)3.randomly assign4.control for any systematic diff. b/t conditions except for manipulation of IV |
| experimental group? | group that recieves IV |
| Control | group that doesn't recieve IV |
| Placebo Effect | happens when participants response to treatment is due to his or her expectations. |
| how is a blind experiment performed? | the participants are unaware, and the experimentors are...or they both r unaware (double blind) |
| naturalistic observation? | observation of what many people do under natural settings. |
| correlation? | shows relationship between two variables. |
| ethical principles | voluntary participation, informed consent, retraction of consent, physical & biological harm, deception, debriefing. |
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