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PSYC Ch 1
Ivy Tech class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wundt came up with | objective introspective |
| what is objective introspective? | examining and measuring your own thoughts |
| Margaret Washburn | first woman to earn a Ph. D in Psychology |
| What are psychology's 4 goals? | Description, Explanation, Prediction, Control |
| Structuralism is | focused on structure or basic elements of the mind |
| Functionalism is | how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play |
| Behaviorism is | the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only |
| Ivan Pavlov experimented on | dogs |
| Humanists held the view that | people have free will |
| Self-actualization is | achieving one’s full potential or actual self. |
| one type of descriptive research is | Laboratory observation |
| one type of descriptive research is | Naturalistic observation |
| one type of descriptive research is | Surveys |
| one type of descriptive research is | case studies |
| Correlation is | a measure of the relationship between two variables |
| Correlation does not | prove causation |
| Experimenter effect | the experimenter's expectations alter the results |
| Placebo effect | Expectations on the studied can pressure them to act differently then they normally would |