Psyc chap1 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| what is psychology | the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Animals and humans too. |
| We use systematic methods to what? | 1. observe2. describe3.predict4.explain |
| what is behavior | behavior is everything and anything that can be observed. we infer |
| what do we look at with mental processes | thoughts, feelings, motives, proble, solving |
| metal processes cannot be what? | seen or observed directly |
| philosphy is what | the way we reason things out |
| psychology is what | is the evidence to be able to back up what we think |
| four attitudes: | 1. curosity: what we want to know2. objectivity3. skeptiscism4.willingness to think critically |
| Darwins idea | our behavior is adaptive. were more likely to survive. because of our brain we can adapt |
| Wilhem Wundt | december 1879; University of Leipzig; created first psychological lab in germany. |
| what did Wilhem Wundt study? | he studied reaction time; quicker reaction times; |
| hisory is initally very | physilogicaly based. |
| intellegence sums up your what? | sensory abilities |
| anthopormorphic data: | assesing data based on physical charateristics |
| evolutionary psychologists: | foucus on adaptivitity of our behaviors. based on Darwin. why we are here |
| Sigmund Freuds idea (1800-1900) | an unconscious drives our behavior. unsure of why we do things. first to make theory he made |
| B.F.Skinner | we are what we do: behaviorist. is you act like a jerk, you are a jerk. change your behavior. |
| congaitive psychologist | we can know what is in peoples mind. it does matter. we want to know how people solve problems. |
| humanistic psychologists | people are inherently good and strive to become better. be all that you can be. |
| who are some examples of humanistic psychologists? | Abraham Maslow and carl Rodgers |
| sociocultural psych. | ind. cultures dictate what is normal, adaptive, acceptable. look at the differences. |
| neuropsychologists | how are our brain and nervous system enhances our behavior, motion and thought |
| theory | grand statement. organizes facts |
| hypothesis | test a theory. testable question |
| how do we research? | 1. desrciptive research2.correlation research3. experimental |
| descriptive research | basic level. observing and recording info about behavior. not experiment! |
| list the types of descriptive research | 1. obervational2.Surveys and interviews3. Standardize tests4. case studies |
| Standardized tests are what | written or oral; scored for 1 overall score; relative to others; many not predict behavior in nontest situations; assumes behavior or trait is consistent/ stable. |
| case studies look at what | in depth at individual or a group. |
| cases studies usually are | biographys |
| who had the first case study? | Sigmond Froud |
| what is a negative on case study | few people dont have enough information to study certain events. example: school shooters |
| case studies give insight to | rare behaviors |
| what is a correlation research | looks for relationship between two varibles, factors or charateristics |
| correlation is? | causation. |
| what is an experimental research | carefully regulation= controlled |
| what are two variables of experimental research | 1. independant2. dependant |
| what is an independant variable? | you can change it; hope it will cause dependant to do something different |
| dependant variable? | affected by the IV |
| two types of experiments: | 1. experimental group2. controlled group |
| what is experimental gp? | gp. that "gets something" |
| controlled group? | everything same except for the thing the experimental group gets |
| what are random assignments | the way you can make groups equal before you manipulate the indepadant variable. |
| blind and double blind experiments | we dont know, neither do the experimentors |
| experimenter bias | wording effects |
| participant bias | know what study is about and help out |
| confound: | something that could happen and explain the results |
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