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| Psychology | The study of mental processes and behaviors. |
| Phrenology | The study of the skull & its im |
| Structuralism | The brach of psych. that examines what thoughts are made of. |
| Functionalism | Psych. Branch: Studies how our thoughts and traits help us survive. |
| Psychoanalysis | Psych. Branch: Our unconscious mind influences our thoughts & behavior. |
| Behaviorism | Psych. Branch: We are shaped through rewards & punishments. |
| Humanism | Psych. Branch: We can become better if we have what we need. |
| Cognitive | Psych. Branch: We take in information, process it, & respond. |
| Neuroscience | Psych. Branch: Our physical brain, its chemicals & electricity. |
| Behavior Genetics | Psych. Branch: We are shaped by the DNA we inherit from ancestors. |
| Evolutionary | Psych. Branch: Everything about us reflects the behavior of early humanity. |
| Socialcultural | Psych. Branch: we are affected by the people around us and our traditions. |
| Basic Science | Research that is done just to learn, with no other purpose. |
| Applied Science | Research that is used to solve a problem or affect the world. |
| Clinical Psychologist | Doctoral professional who helps people deal with everyday problems and mental illness. |
| Psychiatrist | Medical doctor who can prescribe medication. |
| Counselor | Psych. professional with a masters degree, can help with everyday problems. |
| Industrial Organizational | Psych. career that helps make employees happier at businesses. |
| Forensic | Psych. career that studies criminals and their crimes. |
| Environmental | Psych. career that studies how things like hurricanes and overpopulation affect people. |
| Survey | A research method that lets you ask many people questions & get answers fast. |
| Case Study | A research method that lets you discover the entire life of a person. |
| Naturalistic Observation | A research method that lets you watch subjects without them knowing that you are there. |
| Correlational Study | A research method that lets you find the relationship between two things. |
| Experiment | A research method that lets you find cause and effect. |
| Positive Correlation | Example: "The more you like chocolate, the more you eat it." |
| Negative Correlation | Example: "The more flu shots you give, the less flu there is." |
| Null Correlation | Example: "Height" and "Number of Pandas you have seen" have no relationship. |
| Question | Scientific Method Step 1: Become curious about something. |
| Hypothesis | Scientific Method Step 2: Make a statement to be tested. |
| Experiment | Scientific Method Step 3: Conduct the research. |
| Results | Scientific Method Step 4: Collect the data that your research created. |
| Conclusion | Scientific Method Step 5: Decide if your hypothesis is supported or refuted. |
| Theory | Scientific Method Step 6: Make a rule about how the world works. |
| Population | All the people who could be in your experiment. |
| Sample | The people that you randomly select from your population to be in your experiment. |
| Independent Variable | The variable in the experiment that we change. |
| Dependent Variable | The variable in an experiment that we measure to see if the IV changed it. |
| Control Group | The group in our experiment that does not receive the IV. |
| Experimental Group | The group in our experiment that receives the IV. |
| Ethics | The rules that govern how you are supposed to treat your subjects. |
| Little Baby Albert | Experiment: Kids can be taught to fear harmless things. |
| Milgram Obedience | Experiment: People can kill if an authority figure says so. |
| Stanford Prison | Experiment: An evil place can win out over good people. |
| Mean | Adding all your #'s together, then รท by the # of #'s. |
| Median | When you place your #'s in numerical order, this is the middle #. |
| Mode | This is your most commonly occurring #. |
| Introspection | Looking inside & asking hard questions to examine our thoughts. |
