| A | B |
|---|
| Psychology | behavior and mental processes |
| Pure (basic) research | Research for research's sake |
| Applied research | Research to solve problems, make changes |
| Psychiatrists | Can prescribe medication |
| Functionalists | looked at adaptation to the environment in addition to behavior |
| Perception, information processing and mental representation | Main tools of cognitive psychologists |
| Random Sample | Each person in the identified population has an equal chance of being chosen |
| Strength and direction of a relationship | Correlation coefficient |
| -1.0 to +1.0 | Range of correlation coefficients |
| 0.0 | No correlation |
| One variable goes up while another goes down | Negative correlation |
| Both variable go in the same direction | Positive correlation |
| Control group | Does not have treatment applied |
| Placebo effect | Participant has expectations of certain results |
| Standard deviation | How far from the mean scores are |
| Hindsight bias | Believing you knew the outcome ahead of an event |
| Don't prove cause and effect | Correlation coefficients |
| Used introspection to describe mental processes | Structuralists |
| Hypothesis | A testable prediction |
| One standard deviation in a normal distribution | 68% of scores fall within |
| Biological Perspective | Focuses on Nature- genetics, neurology, hormones, etc. |
| Statistical Significance | Unlikely the results occurred by chance |
| Distributed practice | NO CRAMMING!!! study over time |
| Rogers/Maslow | Humanists- love and acceptance |
| Mean | Measure of central tendency most affected by skewed data |
| Independent variable | What we are manipulating |
| Dependent variable | What we are studying to see change |
| Cognitive Perspective | Studies how you think/interpret situations and how that impacts your behaviors |
| Biological Perspective | Looks for explanations of mental processes and behaviors in genetics, the brain and other physiological causes |
| Wundt | "Father of Psychology" (or at least father of the first lab for psychology) |
| Structuralists | Early field of psychology that focused on introspection- how do various stimuli make you feel |
| Range | Most basic measure of variation |
| Cognition | Mental processes such as learning, remembering, thinking |
| curiosity, skepticism, and humility | Necessary in a scientific attitude |
