Psychology Chapters 1-2

Front 1

When you gather responses from many participants you are conducting a ___?

Back 1

survey

Front 2

What is the problem with surveys?

Back 2

they provide sample bias and
subjects can misrepresent themselves

Front 3

The measure of individual difference among people?

Back 3

psychological test

Front 4

The problem with pyschological testing is?

Back 4

there is a difficulty in test construction and validation

Front 5

What is better a large or big sample space when doing stats?

Back 5

Large!

Front 6

The principle that personal information obtained from a participant in research or therapy should not be revealed with the individuals consent is?

Back 6

confidentality

Front 7

At the conclusion of an experimental session, informing the particpants about the general purpose of the experiment, including any deception that was involved is ?

Back 7

debriefing

Front 8

The principle that before consenting to participate in research people should be fully informed about any significant factors that could effect their willingness to participate is?

Back 8

informed consent

Front 9

Why is experimental research important?

Back 9

Because it helps one understand the CAUSE of behavior!!

Front 10

Double-blind study

Back 10

when experimenter and participant are unaware of certain conditions

Front 11

Single blind study

Back 11

when participant is unaware of certain conditions

Front 12

An inactive or inert substance that resembles an experimenatal substance is?

Back 12

The placebo effect

Front 13

A technique ensuring that each in an experiment has an equal chance of being assigned to any of the conditions in the experiment is?

Back 13

random assignment

Front 14

the extent to which an experiment has effectively controlled the confounding variable

Back 14

internal validity

Front 15

all uncontrolled variables that change along wit the independent variables are?

Back 15

confounding variables

Front 16

What are the limits of intuition and common sense?

Back 16

hindsight bias and overconfidence

Front 17

The tendency to believe after learning an outcome that we would have forseen it is?

Back 17

hindsight bias

Front 18

the scientific study of the behavior and mind

Back 18

psychology

Front 19

What is a psychoanalysis?

Back 19

its a clinical doctor who studies the mind and system therapy. They analyze personality and treats pyschological disorders.

Front 20

The mathematical technique that helps researches decide whether data are representative of a population or if differences among obervation can be attributed to chance

Back 20

inferential statistics

Front 21

What is a good percentage for inferential statistics?

Back 21

5%

Front 22

A defintion that specifies how concepts can be observed measured is?

Back 22

operational definition

Front 23

What are the two methods of variablity?

Back 23

standard deviation and rnage

Front 24

The idea that its useful to select information from several sources rather than to rely entirely on a single school or perspective is?

Back 24

the ecletic approach

Front 25

observable actions like moving, talking, gesturing, and cell activity, and thoughs can be described as?

Back 25

behavior

Front 26

The contents and processes of subjective experience like sensations, thoughts, and emotions are from the?

Back 26

mind

Front 27

What are they three types of psychologist and what do they do?

Back 27

clinical psychologist-specializes in diagnosis and treatment of psyschological issues

psychiatrist-medical doctor who diagnoses people and are licensed to prescribe meds

applied pyschologist-extend principles to real world

Front 28

The renewed interest in internal mental processes is the _____ approach?

Back 28

cognitive

Front 29

The idea that we are born with mental processes and they are acquired thru natural selection is ________ pyschology?

Back 29

evolutionary

Front 30

________ determines our behavior?

Back 30

culture

Front 31

The technique used to study the mind required people to look inward and describe their own experiences is ?

Back 31

systematic introspection

Front 32

Believing that the only proper subject matter of psychology is observable behavior rather than immediate conscious experience is?

Back 32

behaviorism

Front 33

Trying to understand the mind by breaking it down into basic parts like a chemist is?

Back 33

structuralism

Front 34

to understand mind and behavior by analyzing their function and purpose is?

Back 34

functionalism

Front 35

What are the four types of research methods?

Back 35

1)natural observation
2)case study
3)surveys
4)pyschological tests

Front 36

Recording naturally occuring behavior?

Back 36

naturalistic observation

Front 37

What is the problem with naturalistic observation?

Back 37

Ther reseach lacks control and can't determine cause

Front 38

Gathering a great deal of info on a single case is ?

Back 38

Case study

Front 39

What is the problem with case studies

Back 39

the fact that you can not generalize it