Ch. 1: Introduction And Research Methods

Question 1

What do psychologist place high value on?

Answer 1

Empirical evidence

Question 2

The process of objectively evaluating, comparing, analyzing, and synthesizing information is called?

Answer 2

Critical thinking

Question 3

Who is the father of psychology?

Answer 3

William Wundt

Question 4

Edward Titchener, who sought to identify the basic building blocks of mental life through introspection. Great impact on studying. He is the founder of?

Answer 4

Structuaralism

Question 5

A form of study that studied the mind functions to enable humans and other animals to adapt to their environment. Expanded research on emotions. Study of?

Answer 5

Functionalism

Question 6

Who is the founder of psychoanalytic perspective? The founder believed that a part of the human mind, the unconscious contains thoughts, memories, and desires that lie outside personal awareness. Sex and aggression.

Answer 6

Sigmeud Freud

Question 7

Which perspective contains to explore unconscious dynamos, internal motives, conflicts and past experiences?

Answer 7

Psychodynamic perspective

Question 8

Emphasizes objectively, observable environmental influences on overt behavior . Founder is John b. Watson & skinner. Adopted “conditioning”

Answer 8

Behavioral perspective

Question 9

Stresses on free-will and self actualization. Carls roger and Abraham Moscow. Positive psychology

Answer 9

Humanistic perspective

Question 10

A type of perspective that focus mainly on thought, perception, and information processing. Study the way we gather, encode, and store information.

Answer 10

Cognitive perspective

Question 11

The type of perspective that examines behavior thought the lens of genetics

Answer 11

Biological perspective

Question 12

Perspective that stresses on natural selection, adaptation, and evolution of behavior

Answer 12

Evolutionary perspective

Question 13

Emphasizes on social interactions and cultural determinants of behavior and mental processes. Ethnicity, religion, occupations and class.

Answer 13

Sociocultural perspective

Question 14

Why is the biopsychosocial model so important?

Answer 14

It recognizes that there is no single cause for our behavior or mental states

Question 15

Research that typically focuses on fundamental principles and theories. In laboratory

Answer 15

Basic research

Question 16

Research that is generally conducted outside the laboratory, used for real work application

Answer 16

Applied research

Question 17

What is the order of the scientific method?

Answer 17

Question
Hypothesis
Research experiment
Collect data
Publication of study
Theory development

Question 18

What are the four major goals?

Answer 18

Describe
Predict
Explain
Change

Question 19

What types of descriptive research are there?

Answer 19

Naturalistic observation
Surveys
Case study
Archival research

Question 20

What is correlation research

Answer 20

When two variables are correlated. A change in one is accompanied by a change in the other

Question 21

A carefully controlled scientific procedure that involves manipulation of variables to determine cause and effect is called

Answer 21

Experimental research

Question 22

What is used to help control bias’s by using w chance or random system?

Answer 22

Random assignment

Question 23

A stimulus introduced into a research setting that may affect the outcome of the study errors

Answer 23

Confounding variable

Question 24

Research participants don’t reflect larger population

Answer 24

Sample bias

Question 25

Researcher influences outcome

Answer 25

Experimenter bias

Question 26

Experimental condition influence participants behavior

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Participant bias

Question 27

Social desirability response

Answer 27

Participants try to present themselves in a good light

Question 28

When experimenters assumes that behavior are typical in ones own culture

Answer 28

Ethnocentrism

Question 29

What is the SQ4R method?

Answer 29

Survey, question, read, recite, review, write.

Question 30

What is psychology?

Answer 30

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes