Chapter 1 Flashcards
Who was Wilhelm Wundt
Forerunner of Experimental Psychology
Who were John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner?
Forerunners of Behaviorism
Who was Max Wertheimer?
Forerunner of Gestalt Psychology
Who were Ulric Neisser and Noam Chomsky?
Influences of the Cognitive Revolution
Dependent Variable
Variable being measured
Independent Variable
Variable being manipulated
Experimental psychology
A method of studying psychology through lab research
Introspection
self detailed reports of reactions to multiple stimuli
Random Assignment
assigning participants to receive different conditions of an experiment by chance
Behvaiorism
focuses on the idea that all behvaiors are learned through interaction with the environment.
Empiricism
The belief that knowledge is based on experiences
Confound
factors that can undermine your ability to draw causal inferences
gestalt psychology
the teaching that the whole is greater than the parts
Correlation vs. Causation
Corrleation links two things. Causation is one thing being the cause of another