Chapter 2 | Psychological Research Important People + Beliefs

Question 1

Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939)

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First woman to earn a PhD in psychology. Researched animal behavior and cognition

Question 2

Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930)

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First generation american psychologist. Opposed behaviorist movement. Conducted research into memory. Estabilshed on of earliest experimental psych labs in the US.
First Female President of APA

Question 3

Francis Sumner (1895-1954)

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First African American to receive a PhD in psychology (1920). Father of Black Psychology

Question 4

Inez Beverly Prosser (1895-1934)

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First AA woman PhD in Psych. Researched in Brown v. Board of Education ruling.

Question 5

James-Lange theory of emotion

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asserts that emotional experience relies on the physiological arousal associated with the emotional state

Question 6

3 Measures of Central Tendency

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Mode: most frequently occuring response
Median: lies at the middle of a given data set
Mean: Average of data points

Question 7

Inter-Rater Reliability

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The degree to which two or more different observers agree on what has been observed

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Internal Consistency

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The degree to which different items on a survey that measure the same thing correlate with one another

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Test-retest reliability

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The degree to which the outcomes of a particular measure remain consistent over multiple administrations

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Ecological Validity

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The degree to which research results generalize to real-world applications

Question 11

Construct Validity

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the degree to which a given variable actually captures or measures what it is intended to measure

Question 12

face validity

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the degree to which a given variable seems valid (on the surface)