Final Flashcards
First modern psychologist, established first psychology lab
Wihelm Wundt
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake
Basic science
Applies things to the legal system
Forensic psychology
Studies the functions of consciousness
Functionalists
Led humanistic psychology
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers
Developed personality tests
Sir Francis Galton
Looked at the unconscious mind
Sigmund Freud
Cardinal rule of _____________ is to never disturb the subject
Naturalistic observation
When you make something happen because you say it will happen
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Relatedness between two variables
Correlation (studied 8 hours got an A) (measure)
How you think and behave it will be that way
Cognitive state
Central range of scores
Mean (average)
What occurs the most in a set of numbers
Mode
Normal bell curve
Correlation coefficient
In the experimental group the _____________ is applied
Independent variable
When you list and summarize data in a practical, efficient way
Descriptive statistics
When you collect data through intense interviews and questionnaires
Survey
Relatively small sample out of the total population
Sample
Explore how humans and animals react to their environment
Humanists
Main humanistic psychologist
Rollo May
Study that happens over many years
Longitudinal study
Mean, median, and mode are measures of _____________
Central tendency
When men and women receive equal pay for the same jobs
Comparable worth
Another term for positive stress
Eustress
Sequence in _____________________ is __________,_____________,______________.
General adaptation syndrome
Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
Long level of stress weakens it
Immune system
Less vulnerable to stress
Type B people
Negative stress
Distress
Reaction to fearful situation
Fight or flight
To positive alternatives
Approach-approach
A psychologist who diagnoses and treats people with emotional disturbances
Clinical psychologist
The branch of psychology that studies the emotional, physical, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that occur throughout an individual’s life cycle
Developmental psychology
A school of psychology that emphasizes personal growth in the achievement of maximum potential for each unique individual
Humanistic psychology
A measure of variability that describes an average distance of every score from the mean of the scores
Standard deviation
The branch of mathematics concerned with summarizing and making meaningful inferences from collections of data
Statistics
The small group of subjects, out of the total number available of the largest population, that a researcher studies
Sample
In an experiment, a group of participants that is treated in the same way as the experimental group, except that the experimental treatment (the independent variable) is not applied
Control group
The group of participants to which the independent variable is applied
Experimental group
In in-depth research method that involves an intensive investigation of one or more subjects
Case study
A number that describes something about the “average” score of a distribution
Central tendency
A change in the illness or behavior that results from a belief that the treatment will have an effect rather than from the actual treatment
Placebo effect
A type of conflict situation in which the individual wants to do something that fears or dislikes it at the same time
Approach-avoidance
In psychoanalysis, the reactance of a patient either to reveal painful feelings or to examine long-standing behavioral patterns
Resistance
The personality traits of control, commitment, and challenge to help reduce the stress we feel
Hardiness
A disorder in which victims of catastrophes or other stressful events experience the original event in the form of dreams or flashbacks
PTSD
A disorder in which a person’s mood inappropriately alternates between feelings of mania (euphoria) and depression
Bipolar disorderThe small group of subjects out of the total number of available
The humanist term for realizing ones unique potential
Self-actualization
In intense and irrational fear of a particular object or situation
Phobia
The reaction of the body and brain to regular drug use, whereby a person needs an increased amount in order to produce the original effect
Tolerance
The symptoms that occur after a person discontinue the use of a drug to which he or she has become addicted
Withdrawal
Involves hallucinations and delusions, including grandeur or persecution
Paranoid-type schizophrenia
A person exhibits two or more personality state, and each including with its own way of thinking
DID
When a person feels they are incapable of doing their job well and they are physically worn out and emotionally exhausted from giving to much time and energy to a project while not receiving sufficient gratification
Burnout
When a person experiences seven unexplainable attacks of intense anxiety, Reading the individual to feel a sense of inevitable doom or even the fear that he or she is going to die
Panic attack
A condition in which there is no apparent physical cause
Somatoform disorder
When a person repeatedly performs coping behaviors
Compulsion
Symptoms include incoherent language, inappropriate emotions, giggling for no apparent reason, generally disorganized motor skills, and hallucinations and delusions
Disorganized schizophrenia
Introduced the concept of reinforcement
B.F. Skinner
When a person is physically handicapped; The person literally cannot feel anything in his left hand, move his legs, or exercise some other normal physical function
Conversion reaction
A physical being; a person
Holistic organisms
Normal curve
Bell curve
When an experimenter give the patient a drug, but the patient doesn’t know if it is real or fake, expectations play a role if it’s fake
Single-blind study
When either the participant or the experimenter know which group received what
Double-blind study
Being physically tired; last stage it in the general adaptation syndrome, when you become so stressed that you get exhausted
Exhaustion
People always prepared for flight or fight; always struggling; these type of people don’t like delay of any kind
Type A
Alcohol often called a social drug; is biggest drug problem in America; is an addiction
Drugs and alcohol
A discipline of science that applies existing scientific knowledge to develop more practical application
Applied science
A possibility of something happening
Chance
An absence of conformity to these norms
Deviance
Animals and people are _____________
Cognitive organisms
An educated guess, has to be scientifically tested, part of the scientific method
Hypothesis
