Final Study Guide Flashcards
Wilhelm Wundt
First modern psychologist who established the first psychology laboratory
Hypothesis
An educated guess, part of the scientific method, and it has to be tested
Sir Francis Galton
Developed the personality test
Humanistic Psychology
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
Applied science
Psychological principles used tho solve immediate problems
Functionalist
Psychologist who studies the function of the consciousness
Legal system
Forensic Psychology applies psychological principles to this system
Basic science
Pursuit of knowledge for its own sake
Physiological state
A person is motivated by this
You might behave by your
Cognitive or mental state
Sigmund Freud
Unconscious mind/motivations
Rollo May
Humanistic psychologist who described human behavior as active and creative, tried to figure out why humans and animals adapt go things/places
Positive correlation
Positive relationship between 2 variables (measure of degree) it’s opposite is negative correlation
The cardinal rule of naturalistic observation
Do not disturb or disrupt anything
Self fulfilling prophecy
When a researcher finds what they expect to find
Mean
The range of scores on a bell curve
Bell curve
Represents the correlation coefficient
Descriptive statistics
List and summarize data in a practical way
Survey
Method of collection information from someone (questionnaires)
Sample
Small group of a total population
Statistics
Math that allows researchers to organize and evaluate data
Mean
Average
Longitudinal study
Studying the same group of people for a long period of time
Psychologists check if results are statistically significant or due to this
Chance
Central tendency
Mean, median, mode
Comparable worth
Woman and men should get equal pay for the same jobs
Eustress
Positive stress
Distress
Negative stress
General adaptation syndrome
Alarm Resistance Exhaustion
Immune system
Prolonged stress weakens this
Type B people are less vulnerable to this
Stress
Approach approach
Two positive options/choices
Approach avoidance
One positive one negative options/choices
Avoidance avoidance
Two negative options/choices
Fight or Flight
Response to danger
Stress
Psychologists say your perception of an effect causes/is this
Hardiness
Active coping strategy
Control
Commitment
Challenge
Cognitive reaction
Stress is so bad you can not concentrate
Exhaustion
When delusions come to help you cope with the situation
Holistic organism
Humans are this type of organism
Uplift
It is a positive thing (such as giving something to someone) to make them happy or bring joy to them(positive)
Conversion reaction
Transforming emotional difficulty into a loss of a physical body function
Bipolar disorder stages
Manic and depressive
Phobia
Absolute fear of something
Tolerance
Taking more of a drug to get the original effect, because their body has become tolerant of it
Paranoid type schizophrenia
Delusions and hallucinations
Dissociative identity disorder
One person with many individual personalities/persons
Alcoholism
1 drug problem
Deviance approach to mental illness
When most people do the normal thing
How most people deal with phobias
They avoid them
Panic attack
Intense anxiety with no apparent cause
Post traumatic stress disorder
A disorder that comes from traumatizing events in the forms of dreams of flashbacks
Compulsion
Repetition of irrational action
Disorganized schizophrenia
Incoherent language, inappropriate actions, etc.
Long term institutionalized schizophrenics might result in
Burn out
Withdrawl
The symptoms that occur after the person discontinues that use of a drug to which he or she has become addicted
Clinical psychology
a psychologist who diagnoses and treats people with emotional disturbances
Developmental psychology
a psychologist who studies the emotional,cognitive,biological,personal, and social changes that occur as an individual matures
Experimental group
The group to which an independent variable is applied
Control group
The group that is treated in the same way as the experimental group except that the experimental treatment (the independent variable) is not applied.
Self-actualization
Living up to your full potential
B.F. Skinner
Theory that people will start doing or not doing things depending on consequences and rewards
