Final Study Guide Flashcards
What are the approaches or perspectives and psychology
Biological Evolutionary Cognitive Humanistic Psychoanalytic Learning Sociocultural
The distinct patterns of behavior including thoughts and feelings the characterize a person’s adaptations to life
Personality
What psychology perspective is being demonstrated
Do you negative consequences such as detentions and expulsions deter a person from acting in a violent manner
Learning
What perspective is being demonstrated
Are certain types of decision-making styles more common among the violent students than the nonviolent students
Humanistic
What perspective is being demonstrated
Is violent behavior related to students inability to deny other impulses
Psycho analytic
Perspective is being demonstrated
Are hormone levels associated with stress reactions higher among students involved in violence
Biological
What will the organism do?
What will they think or feel?
Prediction
What was John B Watson the founder of
American behaviorism
The psychologist who said if psychology were to be a natural science it must limit itself to observable measurable events of behavior
John B Watson
A sample in which every member of a population has an equal chance of being selected
Random sample
The distinctive feature of the psychoanalytic perspective is its emphasis on
The influence of unconscious forces on human behavior
What do cognitive psychologists study
The mind mental processes
What type of psychologist is Dr. Flory if he conducts basic research on the relationship between adults language skills and their capacity to solve math problems
Experimental psychologist
What specialty area does Dr. Malkins research best represent on why individuals conform to the behaviors and opinions of others
Social
What type of psychologist is Dr. Crosby if he is involved in an applied research study of customer satisfaction with the newly developed line of cosmetics and beauty aids
Consumer
Specialist most likely to have a medical degree
Health psychologist
What research method would be used to investigate the relationship between the religious beliefs of Americans and their attitudes toward abortion
Survey method
Why is a random sample of research participants selected in a survey
To ensure that the whole population is represented
The variable manipulated by the experimenter
Independent variable
What variable would anxiety be in an experimental study of the effects of anxiety on self-esteem
Independent variable
The group that receives treatment
Experimental group
The group that does not receive the treatment
Control group
The study in which the participant is unaware of whether he or she has received a treatment
Single blind study
A method of scientific investigation that concludes with the calculation of a statistic that indicates the strength and relationship between two variables
Correlational
What method would be used?
Does a lack of sleep cause change in problem solving ability
Testing method
Determining whether growing up in the wild has affected a child’s cognitive development
Case study method
What method
What is the average five year olds attention span at a playground
Naturalistic observational
Method
How do people residing near nuclear reactors feel about the nuclear arms race are their opinions differ from those of people living far from nuclear facilities
Cross-sectional
What influences our perceptions
Past experiences
Moods attitudes and values
Needs
What the group believes
The psychological process through which we interpret sensory stimulation
Perception
The stimulation of sensory receptors and the transmission of sensory information to the central nervous system
Sensation
The weakest amount of a stimulus that can be sensed
Absolute threshold
When principles of perceptual organization lead to misrepresentations of reality
Optical illusions