personal psychology

Question 1

what’s a clinical psychologist?

Answer 1

therapist: range from depression, phobias, learning disabilities.

Question 2

what’s a psychiatrist?

Answer 2

therapist that can prescribe medication?

Question 3

what’s a councillor?

Answer 3

work in education settings, prisons, hospitals. (short term)

Question 4

what are psychological paraprofessionals?

Answer 4

works closely with clinical psychologists and psychiatrists. (nurses or therapists)

Question 5

what are psychic surgeons?

Answer 5

remove cancer cells/tumours without touching the client. (scam-most people would die because they didn’t get proper treatment)

Question 6

vocab: behavioural

Answer 6

how behaviours are learned.

Question 7

vocab: clinical

Answer 7

deals with people with abnormal behaviour.

Question 8

vocab: cognitive

Answer 8

how humans process information. 

Question 9

vocab: development/child

Answer 9

child’s behaviour.

Question 10

vocab: parapsychology

Answer 10

deals with powers of mind like psychic powers, telepathy, ghosts, out of body experiences, reincarnation. 

Question 11

what is overt behaviour?

Answer 11

any behaviour that can be observed in the form of the physical response. (walking, talking, eating) 

Question 12

what is convert behavior?

Answer 12

any behaviour that aren’t detectible by and observer. (thinking, judging, deciding, problem solving)

Question 13

what is lab/field research?

pro and con of doing research in a lab?

Answer 13

decide whether you collect information in the lab or outside of lab.
more control within the lab, not all information can be collected in the lab.

Question 14

what is empirical data?

Answer 14

information that is observed. (not numerical)

Question 15

what is statistical analysis? 

Answer 15

analyze Data collected and see what the statistics say. (%)

Question 16

what is descriptive research? 

Answer 16

recording behaviour with no interaction with the child.

Question 17

what is correlational research?

Answer 17

connections between behaviour and are discovered. (looks for causes and effects) 

Question 18

what is scientific research?

Answer 18

involving scientific process and collecting data.

Question 19

what is normative studies?

Answer 19

analyze average/norms during child development. (send average height, teething age) 

Question 20

what is historical studies? 

Answer 20

study the difference in development between generations. 

Question 21

what is it in longitudinal studies?

Answer 21

Study same children at different ages. good for a researching behaviour changes over time. (PAT) 

Question 22

what is cross-sectional studies? 

Answer 22

testing children from different age groups at the same time.

Question 23

what is complicated by the cohort effect? 

Answer 23

comparing different generations can be unfair because of being raised in different times.

Question 24

what is sequential studies?

Answer 24

Study group of ages for a couple years. 

Question 25

what is twins studies?

Answer 25

Study twins who are separated at birth. Hard to find. Differences based on growing up in different environments.

Question 26

vocab: abnormal behaviour

Answer 26

study of abnormal behaviours.