psychology 1.4

Question 1

phrenology

Answer 1

bumps in the skull that revealed personality characteristics and mental abilties.

Question 2

physiognomy

Answer 2

like phrenology but focused on face.

Question 3

mesmerism

Answer 3

a healer moved magnets or empty hands over someones body. to adjust body fluids or whatever

Question 4

psuedospychology

Answer 4

psychological thats seems true but isnt backed up by research

Question 5

confirmation bias

Answer 5

to prefer information that confirms what you believe and thought in the first place

Question 6

belief perseverance

Answer 6

to believe something even when there is evidence that says its not true

Question 7

bandwagon fallacy

Answer 7

believing something because a lot of people believe it

Question 8

emotional reasoning

Answer 8

believing something because of how it made you feel and not how logical it is

Question 9

authority fallacy

Answer 9

believing something because someone in authority believes it

Question 10

antiquity fallacy

Answer 10

believing something because people believed it for a long time

Question 11

black or white fallacy

Answer 11

taking an extreme belief in something when a more moderate belief is more accurate

Question 12

descriptive research

Answer 12

to describe a characteristic of a population

Question 13

correlational research

Answer 13

relationship between two variables

Question 14

correlation coefficient

Answer 14

a statistic showing relationship between two variables. highly positive to highly negative.

Question 15

negative correlation coefficient

Answer 15

one variable goes up the other variable goes down

Question 16

zero correlation coefficient

Answer 16

when there is no correlation or absence of a correlation

Question 17

correlation causation fallacy

Answer 17

mistaken belief that when two variables correlate strongly with each other, one must cause the other

Question 18

independent variable

Answer 18

a variable that is manipulated by teh experimenter

Question 19

experimental research

Answer 19

to research the cause and effect relationship between two variables

Question 20

dependent variable

Answer 20

a variable that is expected to depend on the independent variable

Question 21

experimental group

Answer 21

the group of participants who recieve treatment that is the focus of the study

Question 22

control group

Answer 22

people who don’t receive the treatment that is the focus of the study

Question 23

double blind procedure

Answer 23

experimental research where neither the participants or the researchers know the participants in the group

Question 24

placebo effect

Answer 24

expecting something instead of feeling the manipulation of of the experiment

Question 25

scientific method

Answer 25

posing a question, literature review, hypothosesis, testing hypothesis, drawing conclusions

Question 26

literature review

Answer 26

where researchers look at past experiments of the research

Question 27

population

Answer 27

what the research is focusing on

Question 28

proof to conduct research

Answer 28

tell info about study specifically, informed consent, can withdraw, keep information confidential

Question 29

peer review process

Answer 29

going over the results of the research by experts or something like that

Question 30

replication

Answer 30

doing research again to approve of disconfirm results