Study Guide - Chapter 1 Flashcards
Physiological
Referring to the body and its systems
Scientific method
This involves forming hypotheses, conducting experiments, and analyzing results. It ensures findings are reliable and valid.
Theory
Formulation for relationships among observed findings in ways that make them understandable
How is psychology connected to the natural sciences?
Explanation for human behavior
Who proposed that the mind and body are linked?
Rene Descartes
Who came up with Gestalt psychology?
Max Wertheimer
Who came up with the psychoanalytic approach to psychology?
Sigmund Freud
Social psychology
how individuals affect and are affected by other people and by their environments
Forensic psychology do and scenario
the application of scientific knowledge and methods to help answer legal questions arising in criminal, civil, contractual, or other judicial proceedings
Health psychology
examines how biological, social and psychological factors influence health and illness
APA
American Psychological Association
Hypothesis
A precise prediction about the outcomes of an experiment
Applied research
solving real world problems
Who came up with Functionalism?
William James
What do Educational psychologist?
Study how people learn
Who came up with Introspection and what is it?
Wilhelm Wundt
When you look inside yourself to understand things
Empirical data
information acquired by scientists through experimentation and observation
who is the Grandfather of psychoanalytical approach?
Sigmund Frued
Who is the Grandfather of behavioral approach
John B. Watson
Who terrorized “Baby Albert”?
John B Watson did an experiment making a child scared of white rat
1st laboratory where and by whom
Wilhelm Wundt
Leipzig, Germany
Double blind study
When neither the participants nor the researcher know who is the control or experimental group
Random assignment
every participant having an equal chance of being in either the experimental group or the control group
