Summer Vocab Flashcards
Nature vs nurture
Do human traits develop through experience or genetics
Define psychology
Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Humanistic psychology
Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people
Natural selection
Nature selects those that best enable an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment
Biopsychosocial
Considers the influence of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors
Counseling
Assists people with problems in living and achieving greater well being
Clinical psychology
Assists and treats mental, emotional and behavior disorders
Psychiatry
Medicine dealing with psychological disorders
Critical thinking
Examines assumptions, discerns, hidden value, evaluates evidence and assess conclusions
Replication
Repeating the essence of a study with different people in different situations
Hindsight bias
Learning an outcome that one would have foreseen it
False consensus effect
Tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors
Correlation
Measure of the extent to which two factors vary together
Illusory correlation
A perceived nonexistent correlation
Random assignment
Assigning participants to experimental and control conditions by chance
Standard deviation
A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score
Statistical significance
A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance
Social psychology
Study of how we think about influence and relate to one another
Conformity
Adjusting ones behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard
Social facilitation
Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others
Deindividuation
The loss of self awareness and self-restraint in situations that foster arousal and anonymity
Group polarization
If a group is like-minded, discussion strengthens it’s prevailing opinions
Stereotype
A generalized belief about a group of people
Scapegoat theory
Theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame