Week 2 Flashcards
What are the 3 scientific methods?
Curiosity
Skeptical
Humility
Define curiosity
You tend to wonder and ask questions if it affects others
Define skeptical
You think about it more deeply and tried to connect it with facts by which matches
Define humility
Help us discard predictions
4 steps of thinking critically
- Evaluating the source
- Judging the source
- Assesing conclusions
- Examining our own assumptions
Define illusory correlation
Agreeing with one person fact or opinion while ignoring others that don’t allow in your beliefs.
Define overconfidence
We think we know more than we do in our confidence can drive us to a quick solution rather than correct thinking
Define pattern-seeking
We tend to seek patterns in different events
Hindsight bias
You experience some gut feeling. You get the “I knew it all along”
What are the scientific steps
A theory, hypothesis, research and observation.
Define basic research
It’s seeking knowledge of it rather than solving it
Define apply research
It focuses on finding solution
What are the types of research methods?
descriptive, correlational, and experimental.
Define descriptive
Describing behaviors, often by using case studies, naturalistic observation, or surveys.
Define correlational
Associate different variables
Define experimental
Manipulate; or change, variables to discover their effects
Define naturalistic observation
Recording the natural behavior of many individuals
Define Case studies
In death analysis of either individuals or group
Define survey
Interviewing people in order to come up with a conclusion based on the question and measurement in adds up
Define correlational methods
It identifies the relationship but not the cause
Define psychological test
To meadure individual differences abilities
Neuroscience
How the brain enables emotions, memory, and sensory experiences.
Evolutionary
How certain traits are passed down from generations to the next which helps our similarities
Behaviors genetics
how our genes and our environment influence our individual differences
Psychodynamic
how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
Dual processing
the principle that our mind processes information at the same time on separate conscious and unconscious tracks.
Counseling
helps with people to cope with challenges and cries (including school, work, and relationship issues)
Clinical psychologist
focus on assessing and treating people with mental, emotional, and behavior disorders.
Psychiatrists
they provide psychotherapy, are medical doctors. They are licensed to prescribe drugs and otherwise treat physical causes of psychological disorders.
Community
works to create social and physical and environments that are health for al. They prevent bullying, like improve culture of a school or neighborhood, and how to increase bystander intervention
Positive psychology
It foucs on the positive events with positive exercise (joy, inspiration,love, more)
