Test 1 Flashcards
(32 cards)
Who is the father of psychology?
Wundt
studying behavior in the unconscious mind is..
Psychodynamic
the study of an individual’s potential
Humanistic
the study of brain chemistry and genes
Neurological/biological
What is empiricism?
the idea that science should rely on observation and experimentation
What is structuralism?
exploring the structural elements of the human mind
What is functionalism?
how our mental and behavioral
processes function and how they enable us to adapt
womb to tomb study
developmental psychology
the study that helps optimizes human behavior in workplaces
Industrial/organizational
Believing that you already knew something would happen
hindsight bias
What does a theory do?
Helps organize observations and predicts events
What is a hypothesis?
A testable prediction
What is false conscious effect?
overestimating the extend that others share our beliefs and behaviors
What is observer bias?
only recording observations that match your belief
What happens to the control group?
they are not exposed to the treatment or test
What happens to the experimental group?
They receive the treatment and are being evaluated
What variable is something that is outside of your control?
Confounding variables
the most frequent score
Mode
the average of scores combined
mean
How do you find the mean?
add them together and divide by the amount of scores
what is the middle score?
Median
How do you find range?
The difference between the highest and lowest score
What is standard deviation?
how much scores vary around the mean
Structuralism parents
Wundt and Tichner
