PSY110 Unit 1 Exam | Latest update Already Passed A+ Graded

PSY110 Unit 1 Exam | Latest update Already Passed A+ Graded Cross-species Comparisons - help us compare structure and function between humans and animals, lends ability to perform unethical studies Biological/Physiological Psychology - study of the brain, nervous system, genetics and effects of medications on behavior Cognitive Psychology - study of mental processes, memory, thinking and decision-making Developmental Psychology - study of changes over the lifespan Personality Psychology - study of consistencies over time and how we get to be the way we are Social Psychology - study of how people are affected by their social environment and interpersonal relationships Clinical and Counseling Psychology - study of psychological disorders, causes, treatments and prevention structuralism - based on idea that conscious experience broken down into underlying parts functionalism - based on idea that mind and behavior have an adaptive purpose psychoanalysis - therapeutic approach to bring patient's unconscious mind to awareness Gestalt Theory - whole of personal experience is different that the sum of its parts culture - the beliefs, values, rules and customs that exist within a group of people who share a common language and environment and that are transmitted through learning from one generation to the next behaviorism - psychological approach emphasizing roles on environmental forces in producing behavior Instructional Review Boards (IRBs) - groups responsible for ensuring research is meeting accepted standards of science and is ethical Ethical Research Components (5) - privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, deception, risks privacy - not ethical to observe private behaviors without consent confidentiality - participant info must be kept secret to prevent people from linking others to the study deception - if deception is used the participants must be informed after the study to why such deception was used in the study risks - cannot ask subjects to endure unreasonable pain or discomfort random sample - a sample that fairly represents the population because each member of the population had an equal chance of being included random assignment - placing research participants into the conditions of an experiment in such a way that each participant has an equal chance of being assignment to any level of the independent variable operation definition - specify exactly how variables are measured or quantified (e.g. lots of sugar = 20g/day in diet) population - whole group of interest sample - select group of cases from the population biased sample - not everyone in population has opportunity to be equally selected