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The first research in psychology investigated consciousness using a technique called
CORRECT ANSWERS Introspection
A psychologist that might work as a consultant for a large financial service company
CORRECT ANSWERS Industrial Organizational psychologist
Behaviorist perspective CORRECT ANSWERS Observe the effectiveness of rewards
for improving academic improvemnt
Perspective that places emphasis on personal development and fulfillment of individual
potential CORRECT ANSWERS Humanistic perspective
Describes behavior in terms of what best suits an organism in successful reproduction
and survival CORRECT ANSWERS Evolutionary perspective
Perspective that states unconscious motivations and desires shape human behavior
CORRECT ANSWERS Psychodynamic
Gestalt CORRECT ANSWERS Organizations pieces of the pattern into a whole picture
Carl Rogers CORRECT ANSWERS Played a key role in the development of humanistic
perspective
Response Variable CORRECT ANSWERS Is measured after treatment
Negative/Inverse CORRECT ANSWERS When correlation is negative. Ex: Test scores
go down as TV watching time goes up
Describes strength and direction of relationship between variables CORRECT
ANSWERS Correlational
Practice of repeating experiments on different subjects or under different conditions
CORRECT ANSWERS Replication
Double Blind Condition CORRECT ANSWERS Best method to control placebo effect in
experimentor and subject
No change, no difference, no new finding CORRECT ANSWERS Null hypothesis
Allows us to draw casual conclusion CORRECT ANSWERS Experimental research
, Representative CORRECT ANSWERS Sample resembles population which you wish to
generalize
Debreifing CORRECT ANSWERS Full explanation of nature and purpose of a study
after its conclusion
Arithmetical average CORRECT ANSWERS mean
Correlation is .82 CORRECT ANSWERS Strong and Positive correlation
Mean is 3, SD is 1, raw score is 4.5 CORRECT ANSWERS Z-score is 1.5
Examples of nominal data CORRECT ANSWERS Mental illness, ethnic background,
political affiliation
Bell Curve CORRECT ANSWERS Normal distribution
Percent of z-scores above 3.00 CORRECT ANSWERS 13
Sum of the difference of scores around the mean CORRECT ANSWERS Zero
Estimates the typical distance of any score from the mean CORRECT ANSWERS
Standard deviation
Empiricism CORRECT ANSWERS Emphasizes that obsevation leads to knowledge
Experiment v. Observation CORRECT ANSWERS In experiment, researches impose a
treatment in a group to observe results
William James CORRECT ANSWERS Functionalism
Structuralists are closely related to CORRECT ANSWERS Cognitive Pyschologists
Charles Darwin CORRECT ANSWERS Evolutionary founder
Psychometrist CORRECT ANSWERS Design tests to measure psycholgocial variables
Generalizability CORRECT ANSWERS The extent to which the results can be applied
to a larger population
Social desirability CORRECT ANSWERS Tendency to answer interviewer questions to
make self looks better, or to answer with what they think the interviewer wants to hear
Cognitive emphasis CORRECT ANSWERS How people encode, store, and retrieve
memories
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