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| Having to do with an organism's physical processes. |
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| Having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding of the world. |
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| The scientific study of behaviour that is tested through scientific research. |
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| An prediction abut behaviour that is tested though scientific research. |
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| A set of assumptions used to explain scientific phenomena for its own sake. |
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| The pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake. |
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| Discovering ways to use scientific findings to accomplish practical goals. |
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| A general approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized. |
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| A psychologist who studied the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences. |
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| A method of self-observation in which participants report their thoughts and feelings. |
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| A psychologist who studied the function of consciousness. |
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| A psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts influence human behaviour, feelings, and thoughts. |
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| A psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behaviour based on their response to events in the environment. |
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| A psychologist that believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth. |
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| A psychologist who studies how we process, store, retrieve, and use information, and how thought processes influence our behaviour. |
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| A psychologist who studies how physical and chemical changes in our body influence behaviour. |
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| Sociocultural Psychologist |
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| A psychologist who studies how ethnic and cultural differences affect how we interpret behaviour. |
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| A set of standards that emphasizes careful observation. |
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| A scientist who studies the mind and behaviour of humans and animals. |
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| A branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioural disorders. |
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| A psychologist who diagnoses and treats patients with emotional disturbances. |
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| A psychologist who helps people deal with everyday life. |
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| Developmental Psychologist |
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| A psychologist that studies how a mind matures and changes over time. |
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| A psychologist who is concerned with helping students learn. |
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| A psychologist who may work in a mental health or social welfare agency. |
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| A psychologist who uses psychological concepts to make the workplace a more satisfying environment. |
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| Experimental Psychologist |
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| A psychologist who studies sensation, perception, learning, motivation, and emotion in laboratory conditions. |
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| The small group of participants that a researcher studies. |
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| Observation of the subjects in their natural environment. |
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| Intense investigation of one or more participants. |
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| Data is obtained by asking many individuals a set of questions. |
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| Data is collected over a long span of time to observe how characteristics change over time. |
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| Data is collected from groups of different ages so that conclusions can be drawn about differences due to age. |
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| The measure of a relationship between two variables. |
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| An educated guess about the relationship between two variables. |
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| Any factor that is capable of change. |
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| The group to which an independant variable is applied. |
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| The group to which an independant variable is not applied. |
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| A situation in which a researcher's expectations influence his or her own behaviour and thereby influence the participant's behaviour. |
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| An experiment in which the participants are aware of which participants received the treatment. |
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| An experiment in which the participants nor the experimenter are aware of which participants received the treatment. |
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| A change in a participant's illness or behaviour that results from a belief that the treatment will have an effect rather than from the actual treatment. |
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| The branch of mathematics concerned with summarizing and making meaningful inferences from collections of data. |
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| The listing and summarizing of data in a practical, efficient way. |
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| An arrangement of data that indicates how often a particular score or observation occurs. |
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| A graph of frequency shaped frequency distribution shaped like a symmetrical curve. |
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| Number that describes something about the average score of a distribution. |
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| Measure of difference, or spread of data. |
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| A measure of variability that describes the average distance of every score from the mean. |
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| Describes the direction and strength between two sets of variables. |
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| Numerical methods used to determine wether or not research data support a hypothesis or wether results were due to chance. |
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