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| scientific study of thought and behavior |
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- severe psychological disorders
- research causes of disorders & treatment
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- less severe psychological cases
- consultations of issues w/ clients
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- research (laboratory)
- basic processes
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| study of physical, mental, emotional, & social development across entire life span. |
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| Stufy of mental processes: memory problem solving, planning, consciousness, & language. |
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| study of individual differences in personality & their affects on behavior; development of personality tests. |
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| Measurement issues & data analysis; development of math modes & behavior |
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| Industrial/organizational psychology |
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| example behavior in work settings, study relating to factors of employee morals and performance |
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| study of how living among others influences thought, feeling, &behavior |
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| factors in sports & exercise |
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- empiricism: view that knowledge and thoughts come from experience
- blank slate.
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- 1st lab in Germany
- wanted study of consciousness
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| Breaking down of the conscios experience into basic elements to see how they are related.(introspection-observation of one's own conscious experience) |
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| Psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness not its structure (differences in gender, development in children, etc) |
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- psychoanalysis
- unconscious & early developments
- Psychodynamic theory: unconscious desires control behavior
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founded behavorism
nature vs nurture |
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co founded behavorism
organisms repeat behaviors w/ positive outcomes |
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| personal growth as a way of reaching ones highest potential |
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| understand what adaptive problems the human mind may have solved in the distant past and the affect of evolution on behavior |
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environment constantly interacts w/ bio to shape who we are &what we do |
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- Observe
- Predict
- Test
- Interpret
- Communicate & replicate
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| practices that claim to be science but do not use scientific method to come to their conclusions |
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| entire group a researcher is interested in |
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| subsets of population studies in research project |
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| studies in which researcher makes no predictions and does not control or manipulate anything. |
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| studies that measure how related two or more variables are similar correlation does not mean causation. |
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| variable that is controlled/manipulated by the experimenter |
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| outcome or response that the experimenter measures |
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| research that accurately reflects population of people one is studying |
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| psychologist observes 1 person over long period of time |
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| participants who recieve treatment to change behavior |
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| participants who are treated in same way as experimental group, but dont recieve independent variable/treatment. |
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| Participants dont know experimental condition to whish they have been assigned |
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| neither participants nor researchers know who has been assigned to which condition |
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| treatment that seems the same but lacks active substance |
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combine research, draw conclusions
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| peoples written or oral accounts of their thoughts, feelings, or actions |
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| based on systematic observation of peoples actions either in their normal environments or in a lab |
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| used to collect data on bodily responses such as blood pressure or heart rate used to determine changes in psychological state |
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| mathematical procedures for collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting numerical data |
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| arithmetic average of a series of numbers |
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| score seperating lower half of scores from the upper half |
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| most frequently occuring score |
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| statistical measure of how much scores in a sample vary around the mean |
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| standards of right and wrong |
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| decieve the participants, but then debriefing them after completion |
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| organizations that evaluate research proposals to make sure research involving humans does not cuase or undue human harm |
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| genetic material contained in the nucleus of a cell |
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