AP Psych Unit 1: History and Research

Studies how people sense and perceive the world through introspection (5 senses, subjective)

Founder of structuralism

Studies the evolutionary reasoning behind behavior

Founder of functionalism

The study of behavior and mental processes

Nurture works with what nature provides

Survival of the fittest

To think for oneself and not blindly accept other's arguments

Knowledge comes with experience (experiments advance knowledge)

Pure science aiming to increase scientific knowledge

The guy that said "people are born with a blank slate"

They guy that said "people are born with an innate soul and already know stuff"

The guy that founded empiricism

scientific study that aims to solve practical problems

Psychology focused on assessing, studying, and treating mental disorders

Psychology focused on biological roots of mental disorders and treats with drugs

"I knew it all along"

A belief about something

An educated guess o what would happen (If..., then...)

Defining/clarifying jargon in research

Repeating an experiment

An extensive study on one subject

A questionaire

Overestimating how many people agree with you

The group studied

Ze name (with pop.)

Stalking

r

Scattered, plotted dots

Fake correlation (sharks and ice cream)

Where you test a hypothesis with 2+ groups (one of which is the control)

No one know except the mastermind

Scam water

Experimental group

Control group

Ze name (for groups)

Causes change

What changes

Most often occured

Average

Middle

Highest - lowest

Variation from mean

Cannot have happened by chance (less than 0.5)

Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people

Studies how the unconscious affects

Sigmund Freud

Erickson, Alder, Jung, Horney

Focus on purely observable behavior without connection to mental processes (objective)

The founders of behaviorism

Studies how humans are innately good and with unconditional positive regard we can reach our full potential (hippies and sports coaches)

The founders of humanism

Studies how the brain retrieves an processes information (kissing is seen as a sign of affection)

Studies how the environment causes people to differ from one another

How does society/culture shape our behavior and beliefs

Studies how to find the formula for "happiness"

A study that combines various approaches to analyze the individual

Causation

Relation

a research method that involves observing and noting the behavior of people or other animals to provide a systematic and objective analysis of the behavior

MMM

Random sampling, big population, random assignment, placebo, experiment and control, group matching, counterbalancing

A method of controlling for order effects in a repeated measure design by either including all orders of treatment or by randomly determining the order for each subject

Debriefing, allowed to leave, no coercion, subject physically and mentally safe after study (deception allowed)