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behavioral approach
analyse how organisms learn new behaviors or modify exisiting one, depending on wheither events in their environments reward or punish these behaviors
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cognitive approach
focuses on how we process, store, and use information and how this information influences what we attend to, perceive, learn, remember, believe, and feel.
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psychology
is the systematic, scientific study of behaviors and mental processes
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psychometrics
focuses on the measurement of peoples abilities, skills, intelligence, personality, and abnormal behavior
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structuralism
was the study of the most basic elements, promarily sensations and perceptions, that make up our concious mental experiements
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case study
is an indepth analysis of the thoughts, fellings, beliefs, experiences, behaviors or problems of a single individual
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correlation
is an association or relationship between the occurrence of two or more events
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independant variable
is a treatment or somthing that the researcher controls or manipulates
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random selection
means that each paticipant in a sample population has an equal chance of being selected for the experiement
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scientific method
is an approach of gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized
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