Psych Vocab Prologue & Ch 1.txt

School of psych - introspection - structure of human mind

School of psych - how mental and behavioral processes function and allow organism to adapt, survive, flourish

Science of behavior and mental processes

Pure science that aims to increase scientific knowledge base

Scientific study that aims to solve specific problems

Branch of psych - studies, assesses, treats disorders

Branch of medicine - practiced by physicians who provide medical treatments and psychological therapy

I knew it all along

Explanation using integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations

Testable prediction

Statement of procedure, defines research variables

One person studied in depth in hope of revealing universal principles

Questioning representative, random sample to know attitudes and behaviors

Overestimating number of people who agree with you

All cases in a group

Sample in which each member has equal opportunity of inclusion

Observing behavior in natural situations

Statistical measure of the relationship between two variables

Scatterplot

Nature-nurture issue

Natural selection

Critical thinking

Replication

Illusory correlation

Research method - manipulate factors - observe effect on mental processes. Random assignment odd participants controls other factors

Experimental procedure - both participants and investigators are blind to who received treatment and placebo

Results caused by expectations alone

Condition of experiment that exposes participants to treatment (independent variable)

Condition of experiment that serves as comparison

Random assignment

Variable being manipulated, effect of this variable is being studied

Experimental factor being measured, changes in response to variable being manipulated

Mean

Median

Mode

Range

Standard deviation

Statistical results that are consistent and obvious (ie. in their difference) have