Psyc 107

To extend principles of scientific psychology to practical, everyday problems.

• A type of applied psychologist.
• Work with students in primary and secondary schools to hep them perform academically and socially.

• A type of applied psychologist.
• Employed in industry to help improve morale, train new recruits, help managers establish effective lines of communication with their employees.

• A type of applied psychologist
• Key role in design and engineering of new products (design of a new kitchen)

Like applied psychologist, try to discover the basic principles of behavior and mind

• A type of research psychologist
• Concerned with the internal factors that lead people to act consistently across situations and also how people differ

• A type of research psychologist
• Focus on higher mental process such as memory, learning, and reasoning

• A type of research psychologist
• Seek to understand how biological or genetic factors influence and determine behavior

• A type of research psychologist
• Study how behavior and internal mental processing change over life

• A type of research psychologist
• Interested in how people think about, influence, and relate to eachother

The idea that knowledge comes directly from experience

• A blank tablet
• Aristotle's belief

A school of psychology proposing that the only proper subject matter of psychology is observable behavior rather than immediate conscious experience

The idea that some knowledge is innate (present at birth)

• Established first psychology laboratory
• Founder of modern psychology

The argument that were born as blank tablets or that were born with an inherited group of skills

The proper way to understand mind and behavior is to first analyze their function and purpose

Understanding the mind and breaking it down into basic parts

• A multistep technique that generates empirical knowledge
• Knowledge that is derived from systematic observations of the world

Methods designed to observe and describe behavior

A descriptive research technique in which the efforts are focused on a single case, usually individually

A procedure guaranteeing that everyone in the population had an equal likelihood of being selected for that sample

Psychological tests that measure your ability to learn or acquire knowledge in a particular subject

Average of a set of scores

Middle point in an ordered set of scores half of the scores fall at below the median score and half the scores fall and above the median score

Most occurring data

An indication of how much individual scores differ or vary from the mean

Difference between the largest and smallest score

• Indicates whether two variables vary together in a systematic way
• It varies from +1.00 to -1.00

Technique in which the investigator actively manipulates the environment to observe its effect on behavior

The extent to which results generalize to other situations or are representative of real life

At the conclusion of an experimental session, informing the participants about general purpose of the experiment, including any deception involved

An educated guess

• The aspect of the environment that is manipulated in an experiment
• Must be at least two conditions

• The extent to which an experiment has effectively controlled for confounding variables
• Internally valid experiments allow of the determination of causality

Uncontrolled variable that changes along with the independent variable

Inactive, or innert, substance that resembles an experiment substance

• Neither participants nor research observers are aware of who has been assigned to the experimental and control groups
• Used to control for both subject and experimenter expectancies

The principle that before consenting to participate in research, people should be fully informed about any significant factors that could affect their willingness to participate

Personal information obtained from a participant in research or therapy should not be revealed without the individuals permission