midterm 1 recall game

Midterm 1 Recall GameHow to take a multiple choice exam?

1. Read the question2. Think of the answer3. Look for the answer you thought of in the

multiple choice options.

Simple Recall

Every other slide contains a question and the next slide the answer, simply flip through the questions and try to figure out what the answer is BEFORE flipping to it.

• If any procedures such as deception were used these must be explained fully

• Sufficient Debriefing

• Each participant has an equal probability of being placed in any of the groups/conditions

• Random Assignment

• Established the first psychological lab in Leipzig Germany 1879

• Wilhelm Wundt

• One variable increases and the other decreases

• Negatively Correlated

• Studies the thoughts emotions and behaviors that define and individual's personal style of interacting with the would

• Personality Psychology

• Mental activity such as thoughts and feelings

• Mind

• The attempt to scientifically break down mental experiences. The analysis of mental structures

• Structuralism

• When the differences between experimental groups tested are unlikely to have occurred by chance

• Statistically Significant

• Concerned with selecting people who are most suitable for particular jobs or designing structures that facilitate collaboration and teamwork

• Industrial/Organizational Psychology

• How does the mind work to enable the organism to adapt to and function in the environment

• Functionalism

• Depends on what is manipulated, what the experimenter is measuring

• Dependent variable

• Concerned with human development and the factors that shape behavior from birth to old age

• Developmental Psychology

• Behavior is a result of conditioning and the environment shapes behavior by reinforcing specific habits

• Behaviorism

• Idea that at birth the human mind is a blank state on which experience writes knowledge and understanding as the individual matures.

• Tabula Rasa

• Measure the degree to which two variables are related

• Correlation Coefficient

• The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

• Psychology

• Something that is controlled and manipulated by the experimenter

• Independent variable

• When neither the experimenter nor the participants know what is expected of the participants

• Double-Blind Experiment

• Participants must agree to participate in the study after being told about anything that might influece their decision

• Informed Consent

• Performs many of the same functions as clinical psychologists although they often deal with less severe problems

• Counseling Psychology

• Something in the would that can change and be manipulated or measured

• Variable

• Use experimental methods to study how people (and other animals) react to sensory stimuli, perceive the world, learn and remember, reason and respond emotionally

• Experimental Psychology

• Look for the relationship between biological processes and behavior

• Biological Psychology

• The action we observe that results from all of this mind/brain activity

• Behavior

• Apply psychological principles to the diagnosis and treatment of emotional and behavioral problems

• Clinical Psychology

• A whole personal experience is much greater than simply the sum of its parts (constituent elements)

• Gestalt Theory

• Concerned with how people perceive and interpret their social world and how their beliefs, emotions, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined persence of others

• Social Psychology

• Observing and recording the nature of one's own perceptions, thoughts, and feelings

• Introspection

• When people's expectations about how they should act or feel changes their behaviors or feelings

• Demand Characteristics

• Mathematical technique used to summarize the data collected for the different conditions

• Statistics

• Variables increase together or decrease together

• Positively Correlated