PSY 120 Purdue|100 Exam Questions And Answers

What is psychology? - ️️scientific study of behavior and mind Clinical psychologist - ️️diagnose and treat psychological problems ex: depression, anxiety, etc, work in clinics or practices, applied psychologist - ️️extend principles of scientific psychology to practical problems research psychologist - ️️conduct basic research to discover the principles of behavior and mind mean - ️️average of a set of scores median - ️️middle point in set of scores mode - ️️most frequently occurring score range - ️️top score - bottom score confounding variable - ️️uncontrolled variable that changes along with the independent variable, ex: giving an ad to people, must give them same exact ad, time to read it, time of day, etc, in order to have NO confounding variables dependent variable - ️️behavior that is measured in an experiment