Psyc 100 Exam 1 SVSU
experimental psychology - ✔️✔️primary activity is conducting research
Psychology - ✔️✔️the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
3 parts that constitute Psychology - ✔️✔️Scientific study, studies behavior, includes
study of other animals including humans
biological psychology (physiological psychology) - ✔️✔️focuses on relationship
between behavior and physiological events within the brain and the rest of the nervous
system
clinical psychology - ✔️✔️area involved in the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral
problems
counseling psychology - ✔️✔️Involved in the diagnosis and treatment of problems of
adjustment. Tend to deal with less serious problems, often work in schools
educational psychology - ✔️✔️Concerned with the study and application of learning
and teaching methods. Focuses on areas such as improving educational curricula and
training teachers
Cognitive Psychology - ✔️✔️Focuses on how organisms process information and
investigates processes such as thinking, memory, language, problem solving, and
creativity
developmental psychology - ✔️✔️concerned with how people become who they are,
from conception to death
social psychology - ✔️✔️Field concerned with understanding the impact of social
environments and social processes on individuals
personality psychology - ✔️✔️Focuses on exploring the uniqueness of the individual,
describing the elements that make up human personality, and investigating how
personality develops and how it influences people's activities
industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology - ✔️✔️Concerned with using psychological
concepts to make the workplace a more satisfying environment for employees and
management
, survey - ✔️✔️Provides descriptive information in which a representative sample of
people is questioned about their behaviors or attitudes.
Sample - ✔️✔️Selected segment of a larger population that is being studied in a
psychological research. Two kinds, representative and random
representative sample - ✔️✔️Critical subgroups are represented according to their
incidence in the larger population that the researcher is studying
random sample - ✔️✔️Selected by using random procedures
Observational Method - ✔️✔️Research providing descriptive information, in which
participants are observed as they go about their usual activities
naturalistic observation - ✔️✔️Observation in a natural setting
observer bias - ✔️✔️Tendency of an observer to look more into things that aren't
actually there to accompany their expectations
observer effect - ✔️✔️Tendency of participants to modify behavior because they're
being observed
correlation method - ✔️✔️Uses statistical techniques to determine the degree of
relationship between variables
coefficient of correlation - ✔️✔️Size of correlation = how strong relationship is
positive correlation - ✔️✔️Correlation going up. Variable 1 UP, Variable 2 UP
Negative correlation - ✔️✔️Correlation going down. Variable 1 UP, Variable 2 DOWN
experimental research - ✔️✔️Conducted in precisely controlled lab conditions which
are then measured by their reactions
independent variable - ✔️✔️Condition that is manipulated to determine changes in
behavior
dependent variable - ✔️✔️What is being measured. Results from manipulation of the
independent variable
experimental group - ✔️✔️Receives treatment. Exposed to different independent
variables
experimental psychology - ✔️✔️primary activity is conducting research
Psychology - ✔️✔️the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
3 parts that constitute Psychology - ✔️✔️Scientific study, studies behavior, includes
study of other animals including humans
biological psychology (physiological psychology) - ✔️✔️focuses on relationship
between behavior and physiological events within the brain and the rest of the nervous
system
clinical psychology - ✔️✔️area involved in the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral
problems
counseling psychology - ✔️✔️Involved in the diagnosis and treatment of problems of
adjustment. Tend to deal with less serious problems, often work in schools
educational psychology - ✔️✔️Concerned with the study and application of learning
and teaching methods. Focuses on areas such as improving educational curricula and
training teachers
Cognitive Psychology - ✔️✔️Focuses on how organisms process information and
investigates processes such as thinking, memory, language, problem solving, and
creativity
developmental psychology - ✔️✔️concerned with how people become who they are,
from conception to death
social psychology - ✔️✔️Field concerned with understanding the impact of social
environments and social processes on individuals
personality psychology - ✔️✔️Focuses on exploring the uniqueness of the individual,
describing the elements that make up human personality, and investigating how
personality develops and how it influences people's activities
industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology - ✔️✔️Concerned with using psychological
concepts to make the workplace a more satisfying environment for employees and
management
, survey - ✔️✔️Provides descriptive information in which a representative sample of
people is questioned about their behaviors or attitudes.
Sample - ✔️✔️Selected segment of a larger population that is being studied in a
psychological research. Two kinds, representative and random
representative sample - ✔️✔️Critical subgroups are represented according to their
incidence in the larger population that the researcher is studying
random sample - ✔️✔️Selected by using random procedures
Observational Method - ✔️✔️Research providing descriptive information, in which
participants are observed as they go about their usual activities
naturalistic observation - ✔️✔️Observation in a natural setting
observer bias - ✔️✔️Tendency of an observer to look more into things that aren't
actually there to accompany their expectations
observer effect - ✔️✔️Tendency of participants to modify behavior because they're
being observed
correlation method - ✔️✔️Uses statistical techniques to determine the degree of
relationship between variables
coefficient of correlation - ✔️✔️Size of correlation = how strong relationship is
positive correlation - ✔️✔️Correlation going up. Variable 1 UP, Variable 2 UP
Negative correlation - ✔️✔️Correlation going down. Variable 1 UP, Variable 2 DOWN
experimental research - ✔️✔️Conducted in precisely controlled lab conditions which
are then measured by their reactions
independent variable - ✔️✔️Condition that is manipulated to determine changes in
behavior
dependent variable - ✔️✔️What is being measured. Results from manipulation of the
independent variable
experimental group - ✔️✔️Receives treatment. Exposed to different independent
variables
