MAJOR FIELD TEST IN PSYCHOLOGY STUDY GUIDE 2024 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION

MAJOR FIELD TEST IN PSYCHOLOGY STUDY GUIDE 2024 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION Introspection Focusing on inner sensations, images and feelings. Wundt used this approach as did James with the stream of consciousness. Behaviorists John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner dismissed introspection and redefined psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior. Humanistic Psychology Rebelled against both Behaviorism and Freudian psychology. Pioneers Carl Rogers and Maslow emphasized the importance of current environmental influences on our growth potential. Psychology Science of behavior and mental processes. Nature-nurture issue The controversy over the relative contributions of biology and experience to the development of our traits and behaviors. Biopsychosocial approach Considers the influences of biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors. Applied research practical research- industrial organizational psychologists Hindsight bias The tendency to believe after learning an outcome, that we would have foreseen it. The I knew it all along phenomenon) Overconfidence Humans tend to think they know more than they do. Theory An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events Hypothesis Testable prediction Case study Examines one individual in depth in hope of revealing things true of us all Naturalistic observation Observing and recording behavior in a naturally occurring situation without trying to manipulate or control the situation Correlation the extent to which two factors vary together. Positive/negative ranges from -1 to 1. Correlation does not imply causation. Experiment Enable to the researcher to focus on the possible effects of one or more factors by 1) manipulating the factors of interest and 2) holding constant other factors Experimental group receives a treatment Control group receives a pseudotreatment double-blind procedure