Purdue Psych 120|139 Final Exam Review Questions And Answers

Psychology - ️️️The scientific study of behavior and mind Mind - ️️️mean contents and processes of subjective experience Behavior - ️️️The activities of cells within the brain and even internal thoughts and feelings Clinical Psychologists - ️️️Specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, phobias, and schizophrenia. Applied Psychologists - ️️️Extend the principles of scientific psychology to practical problems in the world. Examples: School, industrial, forensic, etc. Research Psychologists - ️️️Psychologists who try to discover the basic principles of behavior and mind. Try to do experiments to improve memory, assess situations, etc. Confounding Variable - ️️️An uncontrolled variable that changes along with the independent variable. Dependent Variable - ️️️Behavior measured or observed in an experiment. Independent Variable - ️️️The aspect of the environment that is manipulated in an experiment. It must consist of at least two conditions. Placebo - ️️️An inactive, or inert, substance that resembles an experimental substance