FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH VOCAB EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH VOCAB EXAM

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Question 1: theory vs. hypothesis

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T- using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events. H- a testable prediction, often implied by a theory.

Question 2: random assignment

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dividing participants, every person in the group has an equal chance of participating

Question 3: gestalt psychology

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looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole

Question 4: placebo

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an inert treatment or substance that has no known effects, fake independent variable

Question 5: operational definition

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specific instructions on what you are doing, and how it can be replicated

Question 6: cross-sectional study

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research that involves different groups of people who do not share the same variable of interest (like the variable you're focusing on), but who do share other relevant variables.

Question 7: structuralism

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breaking down mental processes into basic elements/components building blocks of conscious experience

Question 8: debriefing

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a set of procedures including counselling and the giving of information aimed at preventing psychological morbidity and aiding recovery after a traumatic event.

Question 9: population

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the whole group

Question 10: case study

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study that follows one or a small group of people over a *unique* topic

Question 11: humanistic perspective

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believe that people are free to direct their own destinies, potential for growth, reach their *full potential*

Question 12: evolutionary perspective

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how primal survival instincts can influence our behavior, inherit behavioral characteristics (natural selection)

Question 13: hindsight bias

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the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome that one would have foreseen it.

Question 14: cognitive perspective

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how the mind encodes, stores, and processes things and how we behave because of those processes

Question 15: sociocultural perspective

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explores how behavior is shaped by history, society, and culture

Question 16: double-blind

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researcher and participant doesn't know what group their in

Question 17: experiment

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testing a hypothesis by manipulating variables (cause and effect)

Question 18: biological perspective

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*physical* and *chemical* changes in the brain and body influence our behavior

Question 19: informed consent

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the process by which researchers working with human participants describe their research project and obtain the subjects' consent to participate in the research based on the subjects' understanding of the project's methods and goals.

Question 20: control condition

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does not receive any manipulation

Question 21: normal distribution

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an arrangement of data that is symmetrical and forms a bell-shaped pattern where the mean, median and/or mode falls in the centre at the highest peak.

Question 22: empiricism

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states that the only source of knowledge comes through our senses

Question 23: experimental condition

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receives the manipulation/IV

Question 24: psychology

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the study of the mind and human behavior

Question 25: survey

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*questionnaire*

Question 26: correlation

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statistical index used to represent the strength of a relationship between two factors, how much and in what way those factors vary, and how well one factor can predict the other.

Question 27: false consensus effect

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tendency to "see one's own behavioral choices and judgments as relatively common and appropriate to existing circumstances while viewing alternative responses as uncommon, deviant, or inappropriate

Question 28: nature-nurture debate

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• what we think of as pre-wiring and is influenced by genetic inheritance and other biological factors.
• generally taken as the influence of external factors after conception