FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT UNIT 0

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT UNIT 0

PSYCH VOCAB EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Social Desirability Bias

Answer:

Form of response bias where respondents answer in a way that will make them look better to others

Question 2: Psychiatry

Answer:

medicine devoted to diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental illness.

Question 3: Correlation Coefficient

Answer:

statistical index of the relationship between two things (-1 to +1)

Question 4: Structuralism

Answer:

first school of psychology; focused on breaking down the structure of the brain/breaking down processes into simple components

Question 5: Variation

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existence of qualitative differences in form, structure, behavior, and physiology among a population

Question 6: Research Confederates

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person who acts as a participant in an experiment but is actually working for the researchers

Question 7: Normal Curve

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Normal distribution with symmetry at the measure of center

Question 8: Double Blind

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neither the researchers nor the subjects know whether a participant is getting the treatment or a placebo.

Question 9: Correlational Study

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type of research design that looks at relationships between two or more variables

Question 10: Confidentiality

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the state of keeping secret/private

Question 11: Eclectic

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Approach to psychotherapy which uses techniques from various forms of therapy

Question 12: Debriefing

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post-experimental explanation of a study, including its purpose and any deceptions to its participants.

Question 13: Meta Analysis

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procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

Question 14: Introspection

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the examination of one's conscious thoughts and feelings.

Question 15: Survey

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asking participants questions to collect info on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

Question 16: Histogram

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graph of continuous data using bars of different heights.

Question 17: Experimenter Bias

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unintentional influence of researcher's expectations, beliefs, or ideas on the outcome of a study or research experiment.

Question 18: Statistical Significance

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expression of how rare your results are based on an assumption of the null; smaller=more rare

Question 19: Psychometrics

Answer:

study within psychology; theory and techniques of measurement for mental capacities and processes.

Question 20: Psychoanalytic

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theories and treatments/techniques for treating mental disorders that deal with the UNCONCIOUS MIND based on the theory that our present is shaped by our past.

Question 21: Behaviorism

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view that psychology (1) should be an objective science and that (2) it studies the behavior without reference to mental processes. Most researchers agree with one and not two.

Question 22: Median

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meddle score of a distribution

Question 23: Mean

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arithmetic average of a distribution

Question 24: Population

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the items being studied; what does your sample represent?

Question 25: Placebo

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substance/treatment with no effect to test efficacy of a treatment

Question 26: Hypothesis

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a testable prediction, often implied by a theory

Question 27: Dependent Variable

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outcome factor; may change in response to manipulation of the independent variable.

Question 28: Experimental Psychology

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study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method