Describe the current trends in psychology.
Modern psychologists emphasize and apply psychological principles in various ways.
Diverse field still influenced by historical perspectives, especially behaviorism and
Freud
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Describe the current trends in psychology.
Modern psychologists emphasize and apply psychological principles in various ways.
Diverse field still influenced by historical perspectives, especially behaviorism and
Freud. APA reflects field's diversity. Has 56 different divisions, ranging from
exercise/sport psychology, behavioral neuroscience, comparative psychology, religion
and spirituality, etc. Now feel no one right way to study psychology, but do focus on
scientific method to properly research.
Identify the various scientific methods in the field of psychology.
Scientific method important to psychology. Subjective nature of things it seeks to study
such as the human mind, behavior, emotions, cannot be directly measured. Behavioral
observations and self-report data can be considered lacking in scientific rigor. Some
ways the scientific method are used in psychology - situational experiments to study
social behavior, surveys to gather health data, biological psychologist working in a lab
with a neurologist, developmental psychologists observing classroom behavior. Use
descriptive, experimental, and correlational methods. Three main categories of research
- descriptive (or qualitative) - correlational - and experimental. Descriptive includes case
studies, naturalistic observations, surveys, archival research, longitudinal studies, and
cross-sectional research. Correlational research is when scientists do not intervene or
change behavior - they simply identify patterns of relationships - can only examine 2
variables at a time. Experimental research goes step further and randomly assigns
people to different conditions. By using hypothesis testing, can make inferences about
how these conditions affect behavior.
Describe the various research methods used in the field of psychology.
Case studies that focus on following one or a few people over a long time. Naturalistic
behavior observation - observing without those studied knowing. archival research -
mining old records to glean from the past. experimental - devising randomly assigned
experiments to test different hypothesis on behavior. longitudinal - studying a group for
a very long time to get accurate records (like 10-20 years).
In order for an experiment to be considered verifiable,
It must be replicated by another researcher
A theory is a/an
Set of ideas that proposed an explanation for observed phenomena
Which organization reviews research conducted using animal subjects?
IACUCJonas wants to understand the relationship between head size and intelligence. What
type of study might he perform?
correlational
A psychologist who is interested in finding out about the lives and experiences of
blended multi-racial families wants to know how such individuals are viewed by their
families, friends, and co-workers and how they view themselves. He conducts a series
of structured interviews with the various individuals and asks specific questions based
on ideas he has that he thinks will be important for understanding this particular life
experience. What type of study is this?
Case study
Research that compares multiple segments of the population at the same time is known
as
Cross-sectional research
The strength and direction of the relationship between two variables is expressed by the
________.
...
If you are studying depression rates during the cold winter months, a potential
________ could be the busy holiday season.
confounding variable
Ryan is conducting an experiment on the type of breakfast eaten by high schoolers and
their wakefulness and alertness during the day. Which is the best way for Ryan to
prevent experimenter bias?
He should not know what the students ate for breakfast.
Maxwell's research group is conducting a study on the relationship between daytime
toddler naps and dinnertime appetite. Some groups are assigned to a 1 ½-2 ½ hour
afternoon nap, some to a 30-60 minutes nap, or some to no nap at all. The amount they
eat for dinner is recorded. In this study, the ________ is the dependent variable and
________ is the control group.
Amount of food eaten, no nap
A popular, new personality test consistently yields the same results when given to the
same people over a period of several months and when administered to similar people.
The test asks so many cultural questions, however, that many think the test does not
accurately measure personality. This test has________ reliability and ________ validity.
high, low
If Maria conducts a study and discovers the results seem consistent enough to not h
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