Psychology Quiz 1

anything that an animal or person does that can be studied, observed, or recorded

external activity of your mind

1. Describe ( what is happening) 2. Explain (why the behavior is happening 3. Predict (when will it happen again) 4. Control

1. how stable is our personality 2. How smart we are 3. Nature vs. Nurture

Joseph Gall

December 1879

the father of psychology wanted to break consciences down to its most basic elements(study the structure of the mind)

reporting thoughts and what you feel

(behavior) 1920's Watson

(humanism) 1960's -Rogers *free will and self actualization

thoughts and thinking

Social and cultural

(biology) they look at how your genes and hormones all interact

survive and reproduce

When you observe someone in their natural environment

when you observe someone in a lab setting *rarely or infrequently

choose to access a similar attitude about a certain topic

Only type of research where you can find cause and effect

the variable that the experimenter modifies or manipulates

what they are measuring

group that is exposed to the independent variable

not exposed to the independent variable

any other variable that can explain your results

when participants are only exposed to 1 group

participants are exposed to ALL groups in the study

when none of the participants know what group they are in

When the researcher and the participants doesn't know what group they are in

the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things

Unconscious the part of your mind that you can not voluntarily access or control

how your body adapts to its environment