Psychology Test 1 Study Guide (Chapter 1)

Psychology

• The study of mental activity and behavior, which are based on brain processes.

• Research in psychology and other fields that suggest how you can improve your study skills, learning, and academic performance.

• The 5 interconnected areas of empirical research in modern psychology (Biological, Cognitive, Developmental, Social / personality, Mental / physical health).

• any difference between people that becomes apparent in a specific context.

  
  

Science of Learning

• Research in psychology and other fields that suggest how you can improve your study skills, learning, and academic performance.

• The 5 interconnected areas of empirical research in modern psychology (Biological, Cognitive, Developmental, Social / personality, Mental / physical health).

• any difference between people that becomes apparent in a specific context.

• A series of interconnected ideas or concepts that explains what is observed in research and that makes predictions about future events.

Domains Of Physiology

• The 5 interconnected areas of empirical research in modern psychology (Biological, Cognitive, Developmental, Social / personality, Mental / physical health).

• any difference between people that becomes apparent in a specific context.

• A series of interconnected ideas or concepts that explains what is observed in research and that makes predictions about future events.

• Research methods that provide a systematic and objective snapshot of what is occurring at a certain point of time.

Diversity

• any difference between people that becomes apparent in a specific context.

• explanation of how some mental process or behavior occurs.

• Research methods that provide a systematic and objective snapshot of what is occurring at a certain point of time.

• A series of interconnected ideas or concepts that explains what is observed in research and that makes predictions about future events.

Theory

• A series of interconnected ideas or concepts that explain what is observed in research and that makes predictions about future events.

• Research methods that provide a systematic and objective snapshot of what is occurring at a certain point of time.

• errors that occur in observations caused by the observer’s expectations.

• Researchers ask questions, and the respondent can tell their experiences, opinions, and attitudes.

Descriptive methods

• Research methods that provide a systematic and objective snapshot of what is occurring at a certain point of time.

• errors that occur in observations caused by the observer’s expectations.

• Researchers ask questions, and the respondent can tell their experiences, opinions, and attitudes.

• 2 main problems prevent researchers from specifying a cause-and-effect relationship between factors.

Observer bias

• errors that occur in observations caused by the observer’s expectations.

• Researchers ask questions, and the respondent can tell their experiences, opinions, and attitudes.

• 2 main problems prevent researchers from specifying a cause-and-effect relationship between factors.

• to ensure that your system is objective and systematic. It can describe and measure variables so they can be understood objectively.

Interviews

• Researchers ask questions, and the respondent can tell their experiences, opinions, and attitudes.

• 2 main problems prevent researchers from specifying a cause-and-effect relationship between factors.

• to ensure that your system is objective and systematic. It can describe and measure variables so they can be understood objectively.

• In an experiment, a group of participants that receives either no treatment or a baseline manipulation that is expected to have little or no impact. This group serves as a comparison to the experimental group.

Causality

• 2 main problems prevent researchers from specifying a cause-and-effect relationship between factors.

• to ensure that your system is objective and systematic. It can describe and measure variables so they can be understood objectively.

• In an experiment, a group of participants that receives either no treatment or a baseline manipulation that is expected to have little or no impact. This group serves as a comparison to the experimental group.

• Placing research participants into the conditions of an experiment in such a way that each participant has an equal chance of being assigned to any level of the independent variable.

Operational definition

• to ensure that your system is objective and systematic. It can describe and measure variables so they can be understood objectively.

• In an experiment, a group of participants that receives either no treatment or a baseline manipulation that is expected to have little or no impact. This group serves as a comparison to the experimental group.

• Placing research participants into the conditions of an experiment in such a way that each participant has an equal chance of being assigned to any level of the independent variable.

• Increasing your knowledge and skills even in areas that are challenging for you.