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AP Psychology-unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| APA | American Psychological Association |
| Applied Research | To solve a specific, practical issue affecting an individual or a group |
| Basic Research | Further Knowledge without obvious or immediate benefit |
| Biopsychosocial Approach | Considers biological, psychological, and social factors in understanding health, illness, and health care delivery |
| Case Study | Intensive study about a person or a group of people; Heavily analyzed to seek patterns and causes of behaviors |
| Clinical Psychology | Specialty that provide clinical or counseling services to asses and treat mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | Specialty that studies how the brain enables the mind |
| Confounding Variable | 3rd variable that influences both the independent and the dependent variables |
| Community Psychology | Specialty that researches problems within a community and assess individual needs |
| Control Group | Participants that do not receive the experimental change |
| Correlation | Relationship between two variables Correlation≠Causation |
| Correlation Coefficient | Shows the direction ans strength of a relationship between two variables |
| Counseling Psychology | Focus on normative development and mental heath issues and challenges faces by individuals |
| Debriefing | when researchers use a form of deception, they would then explain why and the purpose of it |
| Dependent Variable | Variable that is affected by the independent variable |
| Descriptive Statistics | Measures of central tendency are used to describe the typical, average, and center of a distribution score |
| Developmental Psychology | Focus on human growth and changes in different developmental stages |
| Double-Blind Study | Neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment |
| Dualism | The view that the mind and the brain are two separate things |
| Educational Psychology | The study of how people learn, including teaching methods, instructional processes, and individual differences in learning |
| Empiricism | The idea that all learning comes from only experience and observations |
| Experimental Group | Group that receives the change or the treatment |
| Experimental Psychology | Uses scientific methods to collect data and perform research |
| Experimenter Bias | Cognitive bias that occurs when experimenters allow their expectations to affect their interpretation of observations |
| Forensic Psychology | The study of clinical psychology in legal situations |
| Frequency Distribution | The pattern of frequencies of a variable |
| Functionalism | Mental states are identified by what they do rather than what they are made of |
| Health Psychology | Focuses on how biological, social, ans psychological factors influence health and fitness |
| Hindsight Bias | One becomes convinced they accurately predicted an event before it occurred |
| Human Factors Psychology | Study how people interact with machines and technology |
| Illusory Correlation | When the observer sees a relationship that wasn't there in the information presented |
| Independent Variable | The part of an experiment that is manipulated or changed |
| Industrial-Organization Psychology | Focuses on the behavior of employees in the workplace |
| Inferential Statistics | Take data from samples and make generalizations about a population |
| Informed Consent | A person's voluntary agreement to participate in a procedure after being told and understand the potential benefits and possible risks |
| Institutional Review Board | Federally-mandated, locally-administered groups charged with evaluating risks and benefits of human participant research |
| Levels of Analysis | The various ways of observation in psychology (biological,cognitive,sociocultural) |
| Monsim | The position that reality consists of a single substance, whether it is identified as mind, matter, or god |
| Natural Selection | Survival of the fittest |
| Naturalistic Observation | Research method that involves observing subjects in their natural environment |
| Nature Vs. Nurture | Pre-wiring, biological Vs. external factors, life experiences, exposure |
| Operational Definition | A description in terms of operations and/or procedures by which it could be observed and measured |
| P-Value | 0.05 |
| Personality Psychology | The study of how personal characteristics, traits, and habits develop and influence the behaviors of individuals |
| Placebo | A fake treatment designed with no active pharmaceutical element to act as a control in testing new drugs |
| Placebo Effect | When an improvement of symptoms is observed, despite using a nonactive treatment |
| Positive Psychology | The scientific study of human flourishing, and an applied approach to optimal functioning |
| Psychiatry | The study and treatment of mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behavior |
| Psychology | The scientific study of the human mind and its functions |
| Psychometric | A branch of clinical or applied psychology dealing with the use and application of mental measurement |
| Random Assignment | The use of chance procedures in psychology experiments |
| Random Selection | How the sample is drawn from the population |
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