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3 reasons why psychologists like using surveys - CORRECT ANSWER: 1. A survey is the
easiest way to get a large participant sample.
2. Surveys are a very efficient research methodology.
3. Psychologists who are interested in having people report their own thoughts and feelings are
often best served by using a survey design.
6 Psychology perspectives - CORRECT ANSWER: Behavioral, developmental, clinical,
biological, sociocultural, cognitive.
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Behavioral psychology - CORRECT ANSWER: Primarily study human behavior, focusing on
the process of learning and motivation.
Bio-psycho-social model - CORRECT ANSWER: The most common approach to combining
different psych perspectives.
Holistic view of human functioning Biological - address biological factors that lead to a behavior
- i.e. the way our nervous system operates or our genetic inheritance.
Psychological - factors like learning, motivation, and personality are necessary to understand
human behavior.
Social - factors like relationships and culture affect behavior.
, Biological Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER: Focus on how the body is linked to thought and
behavior. (genetics, hormones, anatomy)
Can tests be reliable without being valid? - CORRECT ANSWER: Yes - scores can be consistent
each time you take a test but the test may not be accurate with what you're trying to measure.
A test can also be valid without being reliable - test may accurately measure what it claims to
measure but the way the questions are designed leads to different results each time you take the
test.
Case studies - CORRECT ANSWER: involves interviewing one person in great detail to
intensely study one person at a time.
Clinical psychology - CORRECT ANSWER: Focuses on mental health and mental illness.
Includes psychodynamic psychology and humanistic psychology (2 therapy models)
Cognitive Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER: Primarily study human thought. - intelligence
and memory. Arose after behaviorism.
Content validity - CORRECT ANSWER: If a test measures the content it claims to measure, it
has high content validity.
correlation coefficient - CORRECT ANSWER: a statistical index of the relationship between
two things (from -1 to +1)
Correlation study - CORRECT ANSWER: Researcher wants to see if two variables are related to
one another. Participants come as they are and details about participants are compared to one
another.
Descriptive statistics - CORRECT ANSWER: Used to summarize or describe data from samples.
Analyzing measures of central tendency. The purpose is to describe the sample.