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Building Blocks 100

This is the educated guess that
researchers make about a phenomenon
before testing begins.

Building Blocks 100

Answer: What is a hypothesis?

Building Blocks 200

Research methods in psychology are
meant to describe, predict, and control
phenomenon. This is the fourth aim.

Building Blocks 200

Answer: What is Explain?

Building Blocks 300

This is the variable that is manipulated
or controlled.

Building Blocks 300

Answer: What is the independent
variable?

Building Blocks 400

If my population and sample are
proportional to each other, I am said to
have achieved this.

Building Blocks 400

Answer: What is a representative
sample?

Building Blocks 500

This is what the researchers are mainly
interested in measuring and changes as
the conditions of the experiment are
manipulated.

Building Blocks 500

Answer: What is the dependent
variable?

Building Blocks 600

This group is important for establishing
a point of comparison for your research
data.

Building Blocks 600

Answer: What is the control group?

Building Blocks 700

Before research begins, this must be
specified to make the dependent
variable measurable.

Building Blocks 700

Answer: What are operational
definitions?

Research Methods 100

Political polls would be an example of
this research method.

Research Methods 100

Answer: What is a survey?

Research Methods 200

Establishing a cause and effect
relationship between two variables
would be most easily done with this
research method.

Research Methods 200

Answer: What is an experiment?

Research Methods 300

This is often used to ensure that both
the experimenter and participant doesnt
know what group the participant
belongs to.

Research Methods 300

Answer: What is a double blind design?

Research Methods 400

These things factor into research and
produce unwanted results for the
researcher.

Research Methods 400

Answer: What are confounding
variables?

Research Methods 500

Examining monkeys as they behave in
the jungle would be an example of this.

Research Methods 500

Answer: What is naturalistic
observation?

Research Methods 600

Personal history, individual
characteristics, and temperament are all
examples of this.

Research Methods 600

Answer: What are random (or subject)
variables?

Research Methods 700

This is used to ensure that participants
expectations do not influence results.

Research Methods 700

Answer: What is a placebo?

Statistics 100
This is another term for the average.

Statistics 100
Answer: What is the mean?

Statistics 200
For the following string of numbers, 5
would be considered this.
1, 2, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 10

Statistics 200
Answer: What is the mode?

Statistics 300
This is the difference between the
highest number and the lowest number.

Statistics 300
Answer: What is the range?

Statistics 400
This is the characteristic given to data
where when one variable increases in
value, so does the other.

Statistics 400
Answer: What is positive correlation?

Statistics 500
This category is chiefly concerned with
the spread of the data.

Statistics 500
Answer: What are measures of
variability?

Statistics 600
This is the measure of the relationship
between variables & how they respond
to each others changes.

Statistics 600
Answer: What is correlation coefficient?

Statistics 700
This is the average distance between
each data point and the mean of that
data set.

Statistics 700
Answer: What is standard deviation?

Famous Dead Folk 100

This psychologist hypothesized that
behavior is motivated by unconscious
conflicts.

Famous Dead Folk 100

Answer: Who is Freud?

Famous Dead Folk 200

This is the scientific philosophy that
claims truth in research is based on
what is experienced & observable.

Famous Dead Folk 200

Answer: What is empiricism?

Famous Dead Folk 300

This is using a variety of components
from a number of different approaches.

Famous Dead Folk 300

Answer: What is eclecticism?

Famous Dead Folk 400

This is the research method used by
Wundt.

Famous Dead Folk 400

Answer: What is introspection?

Famous Dead Folk 500

This psychologist created behaviorism
& was interested in how learning
through associations impacts behavior.

Famous Dead Folk 500

Answer: Who is John B. Watson?

Famous Dead Folk 600

This is the first psychologist to bring
psychology to the U.S.

Famous Dead Folk 600

Answer: Who is William James?

Famous Dead Folk 700

This psychologist came up with the idea
of structuralism (he was interested in
the components that make up the whole
conscious experience).

Famous Dead Folk 700

Answer: Who is Titchener?

Approaches 100
A psychologist explains that depression
is caused by an imbalance of chemicals
in the brain.

Approaches 100
Answer: What is biological approach?

Approaches 200
This approach explains that certain
phobias developed as a means to
protect us.

Approaches 200
Answer: What is the evolutionary
approach?

Approaches 300
Everyone is inherently good and we
become depressed when something
inhibits our full potential.

Approaches 300
Answer: What is the humanistic
approach?

Approaches 400
Depression is caused by unresolved
unconscious guilt.

Approaches 400
Answer: What is the psychodynamic
approach?

Approaches 500
We eat at certain times of the day
because everyone eats at that time.

Approaches 500
Answer: What is the sociocultural
approach?

Approaches 600
This approach would explain depression
as having stemmed from observing
depressed parents or from being
rewarded with attention for depressive
actions.

Approaches 600
Answer: What is the behavioral
approach?

Approaches 700
This approach explains forgetting as a
result of faulty retrieval or
disorganization of information.

Approaches 700
Answer: What is the cognitive
approach?

Jobs and Subfields 100

These psychologists are mainly
concerned with how people interact with
each other.

Jobs and Subfields 100

Answer: Who are social psychologists?

Jobs and Subfields 200

This psychologist would be mainly
concerned with your unique qualities
and character.

Jobs and Subfields 200

Answer: Who is a personality
psychologist?

Jobs and Subfields 300

If you had a mental illness, you would
probably go see this kind of
psychologist.

Jobs and Subfields 300

Answer: Who is a clinical psychologist?

Jobs and Subfields 400

This type of psychologist might work in
corporate America to increase
efficiency.

Jobs and Subfields 400

Answer: Who is an
industrial/organizational psychologist?

Jobs and Subfields 500

This type of psychologist develops ways
to analyze vast amounts of data.

Jobs and Subfields 500

Answer: Who is a quantitative
psychologist?

Jobs and Subfields 600

This type of psychologist would be
interested in when a child took his or
her first step and when speech and
language develops.

Jobs and Subfields 600

Answer: Who is a developmental
psychologist?

Jobs and Subfields 700

This kind of psychologist is mainly
concerned with how my stressful
environment affects me.

Jobs and Subfields 700

Answer: Who is an environmental
psychologist?