Application Unit 1 Focused Vocab AP Psych

Debriefing

A _________ will follow this experiment to clarify any purpose of deception used by the experimenters.

Double blind procedure

For example, let's imagine that researchers are investigating the effects of a new drug. In a ___________ study, the researchers who interact with the participants would not know who was receiving the actual drug and who was receiving a placebo.

Dorothea Dix

During her visits she saw people with mental illnesses who had been treated inhumanely and neglectfully, and she became determined to improve conditions. —“she” most likely was?

Developmental

Christy is a _________ psychologist with a specialization in language and learning who has spent over forty years studying how children learn language, in both its spoken and written forms

Counseling

Mia is studying ___________ psychology because she wants to be therapist.

Clinical

The four depressed patients were prescribed antidepressant medication by their general practitioner and two others were referred to a ________ psychologist for assessment and treatment.

dependent, Independent, extraneous

Mariah is conducting an experiment to test how well kids can communicate with out words. She knows that how well they communicate is the _______ variable, the restrictions of kids communications are _________ ,and their genders and race are _______ variables.

Independent, extraneous, dependent

Carson is conducting an experiment to look at the effects of studying on test scores. He knows that studying would be _________, morning routine and sleep schedule are _______, and their test scores are _______ variables.

Independent, dependent, extraneous

Maria is conducting an experiment to look at the effects of sugar on athletic performance. She knows that the sugar level is the _______ variable, athletic performance is the ______ variable and the IQ and heritage of the subjects are the _______ variable.

Hindsight Bias

On the evening of an important World Series game, your friend predicts that the Red Sox are going to win by a large margin. In fact, the Red Sox do end up winning the game, causing your friend to boast "I predicted it!"—This is an example of what?

Illusory Correlation

A man holds the belief that people in urban environments tend to be rude. Therefore, when he meets someone who is rude he assumes that the person lives in a city, rather than a rural area. This is an example of what?

Industrial

_______ psychology explores not only how managers get ahead, but also why some people don't turn out to be the best bosses.

Biopsychosocial

People may start smoking for psychological reasons, such as thinking it makes them less stressed or because of personality traits (extroverts are more likely to smoke). People may start smoking due to social networks or perceived cultural norms. Finally, we still must note that addictions and heritability are biological components that can contribute to smoking behaviors. This is a ____ approach.

Naturalistic observation

researchers were very unbothering to Jerrys daily routine for ten weeks. At the end of this 10 weeks, they got natural results because they took great care using unobtrusive methods to avoid interfering with Jerrys behavior. This is an example of what?

Operational definition

Julie was testing the effects of social media on younger kids. Each day, she gave her daughter 3 hours and 5 minutes of screen time for just social media. She wrote this down so that her friends and family could repeat the experiment just in case they didn’t believe her results. Julie wrote 3:05 of social media as her _______ of her independent variable.

Personality

________ psychologists are psychologists who are interested in the study of how an individual's major psychological subsystems—motives, emotions, the self, and others— function together to create a person's life patterns

Nature, nurture

Jack believes that violence is abhorrent to his own gentle nature, he knows he has a happy nature and would never hurt anyone. John knows that if Jack was put into a dangerous environment with bad examples, he would become a violent person. Jack is leaning more toward ______ and John is going for a ______ effect.

Random sample

Out of the males at DBU, names were drawn out of a hat and 10 males were chosen to avoid unequal probabilities of being selected. This is an example of ______.

Random assignment

In Carols experiment, she had everyone pick up a pre-assigned number when they checked in to ensure _______ in the experiment.

Single blind

In a _________ trial, the doctors know which people receive the placebo, but the people do not.