Ch. 1 Psych

intro to psych college

clinical psych

studies: mental health/ abnormal behavior

counseling psych

problems in living

school psych

learning probs/ special ed

educational psych

instructional help

developmental psych

how people change

environmental psych

recycling/ noise/ temp

social psych

behavior around other people

personality psych

traits/ characteristics

experimental psych

process info

consumer psych

predict to hope youll buy

health psych

stress/behaviors

forensic psych

criminal justice system

sports psych

behavior

structuralism

wundt sensations, feelings, images

functionalist

james

freud

psychoanalysis unconscious mind impacts

bandura

observation/ social cognitive

biological

brain/ nervous system

cognitive

process info

humanistic

self-fulfilment

positive psych

forgiveness

learning

changed environment

scientific method

find truth

theory 

hypothesized statements 

hypothesis

statement tested through research

population

group of interest

sample

part of a population

case studies

examination of one individual

survey

large sample

naturalistic observation

observed in natural environment

correlation method

strength between variables

experimental research

casual factor is manipulated

independent variable

manipulated by experimenter

dependent variable

changes in response to IV

random assignment

control groups by chance

confounding variables

explanation for outcome

placebo

false treatment

placebo effect

beliefs about treatment working

blind technique

do not tell subject

experiment effects

biases of experimenter

double blind

neither subject or experimenter know

informed consent

subject know before experiment

confidentiality

information undisclosed

deception

mislead participants

debriefing

info about purpose