Psychology Unit 1

Counseling Social Worker - help with relationships between people

Clinical Psychologists - assess and treat mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders

Psychiatrists - went to medical school and are able to prescribe medication

Forensic Psychology - legal

Environmental Psychology - the relationship between humans and the world

Cognitive Psychology - processing and perception

Clinical Psychology - the study of individuals and their behavior

Counseling Psychology - study the relationships between people

Positive Psychology - study of human flourishing

Developmental Psychology - study of the human and its developmental stages

Industrial/Organizational Psychology - people in organized settings

Social Psychology - study of interactions

Sports Psychology - study of sports/mental strength

Experimental Psychology - experiments

Neuropsychology - cognition/brain

Basic vs. Applied Research - applied actually applies to something in your life and you can go furthur with it

WEIRD - Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic

Case Study - An in-depth study of an individual or small group

Naturalistic Observation - observing in a natural environment (unknown)

Surveys - large self diagnostics

Cross-Sectional Study - studies a large group of people/multiple demographics

Cohort - a group of people within a study

Longitudinal Study - studies a group of people for a long period of time

Scientific Method - a procedure

Correlational Research (positive vs. negative) - positive both increase or both decrease

Experiments - studying how variables affect the question

Control group - the group that does not receive the independent variable

Experimental group - the group that does receive the independent variable

Independent variable - I change

Dependent variable - depends on

Random selection - people are randomly picked to be a part of an experiment

Random assignment - participants are randomly assigned control/experimental group

Placebo - when a participant is given a fake drug to test the mind

Double Blind Procedure - when the participant and the researcher don’t know which group the participant is a part of