Ap Psych Unit 1 (copy)

The thing we are studying.

What the organism is doing.

Why does the organism do what it’s doing.

What does an organism know and how does it know?

What skills/abilities does an organism have and how did it get them?

How much change actually happens from situation to situation and over our lifetimes.

Are we bound for success or failure? Are we inherently good or bad?

Are genes or the environment the reason you are, do what you do, etc.

Are we pushed to do things from the inside or pulled from the outside?

Knowledge must be found through experience and use of the senses.

Bumps in the head that indicate personality traits.

The baby daddy of psychology.

Self-reflection (looking in).

Divide the mind into mental elements/parts.

What the mind does matters most, divide the mind into it’s different parts.

First American psychologist.

Investigate people and perceptions as a whole, don’t divide the mind up.

Altered the course of psychology, focused on observable actions.

Combo of biology, psychology, and sociology to determine who we are and what we do.

Basically a therapist.

Someone from a more medical standpoint.

The source of all research and science (the fuel).

Ask questions and don’t just accept things the way they are.

Thinking deeply about ideas and information.

Must be able to accept when you’re wrong.

“I knew it all along” phenomenon.

Plays a role in science but MUST BE TESTED.

We think we know more than we do.

The act of seeing only info to confirm our point of view and ignoring contradictory info.

Broad statement.

Testable predictions (if, then).

Clearly define variables.

Same people are studied over time.

Impact of shared experience with people born in the same place or time as you.

Different people are all studied at the same time.

Study one or a few subjects in great depth to try and learn something out the whole population.

The who?

The entire group.

A small percent of the group.

Everyone in the group has an equal chance.

We hang around people who agree with us/share the same beliefs so we overestimate how many people share that belief.

Observe subjects in natural environment.

• Stalking

Measuring relationships.

Number representing strength of a relationships.

• Closer to 1.00 = the closer you are

Variables increase or decrease together.

• Study more to get better grades

Inverse relationship, one goes up while the other goes down.

• Time spent without brushing teeth leads to less friends

Perceived relationships that don’t exist.

• Superstitions

Being able to absolutely say something is caused by something else.

How you establish causation.

Doesn’t change, for comparison.

Blank or empty factor.

• Meant to see if expectation is what is causing results.

Scientist and participants don’t know who is in which condition.

Decides who goes into which group.

Makes sure variable is clearly defined/described.

Additional possible influences on outcomes.

Stats that simple describe data.

Lay data out in order.

Where you fall in a distribution.

How different scores are from each other.

Distance from smallest data to largest.

Individual deviation from the average.

Can/should or can’t/shouldn’t we make assumptions based on statistical data.

Difference is enough to mean something.

Right and wrong as it pertains to a certain field.

Subjects agree to continue.

Check-in with subjects afterwords.

• Informed consent

• Safe

• The ability to stop

• Confidentiality

• Debriefing