Year 10 Intro to Psych and Research Methods

What is the definition of Psychology?

• The scientific study of human thoughts and behaviours

• The study of human feelings

• The scientific study of thoughts, feelings and behaviours

• The scientific study of star signs to determine ones futire

A Psychologist...

• Has completed min 13 years of study in medicine, surgery and psychiatry.

• Can perform medical procedures and prescribe medications.

• Is a qualified medical doctor who has obtained additional qualifications to become a specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses.

• Relies on on psychotherapy (“talking treatments”) to treat their clients.

Which of the following is not an area of specialisation in Psychology?

• Counselling psychology

• Educational and developmental psychology

• Organisational psychology

• Police Psychology

What is a Pseudoscience?

• Any body of knowledge, methodology, belief or practice that claims to be scientific , but does not adhere to the basic requirements of the scientific method.

• The scientific study of human thoughts, feelings and behaviours

• The study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world.

• The branch of knowledge that deals with the significance of numbers.

What are the 3 perspectives we focus on in Psychology?

• Anger, Love, Fear

• Social, Biological, Psychological

• Social, Emotional, Psychological

• There are only 2 perspectives.

This research method is a descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles

• Case Study

• Experimental Research

• Observational Study

• Qualitative data analysis

What is a hypothesis?

• A random guess

• An experiment

• IV and DV

• A testable prediction

What does it mean to draw conclusions?

• test a theory to see if it is true

• try something new

• use data to make an assumption/theory

• make a guess

What is a target population?

• the whole group you want to study or describe

• population inside the classroom

• part of the group you want to study or describe

• The same as the sample

What is a sample in research?

• the whole target population used in the experiment

• a piece of food you get to try

• The smaller subgroup used in the experiment

• an educated guess