Psychology Vocabulary 1

If your psychologist tells you that your personality and behavior is determined by our unconscious, she is probably a uses a ___________ approach.

• humanistic

• behavioral

• psychoanalytic

• clinical

In psychological research, the extent to which two factors can be compared to each other is called:

• independent variable

• correlation

• survey

• random assignment

Sylvia told Don that their psychological research project could be done inexpensively through questions posed to a random sample of people. What kind of research method did did she suggest?

• case study

• hindsight bias

• empirical data

• survey

This type of psychological research can identify cause and effect between two variables.

• experiment

• case study

• evolutionary

• survey

In an experiement about whether elderly people can breathe better if they do daily walking program, what is the dependant variable?

• elderly people

• walking program

• whether they have a dog or not

• the type of senior living facility

When participants are assigned to the control group and to the experimental group by chance, this is an example of:

• selective sampling

• random assignment

• hindsight bias

• population

What is the appropriate step in the scientific method when a specific question is formed to be tested. It is sometimes called the subject of the study.

• hypothesis

• observer bias

• conclusions

• replication

The field that concentrates on how we encode and recall memories is __________ psychology:

• behavioral

• psychoanalytic

• humanistic

• cognitive

Silvia is a psychologistic that does research into the origins of people's fear of the dark. Silvia is a member of what field of psychology?

• humanistic

• evolutionary

• clinical

• industrial

This organization is the largest group of psychologists and like professionals in the world?

• biopsychosocialism

• American Psychological Association

• Scientific method

• Psychoanalytic's R US!