Psychology Keywords

"The ability to replicate studies to gain same/similar results" is the definition for:

• validity

• reductionism

• reliability

• objectivity

"Free from the human element, emotion, and bias."

Which word is opposite in meaning to this definition?

• Objectivity

• Validity

• Holism

• Subjectivity

Reductionism is focusing on only one factor and ignoring all the others to understand a behavior.

• True

• False

A student missed a test, and the teacher allowed them to repeat it because she considered that they might've been sick or had problems at home.

Was she being holistic or reductionist?

• Holistic

• Reductionist

We have two types of ethical guidelines, which are

________ and _______ ethical guidelines.

Answer explanation

"Whether the method truly measures what it intends to measure" is the definition of

• subjectivity

• holism

• validity

• ethical guidelines

The nomothetic approach focuses on finding _______ in people and generalizing laws that apply to all people.

The idiographic approach involves focusing on the individual. To understand this you have to remember that everyone is _______