Psychology CH.1

Study of Behavior and Mental Processes

What organisms do, their actions and reactions

Ones feelings, moods, emotions

Mental events Ex. Beliefs, thoughts, ideas, memories

The procedures used to measure or create concepts

An organized body of knowledge gained through the scientific methods

A step by step process used to gain knowledge

An educated guess that can be tested

False science

Counseling, clinical, sports psychologist

• 1. Observe
• 2. Explain
• 3. Predict
• 4. Change

A robot with tubes, pipes, valves and gears

Body and Mind

We are born with a blank slate and only experience can fill that

Focus on events that can be observed and measured

The person should be the mane concern in an experiment

The chemicals in body, what they do. Studying the physical body.

Explain behaviors and mental processes in terms of how they help members of the species adapt to their environments

How an organism processes information

Look at the organism as it grows and develops

What motivation and/or reinforcing to an individual

On mental health

Observing subjects in their natural environment

Asking a large number of persons the same question or set of questions

One person - or a small group of persons - is studied in depth, often over a long period of time

A portion of a larger group

Observed and measured, but not manipulated

Investigators manipulate a variable

A value between 0.00 and +1.00 that tells us that as values of one variable increase, the volues of the other variable increase as well

A number with a value between +1.00 and -1.00 that tells us about the nature and the extent of a relationship between the variables that have been measured

Value between 0.00 and -1.00 that tells us that as values of one variable increase, the values of the other variable decrease

0 series of operations used to investigate whether changes in one variable cause measurable changes in another variable, while all other variables are controlled or eliminated

Variable in an experiment that the experimenter manipulates

A measure of the behavior of the participants in an experiment

Participants in an experiment exposed to some value of the independent variable

Participants in an experiment who recive a zero level of the independent variable

Something given to a participant that has no identifiable effect on the dependent variable

Factors that can influence the dependant variable of an experiment and need to be controlled or eliminated

Each participant in a research program has an equal chance of being assigned to any of the groups in an experiment

Each participant serves in poth the experimental and in the control group conditions

The ability to apply results beyond the restrictive conditions of an experimental setting

Those done not in a laborotory, but in the "real world"

Combining the results of many studies to see more clearly the relationship.