Ch1 Flashcards
Aesthetic judgments
Beauty and art
Ethical and moral judgment
Right and wrong
Psychologist
Graduate school and usually earn PhD or PSYD
Psychiatrist
Medical school and MD’s
Psychotherapist
Graduate school and earns MAs or MSs
Meta analysis
Compares multiple studies that looked at similar relationships to come to conclusions
Random assignment
Same opportunity randomly
Non-random assignment
Assigned to treatment or control group using random
Cause-and-effect
True experiment
Placebo
Sugar pill inactive pill
Blind study
Participants doesn’t know whether and treatment or control group
Double-blind study
Experimenters and participants don’t know if they are in experimental or control group
Psychology
Human mind and functional behavioral characteristics and attitude
Biological perspective
Internal chemistry genetic history
Cognitive perspective
Internal mental process thinking memory problem-solving perception