Structuralism-Structuralism is an approach to the human sciences that attempts to analyze a specific field (for instance, mythology) as a complex system of interrelated parts.
Functionalism-Functionalism is a memory of a philosophical basis for much empirical research in psychology and cognitive science, which says that “mental states are constituted by their casual relations to one another and to sensory inputs and behavioral outputs”
Nature-nurture issue-The nature versus nurture debates concern the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities versus personal experiences in determining or causing individual differences in physical and behavioral traits.
Natural selection-Natural selection is the process by which favorable heritabletraits become more common in successive generations of a population of reproducingorganisms, and unfavorable heritable traits become less common, due to differential reproduction of genotypes.
Basic research-Basic research, fundamental research (sometimes pure research), is research carried out to increase understanding of fundamental principles.
Applied research-Applied research: is research accessing and using some part of the research communities' (the academy's) accumulated theories, knowledge, methods, and techniques, for a specific, often state, commercial, or client driven purpose.
Clinical psychology-Clinical psychology includes the scientific study and application of psychology for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.[
Illusory correlation-Illusorycorrelation is the phenomenon of seeing the relationship one expects in a set of data even when no such relationship exists.
Experiment-a method of investigating causal relationships among variables.
Double-blind procedure-used to prevent research outcomes from being influenced by either the placebo effect or the observer bias.
Placebo effect-is a phenomenon in which a physiologically inert treatment, or placebo, improves a patient's condition relative to similar patients who receive no treatment
Experimental condition-
Control condition-
Random assignment-parcipitants are assigned to a group by chance
Independent variable-the one that is being changed for study
Dependent variable-is not being changing for study
Mode- most commonly occuring number
Mean- average
Median-middle number in a set of data
Range-from the lowest # of data to the top
Standard deviation- how much scores vary around the median
Statistical significance- signafacance of statistics
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