History, Approaches, and Research Method Vocabulary

Behavioral Measures

 Between-subjects design

Case Study

Confounding Variables

Control Procedures

Control Condition

Correlation Coefficient

Correlational Methods

Debriefing

 Dependent Variable

Determinism

Double Blind Control

Expectancy Effects

Experimental Methods

Experiment

Experimental Condition

Hypothesis

Independent Variable

Observer Bias

Operational Definition

Placebo

Population

Random Sample

Random Assignment

Reliability

 Replication

Representative Sample

Sample

Scientific Method

Self-report Measures

 Standardization

Theory

Validity

Within-subjects design

 Descriptive Statistics

Frequency Distribution

Inferential Statistics

Mean

 Mode

Median

Normal Curve

Range

 Significant Difference

Standard Deviation

Hindsight Bias

Critical Thinking

 False Consensus Effect

Survey

Naturalistic Observation

Correlation

Scatter plot

Illusion Correlation

Statistical Significance

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

William Wundt-

G. Stanley Hall-

Psychoanalysis

Behaviorism

Cognitive Psychology

Humanism

Developmental Psychology 

B.F. Skinner

William James

Abraham Maslow

John Watson

Ivan Pavlov

Hume

Descartes

Darwin

Freud

Central Tendency

Methods of research

Variables (all 3)

Z score

Standard deviation

Correlation coefficient

Variability

Validity

Reliability

Range

Evolutionary Approach

Structuralism

Functionalism

Experimenter bias

Sampling bias

Self-report