behavioral approach
analyse how organisms learn new behaviors or modify exisiting one, depending on wheither events in their environments reward or punish these behaviors
cognitive approach
focuses on how we process, store, and use information and how this information influences what we attend to, perceive, learn, remember, believe, and feel.
psychology
is the systematic, scientific study of behaviors and mental processes
psychometrics
focuses on the measurement of peoples abilities, skills, intelligence, personality, and abnormal behavior
structuralism
was the study of the most basic elements, promarily sensations and perceptions, that make up our concious mental experiements
case study
is an indepth analysis of the thoughts, fellings, beliefs, experiences, behaviors or problems of a single individual
correlation
is an association or relationship between the occurrence of two or more events
independant variable
is a treatment or somthing that the researcher controls or manipulates
random selection
means that each paticipant in a sample population has an equal chance of being selected for the experiement
scientific method
is an approach of gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized