For your post, please respond to BOTH prompts below. Number your responses 1 and 2, but do not include the questions. Respond with one to two sentences for EACH prompt. Remember to reply to a post for at least one of your peers!
Which concept was the most applicable to your own life? Why? ( based on ch 1)
How have you been benefiting from what you have learned ? (
( based on ch 1))
CHAPTER 1 KEY TERMS (for your reference):
Adjustment: the psychological processes
through which people manage or cope with the demands and challenges of everyday
life.
Behavior:
any overt (observable)
response or activity by an organism.
Case
study:
an in-depth
investigation of an individual subject.
Clinical
psychology: the branch
of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological
problems and disorders.
Control
group: similar
subjects [to the experimental group] who do not receive the special treatment
given to the experimental group.
Correlation:
when two variables are
related to each other.
Correlation
coefficient: numerical
index of the degree of relationship that exists between two variables.
Dependent
variable: the variable
that is thought to be affected by the manipulation of the independent variable.
Empiricism:
the premise that
knowledge should be acquired through observation.
Experiment:
a research method in
which the investigator manipulates one (independent) variable under carefully
controlled conditions and observes whether any changes occur in a second
(dependent) variable as a result.
Experimental
group: the subjects
who receive some special treatment regarding the independent variable.
Hedonic
adaptation: when the
mental scale that people use to judge the pleasantness-unpleasantness of their
experiences shifts so that their neutral point, or baseline for comparison, is
changed.
Independent
variable: a condition
or event that an experimenter varies to see its impact on another variable.
Mnemonic devices: strategies for enhancing memory.
Narcissism:
a personality trait
marked by an inflated sense of importance, a need for attention and admiration,
a sense of entitlement, and a tendency to exploit others.
Naturalistic
observation: when a
researcher engages in careful observation of behavior without intervening
directly with the subjects.
Psychology:
the science that
studies behavior and the physiological and mental processes that underlie it;
the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to
practical problems.
Subjective
well-being: individuals’
personal assessments of their overall happiness or life satisfaction.
Surveys:
structured
questionnaires or interviews designed to solicit information about specific
aspects of participants’ behavior, attitudes, and beliefs.
