Invitation to Psychology

6 Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? concepts, but some schools of psychotherapy still draw on psychoanalytic ideas. From its early b ...

Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? 7 of intelligence not measured by conventional IQ tests. The cognitive approach is one of the stro ...

8 Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? have to process it until you get it. An excellent way to do this is to connect new information t ...

Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? 9 Psychological Research LO 1.5 Most people who do psychological research have doctoral degrees (P ...

10 Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? mental health, work in mental hospitals, general hospitals, clinics, schools, counseling center ...

Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? 11 outdated, or ineffective therapy techniques (Baker, McFall, & Shoham, 2008; Lilienfeld, Lyn ...

12 Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? opinion surveys. They run suicide-prevention hot- lines. They advise zoos on the care and train ...

Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? 13 2004). And if you say, “Chevy trucks are the best in the world and Hondas do not exist; they ar ...

14 Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? A hypothesis, in turn, leads to predictions about what will happen in a particular situation. I ...

Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? 15 a hypothesis in such a way that it can be refuted, or disproved by counterevidence. This princi ...

16 Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? is beneficial for everyone. Anecdotes are often the source of stereotyping, as well: One dishon ...

Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? 17 our beliefs into disarray. Critical thinkers are willing to accept this state of uncertainty. T ...

18 Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? Suppose you wanted to learn about drug use among first-year college students. Questioning or ob ...

Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? 19 learn some rules of social conduct, and she began to understand short sentences and to use word ...

20 Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? stranger. You might have parents and their infants come to your lab, observe them playing toget ...

Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? 21 Test construction presents two central chal- lenges. First, the test must have reliability, pro ...

22 Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? And again, technology can help, because many people feel more anonymous when they interact with ...

Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? 23 correlation is a numerical measure of the strength of the relationship between two things. The ...

24 Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? more kumquats eaten, the lower the test score. To take a much more realistic example: How about ...

Chapter 1 What Is Psychology? 25 not establish causation. It is often tempting to as- sume that if variable A predicts variable ...