CH.1 DEFINITIONS

1. Psychology is the science of behavior and mental processes. 2. Industrial/organizational psychology is often referred to as I/O psychology and is the focus of the work staffs mental and physical wellbeing to increase productivity. 3. Conscious processes are processes a person makes and is conscious of it. 4. Clinical psychology is the assessment and treatment of mental illness, abnormal behavior and psychiatric problems. 5. Psychiatry is the assessment and treatment of mental disorders by the use of medical drugs. 6. Distinction between psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis psychology is a science of human behavior and mental processes, psychiatry is a medical professional concerned with the treatment of mental disorders with prescription drugs, and psychoanalysis is the study of a person’s unconscious mind. 7. Empirical investigation the factual recording of information that is observed. 8. Hypothesis is a predicted outcome based on information that is most likely to happen and is part of the scientific method. 9. Independent variable is when a researcher gives one group a stimulus and the other a placebo the stimulus group is the independent variable and the placebo group is the dependent because the participants are measured by their responsiveness. 10. Experimental group and control groups are different in the way that the experimental group is the group that is given a stimulus and the control group is given a placebo. 11. Random assignment is when the experimental control group is random so it is unknown which participants are given the placebo and which are given the stimulus. 12. Surveys are a set of predetermined questions about a person opinion on a subject. 13. Naturalistic observation is the study of