Question

What are some scientific-backed phenomena/theory/research finding within the field of psychology?

Answer 1

In today's date Psychological phenomena, research and findings are backed by empirical evidence instead of just pure logic. Psychological studies are now very much analytic and data oriented where subjects or participants under study are observerved, their data about their work, parental upbringing, relaationships, habits, personality traits are fully analyzed and then conclusions are made.

There is a complete and planned life cycle of a research, where participants or subjects or patients are first observed then given a questionnaire, their answers are analyzed and proper data analysis of their answers,habits, lifestyle etc are conducted, conclusion is drawn and results or reports are publlished.

Some commonly used famous Psychological phenomena are:

Bystander effect: - The more the people are present at an emergency situation, the less the chances that any one of them will help. This is confirmed through lots of recurring cases and empirical studies have confirmed this.

Fundmental Attribution Error - People tend to explain other people's behavior in terms of their personal characteristics as opposed to the situation they are in. The way a person's mind is wired, he will see other in the same light.

Other race effect -  Most of the times people recognize faces of people of their own race more accurately than faces of people of any other race. This is also observed through empirical studies.

Placebo effect - Placebos such as made up or fake psychological or medical treatments often help to improve people’s psychological or physiological symptoms and functioning.

Some useful Psychological Research methods are:

Correlational Research - It is very much a statistical reaseach where correlation or causal relationship among two variables is conducted.

Experimental Research - Here experimental research or science are applied to Pschological studies.

Descritive Research - Here the research describes the characteristics of a population or a psychological phenomena under study.

Some famous Psychological Theories are:

Motivation crowding theory - suggests that some motivational factors like monetary benefits or incentives or even fear of punishments can undermine or strengthen the motivation in human beings.

Drive theory - it states that that the presence of an audience or crowd causes an arousal which creates a dominant or a typical response in a given situation.

Self perception theory - states that we observe ourselves in the same manner in which we observe others, and draw conclusions accordingly.