History & Approaches 1
He is credited with opening the very first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany, in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This perspective examines how natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of genes
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
In an experiment, this is the variable that the researcher manipulates.
What is the Independent Variable?
A statistical index showing the relationship between two variables, ranging from -1.0 to +1.0.
What is a Correlation Coefficient?
The basic building block, or nerve cell, of the nervous system.
What is a Neuron?
This perspective, championed by Watson and Skinner, argues that psychology should only study observable actions.
What is Behaviorism?
The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits.
What is the Nature vs. Nurture debate?
In an experiment, this is the outcome variable that is measured.
What is the Dependent Variable?
The statistical average of a distribution of scores.
What is the Mean?
The microscopic gap between the axon terminal of one neuron and the dendrite of another.
What is a Synapse?
William James authored the first psychology textbook and founded this early school of thought.
What is Functionalism?
This approach explores how situations and culture dictate our behavior and thinking.
What is the Sociocultural perspective?
An inert substance given to the control group to test the effects of expectations.
What is a Placebo?
The most frequently occurring score(s) in a distribution.
What is the Mode?
This lobe at the back of the brain is primarily responsible for processing visual information.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
Sigmund Freud’s theory that emphasizes the role of the unconscious mind and childhood experiences.
What is Psychoanalysis?
The branch of psychology that explores how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
This process ensures that every participant has an equal chance of being placed into the experimental or control group.
What is Random Assignment?
The ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.
What is Informed Consent?
This neural center located in the limbic system helps process explicit memories for storage.
What is the Hippocampus?
The psychological perspective that focuses on human growth, potential, and self-actualization (led by Maslow and Rogers).
What is Humanistic Psychology?
An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis.
What is the Biopsychosocial approach?
An experimental procedure in which both the participants and the research staff are ignorant about who received the treatment.
What is a Double-Blind Procedure?
An observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles.
What is a Case Study?
Chemical messengers, such as dopamine and serotonin, that cross the synaptic gaps.
What are Neurotransmitters?