What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes?
100
Name one career one could pursue with a psychology degree.
What is:
teacher, clinical psychologist, counseling psychologist, sports psychologist, industrial psychologist, etc?
100
The case study method allows psychologists to create these.
What are new hypotheses?
100
Hindsight bias is described as this.
What is that events seem more predictable after they have occurred?
100
Even though phrenology has been disproved as a theory, it did lead modern psychology to do this.
What is focus our attention on the idea that various brain regions have particular functions?
200
These are the two historical roots of psychology.
What are philosophy and biology?
200
Name one major subfield of psychology.
What is:
cognitive, behavioral, humanistic, social-cultural, psychoanalytic, behavior genetics, neuroscience, etc?
200
A psychological theory is defined as this.
What is an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations?
200
People are generally overconfident, which is the tendency to do this.
What is to overestimate the accuracy of one’s beliefs and judgments?
200
Increased complexity of animals’ behavior is accompanied by this.
What is an increase in the amount of association areas?
300
Currently, most psychologists believe this in regards to the “nature-nurture” debate.
What is that nurture works on what nature endows?
300
This is the difference between a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist.
What is that psychiatrists hold a medical degree?
300
An independent variable differs from a dependent variable because of this reason.
What is that an IV is manipulated, while the DV is measured?
300
Psychology cannot be fully value-free. “Value-free” means this.
What is it is free of personal bias and preconceptions?
300
When you exercise, you often feel elated and happy, and are able to ignore a lot of pain. This is due to the release of this.
What are endorphins?
400
This psychologist was most closely associated with functionalism, how mental and behavioral processes enable an organism to adapt, survive, and flourish.
Who is William James?
400
Basic psychology is to applied psychology as __________ is to ____________.
What is building psychology’s knowledge base is to solving practical problems?
400
An ideal sample for psychological research is all three of these things.
What are large, representative, and random?
400
Results from the survey method of research are easily affected by these.
What are wording effects.
400
A neuron will generate an action potential more often when this happens.
What is it receives more excitatory than inhibitory inputs?
500
Natural Selection is best defined as this.
What is the inherited traits that contribute to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations?
500
The biopsychosocial approach incorporates the following levels of analysis.
What are biological influences (genetics, etc.), psychological influences (emotional responses, etc.), and social-cultural influences (presence of others, etc.)?
500
Hair length and height are negatively correlated. This means this.
What is that as hair length gets longer, height goes down OR that as hair length gets shorter, height goes up?
500
A correlational study can only tell us about these. On the other hand, this method is the only way to study cause and effect.
What are relationships and the experimental method?
500
These are all the parts of the nervous system (think about the tree and list them from top to bottom - 6 parts).
What are:
CNS and the PNS
PNS: Somataic and Autonomic
Autonomic: Sympathetic and Parasympathetic?