History & Approaches
Cognition and Language
Research Methods
Problems in Research
Biological Bases of Behavior
100
Today, psychology is defined as this.
What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes?
100
A term covering all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating
What is cognition
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
The way an issue is posed; can significantly effect decisions and judgements
What is framing?
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
Mental group of similar objects, events, ideas or people
What is concept?
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
When a child talks like a telegram
What is telegraphic speech?
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 smallest distinct sound unit.
What is phoneme?
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?
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