A PROCEDURE IN WHICH A RESEARCHER SYSTEMATICALLY MANIPULATES AND OBSERVES ELEMENTS OF A SITUATION IN ORDER TO TEST A HYPOTHESIS AND MAKE A CAUSE-AND-EFFECT STATEMENT.
What is FUNCTIONALISM?
A METHOD OF LEARNING THAT EMPLOYS REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS FOR BEHAVIOR
What is OPERANT CONDITIONING?
What is a CONTROL GROUP?
PERSPECTIVE DEVELOPED BY FREUD, WHICH ASSUMES THAT PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS ARE THE RESULT OF ANXIETY RESULTING FROM UNRESOLVED CONFILCTS AND FORCES OF WHICH A PERSON MIGHT BE UNAWARE.
What is PSYCHOANALYTIC?
AFTER FIRING WHEN A NEURON WILL NOT FIRE AGAIN NO MATTER HOW STRONG THE INCOMING MESSAGE MAY BE
What is THE REFRACTORY PERIOD?
TECHNIQUE IN WHICH NEITHER THE PARTICIPANTS NOR THE EXPERIMENTERS KNOW WHO IS RECEIVING A PARTICULAR TREATMENT.
What is DOUBLE-BLIND PROCEDURE?
PERSPECTIVE THAT FOCUSES ON THE MENTAL PROCESSES INVOLVED IN PERCEPTION, LEARNING, MEMORY, AND THINKING.
What is COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY?
THE LARGE BAND OF NEURAL FIBERS CONNECTING THE TWO BRAIN HEMISPHERES AND CARRYING MESSAGES BETWEEN THEM
What is THE CORPUS CALLOSUM?
DIVISION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM THAT DIRECTS THE BODY'S RAPID INVOLUNTARY RESPONSE TO DANGEROUS OR STRESSFUL SITUATIONS.
What is SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM?
AN EXAMPLE OF A SECONDARY REINFORCER
What is MONEY?
A HIGHLY DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL OR EVENT, COMMONLY COMPLETED OVER LONG PERIODS OF TIME.
What is a CASE STUDY?
PERSPECTIVE THAT EMPHASIZES THE UNIQUENESS OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE IDEA THAT HUMANS HAVE FREE WILL.
What is HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY?
AREA OF THE BRAIN RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES OF THE BODY
What is THE CEREBRUM?
THIS PERSON STUDIED OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING WITH AN EXPIREMENT INVOLVING BOBO THE CLOWN.
Who is ALBERT BANDURA
A DEFINITION OF A VARIABLE IN TERMS OF THE SET OF METHODS OR PROCEDURES USED TO MEASURE OR STUDY THAT VARIABLE
PERSPECTIVE THAT SEEKS TO EXPLAIN AND PREDICT BEHAVIORS BY ANALYZING HOW THE HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPED OVER TIME, HOW IT FUNCTIONS, AND HOW INPUT FROM THE ENVIRONMENT AFFECTS HUMAN BEHAVIORS.
What is EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY?
STRUCTURE INVOLVED IN THE PROCESSES OF MEMORY FORMATION AND SPATIAL NAVIGATION.
What is THE HIPPOCAMPUS?