History
Who opened the first psychology research lab, in Leipzig, Germany, in 1879?
Wilhelm Wundt
A school psychologist uses this year's test scores to forecast which students will struggle next year. Which goal of psychology is this?
Predict
Which part of a neuron receives incoming signals from other neurons?
The dendrites
Six chairs are set up as two tight groups of three, with a big gap in the middle. You see two groups of chairs. Which Gestalt principle is this?
Proximity
As light falls in the evening, the pineal gland releases this hormone, and you get sleepy. What is it called?
Melatonin
Sigmund Freud's school focused on unconscious drives and early childhood experience. What was it called?
Psychoanalysis
A researcher asks 500 students how many hours they sleep each night, records their answers, and compares them with their GPAs. Which broad group of research methods does this belong to?
the descriptive method
After your presentation ends, your heartbeat slows and digestion resumes. Which branch of the autonomic nervous system is now in charge?
The parasympathetic nervous system.
You hear a strange sound you have never heard before, and you have no idea what it is. Your brain builds up a guess from the pitch, the loudness, and the rhythm alone. Which kind of processing is this?
bottom-up processing
Electrodes on the scalp record the brain's electrical activity as you sleep. What is this recording method called?
The EEG (electroencephalograph)
Which school of thought focuses on what the mind is for and what it aims to accomplish rather than what it is made of?
Functionalism
Study A finds a -0.60 correlation between phone use and sleep. Study B finds a +0.45 correlation between exercise and mood. Which study found the stronger relationship?
Study A
You touch a hot pan. Which type of neuron carries the "hot" message from your hand toward your spinal cord and brain?
Sensory neurons
The smallest stimulus you can detect half the time is called
absolute threshold
The deepest stage of sleep, where we observe longer, slow waves, is called
NREM stage 3
In the 1960s this perspective began to study the mind as a system that processes information, like a computer. What is it called?
The cognitive perspective
A researcher tests an energy drink. The drink group is tested at noon, and the no-drink group at midnight. What kind of variable is the time of day?
confounding variable
During stress, your adrenal glands release cortisol into the bloodstream. What kind of chemical messenger is cortisol?
A hormone.
As your friend walks away, the image on your retina gets smaller, but your friend does not seem to shrink. What is this called?
The felt qualities of an experience, such as what cold water feels like to you, are called
Qualia
Who is the founder of modern vision science who defines perception as "unconscious inference"?
Hermann von Helmholtz
A study finds that homes with more books have children with higher grades. A reporter writes that buying books raises grades. Which rule does the reporter break?
Correlation does not prove causation
After a stroke, a woman cannot see, even though her eyes work perfectly. Damage in which lobe of the cortex is the most likely cause?
The occipital lobe
After an illness, a woman could still see, hear, and feel touch, but she had no idea where her arms and legs were unless she looked at them. The sense she lost is called
Proprioception
Freud said dreams hide wishes behind symbols. So, the constructive function of dreams is
wish fulfillment