the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology
100
group that does not receive treatment in an experiment, used to compare results.
What is the control group
100
In research the tendency to believe that one would have forseen the outcome of an experiment after learning the results.
What is hindsight bias.
100
what type of therapy uses dream analysis and free association
What is psychoanalysis
100
what is the oldest brain structure?
What is the brainstem!
200
The early debate between psychologists about whether psychology should be studied through introspection of the structure of the mind or focused on how mental and behavioral processes function.
What is structuralism vs functionalism.
200
an effect where results are achieved by expectations alone. ie a person improves because he believes he has taken medicine.
What is the placebo effect
200
the oldest research method, where psychologists study one individual in depth, hoping to generalize the results to others.
What is the case study
200
which theorist believed in a hierarchy of needs, the lower levels must be fufilled before we achieve self actualization
Who is Maslow.
200
name one type of brain scan imaging technique.
What is the PET MRI or fMRI
300
Debate over whether biology or experience most contributes to psychological traits and behaviors.
What is the nature vs nurture debate
300
in an experiment there are at least two variables, one factor whose effect is being studied and one factor that changes in response to the manipulations of the other factor. These are known as what type of variables?
What is independent and dependent variables
300
Other than a case study what are the other 2 types of descriptive research? Hint: one looks at many cases in depth, asking about behavior or opinions. the other observes and records behavior in naturally occuring situations.
What is survey and naturalistic observation
300
Which theory believed that at the core, people are essentially good and by accepting them we can help them be the best they can be.
What is person centered perspective by rogers
300
Which brain structure influences agression and fear?
What is the amygdala
400
Which philosophers believed that the mind is separate from the body and that knowledge is innate?
Who are Socrates and Plato
400
what are the three measures of central tendency?
What are the mean, median and mode?
400
What is the difference between correlation and causation?
Correlation-extent to which 2 factors vary together. causation-demonstrates cause-effect relationship
400
which type of therapy involves teaching people new ways of thinking and is more confrontational than other therapies?
What is cognitive therapy
400
which brain structure directs maintenance activities such as eating, drinking, body temperature , and is linked to emotion?
What is the hypothalamus
500
Bacon's ideas, along with John Locke's essay about the mind at birth being a blank slate resulted in the modern idea that knowledge originates in experience. This idea is known as...
What is empiricism.
500
what are the two measures of variation?
What are the range and standard deviation. =square root of the sum of deviations, squared, divided by number of scores
500
What type of research is necessary to prove causal relationships?
What is experimentation
500
name and describe one type of counter conditioning.
What is aversive or exposure therapy
500
what are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex
What are the frontal-speaking,movement, planning, judgement; the parietal-sensory input for touch, occipital-visual areas, and temporal-auditory