Unit 1
This type of theorist would study the impact of learning on behavior and what can improve learning.
Behaviorist
This is the variable being measured.
Dependent variable
List one fact about the cerebral hemispheres.
Left functions
Right functions
Need to work together for everyday tasks
Adjusting to a certain smell or loud noise is an example of what?
Sensory adaptation
This type of theorist would study the unconscious and behaviors such as repression.
Psychoanalytic/dynamic
This is a type of study performed to study individual characteristics/rare cases.
Case study
This part of the brain is responsible for visual processing.
Smelling a drop of perfume throughout a three-bedroom apartment is an example of what?
Absolute threshold
List one of the earliest three approaches used to study behavior.
Psychoanalytic, behaviorism, humanist
This is what a researcher must do if deception is involved.
List one of the neurotransmitters and for what it is responsible.
Endorphins
Dopamine
Serotonin
Acetylcholine
GABA
Glutamate
Norepinephrine
Color blindness is a deficiency in what?
Detecting certain colors (cones)
What career field in psychology would deal with the workplace?
Industrial-organizational
Confounding variables
This part of the brain processes emotions and responds accordingly.
Amygdala
This theory discusses afterimages as an effect of color vision.
Opponent-process theory
Name one of the two main humanistic theorists.
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers
This type of research can show cause and effect.
Experimental
PET scan
What helps in making judgments about the distance of objects?
Depth perception