Introductory Psychology
This field studies how people think, feel, and behave
What is Psychology?
This cognitive neuroscientist and advocate for women in STEM currently serves as the Head of the Department of Psychology at Acadia University
Who is Dr. Randy Newman?
This psychologist studied dogs and discovered classical conditioning
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This part of the brain controls balance and coordination of voluntary movements.
What is the cerebellum?
The outcome measured or tested in an experiment, which changes in response to manipulations of the independent variable
What is the dependent variable?
This memory system holds information for only a few seconds unless it is rehearsed
What is short-term memory?
This acronym refers to the psychology students association that represents and supports psych majors
What is the Acadia University Psychology Association (AUPA)?
This psychologist developed psychoanalysis and proposed the id, ego, and superego
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This neurotransmitter is strongly linked to feelings of pleasure and reward in the brain
What is dopamine?
This type of study follows the same people at different times throughout their lives or through a particular event.
What is a longitudinal study?
This type of psychologist studies how people change across the lifespan
What is a developmental psychologist?
Acadia psychology students have the option of specializing in this stream of psychology, which focuses on using psychological principles to effectively manage human behaviour in areas such as clinical, health, educational, and forensic settings
What is the applied psychology option?
This developmental psychologist proposed that children move through stages like sensorimotor and preoperational
Who is Jean Piaget?
Damage to this region of the left frontal lobe often results in difficulty producing fluent speech, while comprehension remains relatively intact
What is Broca's area?
This type of sample gives every member of a population an equal chance of being selected
What is a random sample?
This cognitive bias causes people to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms their existing beliefs
What is confirmation bias?
Before being renamed Horton Hall, this building was known by this name
What is Horton House and/or Horton Academy (both are correct)
Participants in this psychologist’s study often gave wrong answers about line lengths because the rest of the group did
Who is Solomon Asch?
This brain structure plays a key role in forming new long-term memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This type of error occurs when a researcher incorrectly rejects a true null hypothesis, concluding that an effect exists when it actually does not
What is a type 1 error?
This (unethical) famous experiment by _____ ______ studied how far people would go in obeying authority figures, even when it involved harming others
In this year, the Department of Psychology was officially established at Acadia University
What is 1926?
This psychologist demonstrated social learning theory with the famous Bobo Doll experiment, showing that children imitate aggressive behaviour they observe
Who is Albert Bandura?
This brain structure links the nervous and endocrine systems and regulates functions such as hunger, thirst, and body temperature.
What is the hypothalamus?
This is calculated by dividing the variance between group means by the variance within groups
What is the F-statistic?