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He thought consciousness served as a function, contributing to our ancestors survival. He studied down to earth emotions, memories, willpower, habits, and moment to moment streams of consciousness.
Who is William James?
Zephyr Smith was lost in the woods at age 2, and was subsequently raised by a pack of feral hamsters. Studying this case has given valuable data to scientists-this is know as why type of study?
What is a case study?
You want to know if kindness is something that can be taught or if people are born with this tendency. In general, you are interested in studies that explore the contribution of genes and experience, known commonly as this.
What is nature v. nurture?
A simple, autonomic response to a sensory stimulus, such as a knee-jerk response
What is a reflex?
This encompasses every non-genetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us.
What is the environment?
He established the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
When creating studies, scientists often create an ______ ______, in which people receive a specific treatment, and a contrasting _______ ________ whose members do not receive the treatment.
What is an experimental group and a control group?
Thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions but rather examines assumptions, appraises the source, discerns hidden biases, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions is known as this type of thinking.
What is critical thinking?
These carry incoming information from the sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord.
What are sensory neurons?
This is the term for the genetic transfer of characteristics from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
She was pretty hardcore, refusing to accept the Radcliffe psychology degree she was offered instead of the Harvard psychology degree she had earned. Side note, she was also the first female president of the American Psychological Association (APA)
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
You are curious about why people do or dont pick up litter in public spaces. You decide to sit in several different public spaces to observe this behavior and take notes on your findings. This typeof study would best be desribed as this type of observation.
What is naturalistic?
This is the term used to describe the science of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
This is responsible for gathering information and for transmitting CNS (Central Nervous System) decisions to other body parts.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
The scientific study of observable behavior is known as this.
The classic case study of this man, who was injured by a metal rod shooting through the top of his skull, showed how frontal lobe damage can alter personality and remove a person's inhibitions.
Who is Phineas Gage?
The name for a testable prediction, often implied by a theory.
What is a hypothesis?
Possibly the most recognized name in psychology, his controversial ideas emphasized the ways our unconscious thought processes and emotional responses to childhood experienced affect our behavior.
Who is Freud?
You are being asked to perform an impromptu tap dance and presentation on a chapter you hate. You are nervous, sweaty, and have an accelerated heart rate leading up to and during the presentation.Once you have presented, you head back to your seat and are finally able to zone out and pretend you are listening again. What was activated prior to the presentation, and what kicked in after?
What is the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system?
The science of behavior and mental processes is known as this.
What is psychology?
They showed that fear could be learned, as evidenced by their "Little Albert" experiments.
Who are John Watson and Rosalie Rayner?
The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one could have forseen it.
What is hindsight bias?
The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next is known as this.
What is culture?
This is the endocrine systems most influential gland.
What is the pituitary gland?
What three (3) things define the scientific attitude?
What is curious, skeptical and humble?