This perspective is especially interested in how we take in, process, store, and retrieve information.
What is the Cognitive Perspective?
100
This person is considered the father of modern psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
100
A researched using this technique would observe and record behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
100
Moral reasoning characterized by the desire to avoid punishment or gain a reward.
What is the preconventional moral reasoning stage?
100
This is a band of neural fibers that transmits information between the cerebral hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
200
This perspective is especially interested in how we learn observable responses.
What is the Behavioral Perspective?
200
Founder of behaviorism.
Who is John Watson?
200
The variable that the researcher will actively manipulate and, if the hypothesis is correct, will cause a change in the other major variable in the experiment
What is the independent variable?
200
The ability to use formal logic, abstract thought, and hypothetical reasoning.
What is the formal operational stage?
200
The basic building block of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
300
This perspective is especially interested in how thinking or behavior changes in different contexts.
What is Social-Cultural Perspective?
300
American behaviorist who focused on the role of responses in learning.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
300
The research variable that will be influenced by the manipulated variable.
What is the dependent variable?
300
Moral reasoning characterized by a desire to fit in and be a good citizen.
What is conventional moral reasoning?
300
The brain and spinal cord make up this system.
What is the central nervous system.
400
This perspective is especially interested in how our unconscious drives and conflicts affect or behavior.
What is the Psychodynamic Perspective?
400
Famous for studying the cognitive development of children.
Who is Jean Piaget?
400
This is a method of learning about the world through the application of critical thinking and tools such as observation, experimentation, and statistical analysis.
What is the Scientific Method?
400
The awareness that things continue to exist even when you cannot see or hear them.
What is object permanence?
400
this lobe is responsible for thinking and judgment.
What is the frontal lobe?
500
This perspective is especially interested in how healthy people strive to reach their full potential.
What is the Humanistic Perspective?
500
Russian psychologist and famous learning theorist.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
500
Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance.
What is random assignment?
500
Experiencing the world through senses and actions (looking, touching, mouthing, and grasping).
What is the sensorimotor stage of development?
500
The somatic and autonomic systems are subdivisions of this system.