Brain Parts and Facts
frontal --> temporal and parietal --> occipital
What is the lobe order from front of back?
Wundt
Who is the father of psychology?
Scientific Method
What guides empirical research?
Central Nervous System
What is made up of the brain and spinal cord.
Correlation and causation are equal.
What is false?
This connects the two cerebral hemispheres of the cerebrum.
Who is Mary Calkins?
Any measurable conditions, events, characteristics, or behaviors that are controlled OR measured in a study.
What are variables?
After birth the brain is largely unable to create new neurons.
What is a false statement?
An observable, overt response or activity by an organism.
What is behavior?
This appears to support the brain's moral reasoning and decision-making processes.
What is the frontal lobe?
Structuralism and Funtionalism
What are the two original major schools of thought when psychology first began?
Any data that can be observed with your eyes using the sceintific method to draw results.
What is empirical data?
Three parts of a neuron.
What is the sona, dendrite, and axon?
In this review process, research is screened and critiqued by scientists in the field before it is published.
What is peer review?
For a person without this life would be like living in a strange world where everything new they experienced would be forgotten.
What is a hypothalamus?
Leta Hollingworth did pioneering work on this type of development.
What is adolescent developement?
The correlation coefficient would indicate the strongest relationship between two variables.
What is -1.0
Insulating material that encases some axons and speeds up the transmission pf signals that move along the axons.
What is a myelin sheath?
The use of these in psychological studies has fewer ethical concerns than human studies so they have less regulation.
What are animal subjects?
The part of the brain closest to the spinal cord and is used for breathing and heart rate.
What is the medulla?
The meaning of the two greek words (psych and logos) from which the term "psychology" comes.
What is "soul" and "word or study"?
The ethical codes regulating the conduct of research have been developed by these organisations.
What are the federal government and scientific organisations?
The variable in an experiment that the scientist manipulates to get results.
What is the independent variable?