Types of Psychologists and Psychology
This is the type of degree that professional psychologists need.
What is a graduate degree?
This is what correlation does not equal.
What is causation?
Causation can be determined from this type of design.
What is Experimental? (experiment)
This subcortical structure supports memory and learning.
What is the hippocampus?
This is the part of the nervous system most active during fight or flight
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This is the type of psychology that emphasizes natural selection.
What is evolutionary psychology?
These are the variables needed for causation.
What is a manipulated (IV) variable and measured (DV) variable?
This is an informed prediction about how two variables are related.
What is a hypothesis?
This part of the neuron receives information from other neurons.
What is the dendrites?
This is the part of the nervous system made of the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
These psychologists assess and treat mental disorders but do not prescribe medicine.
What are clinical psychologists?
As someone collects more money, they are said to collect more problems. This is an example of ______.
A positive correlation.
If an experimenter has expectations for how participants are to behave, they are said to have this.
What is observer bias?
This neuroimaging technique uses blood flow to show which areas of the brain are the active.
What is fMRI?
This is the part of the nervous system that is associated with relaxing.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
This is the type of psychology involves the psychology of the workplace.
What is industrial organizational (I/O) psychology?
A correlation of -.98 is said to have this.
A strong, negative relationship.
These are the three principles of the Belmont Report.
What is Respect for Persons, Beneficence, and Justice?
This is the part of the brain responsible for emotion regulation and decision making. Phineas Gage damaged this part of his brain during a work accident.
What is the frontal lobe?
This part of the nervous system conveys information between the central nervous system and the skeletal muscles.
What is the somatic nervous system?
This type of psychologist can diagnose mental disorders and prescribe medications.
What is a psychiatrist? (Bonus points if you can say what sort of degree someone needs to become one)
This statistic tells us how strongly and in which direction two measured variables are related.
A correlation coefficient.
This is what occurs when participants are placed in to experimental groups based on chance.
What is random assignment?
This is the order in which action potentials move through the neuron.
What is dendrites to cell body to the axon?
This is the part of the nervous system that controls blood vessels, organs, and glands.
What is the autonomic nervous system?