This approach focuses on unconscious motives and conflicts.
What is psychoanalysis?
100
This is a detailed description of a particular individual being studied or treated.
What is a case study?
100
This is a person with a doctoral degree who is licensed to provide psychotherapy for severely disturbed people as well as those with less serious problems.
What is a clinical psychologist?
100
This is a variable that an experimenter manipulates.
What is an independent variable?
100
This division of the autonomic nervous system mobilizes the body for "fight or flight."
What is the sympathetic division?
200
This early psychological approach emphasized the purpose of behavior and consciousness.
What is functionalism?
200
These are questionnaires and interviews that ask people directly about their experiences, attitudes, or opinions.
What are surveys?
200
This is a medical doctor who has done a three-year residency to learn how to diagnose and treat mental disorders.
What is a psychiatrist?
200
In an experiment, this is a comparison condition in which subjects are not exposed to the same treatment as in the experimental condition.
What is a control condition?
200
This structure in the brainstem in involved with the regulation of sleep.
What is the pons?
300
This early psychological approach emphasized the analysis of immediate experience into basic elements.
What is structuralism?
300
This is a controlled test of a hypothesis in which the researcher manipulates one variable to discover its effect on another.
What is an experiment?
300
This term can refer to anyone who does any kind of psychotherapy.
What is a psychotherapist?
300
This is a variable that an experimenter predicts will be affected by the manipulation of another variable.
What is a dependent variable?
300
This lobe of the cortex is involved with the perception of pain, pressure, and temperature.
What is the parietal lobe?
400
This term means relying on, or derived from observation, experimentation, or measurement.
What is empirical?
400
This is a measures of how strongly two variables are related to one another.
What is a correlation?
400
This is a person who has undergone specialized training using Freud's methods and who has also undergone extensive analysis him/herself.
What is a psychoanalyst?
400
This is a procedure for putting people in the experimental and control groups in which each individual has the same probability as any other of being put into a given group.
What is random assignment?
400
This structure in the limbic system is involved with emotion.
What is the amygdala?
500
This psychological approach emphasizes free will, personal growth, resilience, and the achievement of human potential.
What is humanism?
500
This is a study in which the researcher carefully and systematically observes and records behavior without interfering with the behavior.
What is an observational study?
500
This is a person with a master's degree and one or two years of supervised experience who may treat general problems in adjustment and family conflicts.
What is a licensed clinical social worker?
500
This is a type of experiment in which subjects do not know whether they are in an experimental group or a control group.
What is a single-blind study?
500
This brain structure is involved with regulating motor coordination and balance.