Psychology is the scientific study of these three things.
What are the person, mind, and brain?
100
True or False: Having different research assistants who are trained by different people to ask survey questions differently would generally be considered a design flaw.
What is True
100
The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems are part of this system, which is part of the peripheral nervous system. This system controls more "automatic" things like breathing.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
100
Awareness and personal experience of oneself and one’s surroundings
What is consciousness?
100
Rapidly occurring sometimes intense psychological state
What is an emotion?
200
Using this method, a psychologist (or any scientific researcher) will make hypotheses, collect evidence, record observations systematically, and record how they made those observations
What is the scientific method?
200
This type of research involves words rather than numbers. It might includes conducting interviews or focus groups.
What is qualitative research?
200
This is the part of the brain in charge of human's ability to focus attention and manipulate information. It is located in the frontal lobe.
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
200
Alcohol is a well-known drug in this category of psychoactive drugs
What is a depressant?
200
A prolonged consistent feeling state; can be described on two dimensions: valence (negative or positive) and arousal (high or low)
What is Mood
300
This type of thinking is when someone thinks logically, questions assumptions, evaluates evidence, and, more generally, is open-minded yet skeptical about information they hear
What is critical thinking?
300
A sample in which each individual’s inclusion, or not, is determined by a chance process. We use this process to try and generate a representative sample, in which the qualities of the individuals included match those of the overall population.
What is a random sample?
300
These are chemical substances that travel across synapses between neuron, which is the primary way that neurons communicate
What are nuerotransmitters?
300
Sleep stage during which there is rapid eye movement, frequent dreams, and brain activity resembling that of waking periods. Also the name of the band that your instructor attended her first concert to see.
What is REM?
300
These theories posit that our evaluation of the personal meaning of events determine our emotion response
What are appraisal theories of emotion?
400
These 2 early schools of psychological thought are focused primarily on the basic structures of the mind and the study of the mind in action.
What are structuralism and functionalism?
400
These are the the 3 main goals of psychological research. Based on the goals, research will be conducted via different methods (e.g. a correlational study versus an experiment)
What are description, prediction, and causal explanation?
400
This is the contemporary term for the "Paleomammalian brain"
What is the limbic system?
400
This is Freud's theory that dreams release unconscious mental energy through wish fulfillment; there is weak scientific evidence for this theory
What is wish fulfillment theory?
400
These are thoughts you have prior to an event, such as "this will be a great exam! I'll do so well" that can influence your emotional experience of the event itself