History of Psychology
This is the psychologist responsible for creating the first ever psychological laboratory. The father of experimental psychology.
Wilhelm Wundt
The process we use to ask questions about the world and then test our predictions for an outcome.
Scientific Method
These two elements form the central nervous system (must get both for points).
Brain and the spinal cord
This is the oldest and most inner part of the brain.
Brainstem
The summary at the beginning of a scholarly journal article.
Abstract.
This is the Greek Philosopher (300 BC) who made many psychological observation and guesses but did not test any hypotheses.
Aristotle
A research design that looks to uncover cause and effect between variables.
Experimental Design
This is the name of the nerve cells that make up the human body.
Neuron
This is the part of the brain that sits on top (and around the top) of the brainstem.
Limbic System
This is the name of the format in which US-based, scholarly articles about psychological topics are written.
American Psychological Association Format (or APA format)
Developed by Tichener, this school of thought believed that individual's subjective experiences were most important.
Structuralism
A research design that looks at the naturally occurring relationship between two variables.
Correlational Design
This is the name of the chemicals that are passed between neurons and help facilitate communication between cells.
Neurotransmitters
Lobe of the brain that is at the front of the head behind the forehead.
Frontal Lobe
This is the introduction section of a journal article. It often gives the background information that forms the basis for the study.
Literature Review
This psychologist was concerned with unconscious processes and believed that human development was completed by adolescence.
Sigmund Freud
In an experiment, the group of participants that receives the intervention.
Experimental Group
This nervous system is responsible for the communication of sensory and motor neurons thought the body.
Peripheral Nervous System
The structure that is part of the limbic system that is responsible for intense emotions.
Amygdala
This is the place in a scholarly journal article to most likely locate the hypothesis.
At the end of the literature review
This is the scientific study of observable behavior in the absence of psychological processes.
Behaviorism
In a study measuring the effects of soda on weight. Weight is the _____________ variable.
Dependent
This is the tiny space between neurons that neurotransmitters cross when moving from one neuron to the next.
Synapse
The part of the brain, sometimes called the little brain, that is responsible for voluntary motor coordination.
Cerebellum
The name of the fancy type of magazine where scholarly articles are published for public viewing. They are often released on a timed bases (i.e. quarterly, or semi annually).
Periodical