This early school of psychology focused on the purpose or consequences of mental actions, rather than the individual components of thought.
What is functionalism?
100
This measure of central tendency is the sum of all the scores being assessed divided by the number of scores assessed.
What is the mean?
100
These 46 assortments of DNA are the basis for your genome.
What are chromosomes?
100
This is a measure of emotional reactivity and responsiveness in children, associated with emotional life and feelings of emotional control in adulthood.
What is temperament?
100
This method of data collection requires an individual to go out and observe behaviors of people or animals in the real world.
What is naturalistic observation?
200
Humility is part of what?
What is "a scientific attitude"?
200
This measure of variance is the highest score minus the lowest score.
What is the range?
200
A cell with only 23 chromosomes, like a sperm or egg, is called this:
What is a gamete?
200
This is the first stage of cognitive development according to Piaget.
What is the sensorimotor period?
200
This is the evolutionary force promoting certain traits and behaviors by allowing individuals with those traits or behaviors to survive better and produce more offspring than those without those traits.
What is natural selection?
300
This is a testable statement, intended to provide a context to assess the validity of a theory.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This measure, signified by the letter r, is a measure of the extent to which two variables are related.
What is the correlation coefficient?
300
Certain traits, like height, are said to be due largely to genetics. Such traits are called highly _________.
What is heritable?
300
These are the assortments of beliefs, attitudes, and ideals shared between individuals belonging to a group.
What is a culture?
300
These are culturally enforced rules of standard or acceptable behavior: like tea and dress codes.
What are norms?
400
This method of data collection asks many questions of many people, assessing them on a variety of variables in a short period of time.
What is a survey?
400
This is the highest value a correlation coefficient can have.
What is 1?
400
This is the percentage of DNA shared between identical twins.
What is 100%?
400
This begins with puberty.
What is adolescence?
400
Although it starts with "in", this was a popular method for collecting psychological data before the rise of behaviorism.
What is introspection?
500
Data which are both empiracle and systematic are also this.
What is intersubjective?
500
When assessing the significance of statistical assessments, researchers look to this particular value to determine if a correlation is powerful enough or if groups are different enough from each other to say those correlations or differences are significant, rather than likely the result of random chance.
What is the p-value?
500
These researchers are interested in what makes other people appear attractive, meaning that we are more likely to try and mate with them.
Who are evolutionary psychologists?
500
This is the last portion of your brain to gain myelin. It is also the part of your brain associated with impulse control and planning.
What is the frontal lobe?
500
This is the ability of your neurons to form new connections as a result of experience or practice.