Schools of Thought
Founding Fathers
Method behind the Madness
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Brainy and Nervous
100
This approach emphasizes the unique qualities of people, especially their freedom and potential for personal growth.
What is humanistic?
100
This founding father emphasized the influence of unconscious thought, childhood experiences, and sexual drives.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100
This is a tentative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
What is a hypothesis?
100
In an experiment, the variable manipulated by the researcher is known as this kind of variable.
What is independent?
100
This is the large bundle of axons that connects the brain's two hemispheres and relays information between the two sides.
What is the corpus callosum?
200
This approach involves the study of observable actions and responses.
What is behavioral?
200
This historical figure is credited with founding psychology as a scientific discipline.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
200
In this kind of research method, the investigator manipulates one variable and measures the effects on another variable.
What is an experiment?
200
Especially during the holiday season, as traffic on Woodruff Rd increases, speed of travel decreases. What we witness on Woodruff Rd is this kind of relationship.
What is a negative correlation?
200
This occurs when a change in the polarity of a neuron sweeps down the axon, resulting from the inflow of positively charged ions and the outflow of negatively charged ions.
What is an action potential?
300
This approach to psychology views the mind as an active and aware problem-solving system.
What is cognitive?
300
He is the leading architect of the humanistic movement who developed the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
300
These involve in-depth explorations of particular individuals, families, or social groups.
What are case studies?
300
A researcher wants to know whether eating a healthy breakfast at school helps students perform better academically. Half of the children are given a healthy breakfast to eat, while the other half is not given any breakfast at school. The children who are not given breakfast are in this group.
What is the control group?
300
Karla took some new medication for her hay fever. The medication made her heart start to race, and she became agitated and jittery. It is likely that the medication is increasing the activity in this division of Karla’s nervous system.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
400
Dr. Farr studies the willingness of individuals from different ethnic groups to engage in volunteerism. His work falls within this approach to psychology.
What is sociocultural?
400
These are the three leading behaviorists whose work led to our current understanding of classical conditioning and operant conditioning.
Who are Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner?
400
Jocelyn believed that there were gender differences in driving habits. To test this assumption she stood near a quiet intersection. Jocelyn recorded the gender of each driver who approached a stop sign, and also whether the individual came to a complete stop before proceeding into the intersection. Jocelyn is using this kind of research method.
What is naturalistic observation?
400
Erin believes the pill her doctor gave her has cured her of her depression, even though the pill contained no active ingredients. Erin's belief that she is better now is an example of this effect.
What is placebo?
400
This standard technique allows scientists to see what areas of the brain are active during a task by monitoring oxygenated blood levels.
What is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)?
500
This approach might conclude that forgetting to pick his mother up at the airport was Henry's unconscious way of saying that he did not welcome her visit.
What is psychodynamic?
500
She developed the first feminist criticism of Freud's theory, and emphasized women's positive qualities and self-evaluation.
Who is Karen Horney?
500
Dr. Ryan is interested in comparing whether young adults who have attended college are more likely to save money than young adults who have not attended college. This kind of research method would be the best and most suitable way to study Dr. Ryan's research question.
What is a survey?
500
The mean, median, and mode are all measures of this statistical concept.
What is central tendency?
500
The right hemisphere of the cerebral cortex is generally dominant for processing this type of information.
What is visuospatial/nonverbal?
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