Starting Psych Journey
Brief History
Beauty of Diversity
Scientific Method
Types of Research
Correlational & Experimental Analysis
Quality of Research
Neurons & Synapses
Nervous Systems
Electrochemical Brain
Brain Parts & Functions
Endocrine System
100
The two disciplines that were studying mental processes & behaviors before psychology became a science
What are philosophy & physiology?
100
This approach to psychology believed that the only way to be objective and scientific was to focus on observable behaviors
What is the behavioralist approach or behaviorism?
100
Psychology, like all human endeavors, has a history of systematic ____
What is prejudice?
100
A specific statement about the expected outcome of a study
What is a hypothesis?
100
Only type of research one can assume causality with
What is a true experiment?
100
A visual representation of a correlation
What is a scatterplot?
100
What the "E" stand for in the acronym WEIRD
What is educated?
100
Neurotransmitter whose messages (or effects) decrease the likelihood of the receiving neuron firing are called this
What is inhibitory or an inhibitory message?
100
The somatic nervous system is responsible for _____ movements.
What is voluntary?
100
Drugs that block neurotransmitters' effects
What is an antagonist?
100
The oldest part of the human brain
What is the hindbrain?
100
The endocrine system communicates using _____ that are released into the bloodstream.
What are hormones?
200
The five pillars of the Introductory Psychology Initiative stands on this foundation [two words]
What is research methods?
200
James & Thordike's approach to psychology
What is functionalism?
200
Harvard refused to give this person a doctorate even though they had competed all the doctorate requirements
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
200
The second step in the scientific method
What is generate a hypothesis or hypothesis?
200
Research that uses preexisting groups
What is a quasi-experiment?
200
You'll be reminded of this analysis when you think of beer
What is a t-test?
200
The best way to avoid a biased sample and have a stronger case for generalizability
What is random sampling?
200
These cells function as the backroom janitorial, maintenance & administrative staff for the neurons
What are glial cells?
200
The automatic, involuntary responses to stimuli that are controlled by the spinal cord
What is a reflex or reflexes?
200
When the work of a neurotransmitter is completed in the synapse, it's reabsorbed into the neuron that released it
What is reuptake?
200
This system is involved in processing emotion, motivation & memory
What is the limbic system?
200
The major/master/commander gland.
What is the pituitary gland?
300
This group calls itself "the leading scientific & professional organization representing psychology" in North America [three words - not the acronym - the full name
What is the American Psychological Association?
300
Was considered a pioneer of therapy & counseling
Who is Sigmund Freud or Freud?
300
Laura King is part of and has published over 100 articles & book chapters based on this community
What is the LGBTQ+ or LGBTQ community?
300
What must a discipline use to be considered a science [two words]
What is the scientific method?
300
The most common research methodology
What are surveys?
300
This scatterplot represents what type [direction] of correlation
What is negative?
300
Reliability refers to whether the measurement was _______
What is consistent?
300
The three types of neurons
What are motor, sensory & interneurons?
300
This nervous system consists of neurons that form the communication network between the central nervous system and the body parts
What is the peripheral nervous system?
300
The sacs that release neurotransmitters into the synaptic gap
What are vesicles or synaptic vesicles?
300
Part of brain that controls breathing, heart rate & blood pressure
What is the medulla oblongata?
300
Gland whose hormones control metabolism
What is the thyroid gland?
400
"A degree in psychology is a degree without _____"
What are limits?
400
Taught the first psychology course in the United States
Who is William James or James?
400
First Latina women to earn a PhD in psychology in the United States
Who is Martha Bernal or Bernal?
400
The first step in building a construct
What is operationalization?
400
The influencing variable at the beginning of a study
What is the independent variable?
400
What one would use to analyze differences in three or more groups
What is an ANOVA or ANalysis Of VAriance?
400
A study high in internal validity helps one rule out ________ explanations
What is alternate?
400
These speed up and regulate the pace of neural messages [red arrows - three words]
What are the nodes of Ranvier?
400
That people's brains process information, function & lead to behaviors differently
What is neurodiversity?
400
Neurotransmitters & dendrite receptors act like a system of [three words]
What are locks and keys?
400
The two cortexes these figures are meant to represent?
What are the motor and somatosensory areas or cortexes?
400
Brain structure connects the nervous system to the endocrine system
What is the hypothalamus?
500
Zora Neale Hurston noted that "research is formalized ______. It is poking and prying with a purpose"
What is curiosity?
500
This allowed psychology to become what it is today and is it's most fundamental principle [two words]
What is the scientific method?
500
The person Watson, Crick & Wilkins stole the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA from in 1962
Who is Rosalind Franklin or Franklin?
500
This/these makes psychology a challenging discipline to do research in
What are ethics?
500
Two ways one could set up a true experiment
What are "between" & "within" participants designs?
500
When variables appear to be related but it's actually a meaningless pattern
What is a spurious or false correlation?
500
The three questions you should ask when evaluating research
What are "who were the participants", "was everything in the study done correctly" & "is this study CRAAP"? [or some semblance of the above which I say is OK]
500
Neurons operate on this principle ________________ [three words]. Meaning it either fires or not.
HINT: Action potential
What is all-or-none?
500
This division or nervous system is important in supporting homeostasis
What is the parasympathetic division or nervous system?
500
Optimal behavioral functioning usually involves the ____ ____ amount of the ____ ____ neurotransmitters at the ____ ____ moments. [Answer is the same two words for each set of blanks]
HINT: Goldilocks
What is "just right"?
500
The only sense that does not pass through the thalamus
What is smell or olfactory?
500
This chemical is both a neurotransmitter and a hormone
What is oxytocin?