History of Psychology
Psychology's parents - two subjects
What are Philosophy and Physiology?
A system of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations
What is a theory?
The manipulated variable
What is the Independent Variable?
Two divisions of the Nervous System
What are the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems?
The four lobes of the brain
What are the Frontal, Parietal, Temporal and Occipital Lobes?
He put rats in boxes
Who is Skinner?
The approach Psychology uses to investigate phenomenon
What is Empirical?
The group that does not receive the manipulated variable
What is the Control Group?
Responsible for the communication in the Nervous System
What are Neurons?
Four parts of the Forebrain
What are the cerebrum (cerebral cortex), limbic system, thalamus and hypothalamus?
Where Psychology went through adolescence
What is America?
Third step of the Scientific Method
What is Collect the Data?
Direction of the relationship in a correlation of -.82
What is Negative?
This nervous system arouses the body in times of need
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
Important structure in the Midbrain
What is the Reticular Activating System?
This type of Psychology believes that humans are unique with the capability for personal growth
What is Humanistic Psychology/Humanism?
The third goal of the Scientific Method
What are Application and Control?
When two variables are linked in a way that makes it difficult to sort out their specific effects
What is a Confounding of Variables?
These nerves take information away from the Central Nervous System
What are Efferent Nerves?
Controls muscle tension, bodily coordination and balance
What is the Cerebellum?
Method Wundt used to collect data
What is introspection?
What is the biggest advantage of using Scientific Investigations/Method
What is its relative intolerance of error?
Biggest weakness of the Survey Method
What is Relies on Self Report Data?
The body's information super highway
What is the Spinal Cord?
Connects the two hemispheres of the brain
What is the Corpus Callosum?