What is Psychology?
The two words that make up the word "psychology"
What are Psyche and Logos?
What are dendrites, cell bodies, and nuclei?
What is the independent variable?
The Father of Psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
It indicates the magnitude of a correlation
What is the correlation coefficient?
One of the five basic principles of critical thinking
Why do few "truths" transcend need for empirical testing? or What is wondering what it would take to show that a truth is false? or Why does authority not automatically make an idea true? or Why is it crucial to judge the quality of evidence? or What is an open mind?
The cause of grey matter thinning during child and adolescent development.
What is synaptic pruning?
Translation of an abstract psychological concept into a simple measurement
What is operationalizing a variable?
The school that determines that the mind and body are considered separate
What is Dualism?
It is the test that compares means in a within-subjects design.
What is a paired t test?
Give an example of a pseudopsychology
What is phrenology, palmistry, graphology, astrology
Causes changes in white matter throughout development during childhood and adolescence.
What is myelination?
It is the unmeasured variable that drives an observed correlation between a hypothesized IV and DV by causally influencing both
What is a confound variable?
The school that focused on separating the mind into its basic elements
What is Structuralism?
It is the section of an article that describes the limitations of the research study.
What is the discussion?
When we remember or notice things that confirm our expectations and forget the rest
What is confirmation bias?
Imaging that measures activity and connectivity
What is functional imaging (fMRI)?
The extent to which your procedure will give the same results when repeated in the same manner
What is replicability?
It is the school that is concerned with how behavior and the mind help humans adapt to their environment
What is Functionalism?
Is it the shape of a variable's distribution where scores are evenly distributed around the central tendency.
What is the normal distribution? What is the bell curve?
This effect explains why we believe in horoscopes.
What is the Barnum effect?
Difference between MRI and fMRI
What is a method that measures anatomical structure versus a method that measures blood flow/ metabolic function?
It is the probability that rejecting the null hypothesis is due to chance.
What is the p-value?
The school of psychology that believes that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
It is a study design that does not meet the condition of random assignment and that includes an IV that cannot be manipulated.
What is a quasi-experimental study?