Put in Perspective
This perspective focused on how mental activities helped an organism fit into this world
What is functionalism?
Who is the father of psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
Which part of the brain focuses on survival functions?-Forebrain, Midbrain, and Hindbrain
Hindbrain
Increase in sensitivity in low light which allow very sensitive rods to pick up low light signals?
Dark adaptation
What does not imply causation?
Correlation
feminist perspective
Who is the first American Psychologist?
William James
Which lobe is responsible for receiving senses of touch?
A)frontal
b)parietal
C)temporal
D)occipital
Parietal
Aaron is walking late night at night, which sensory receptors is he most likely using?
Rods
This variable affects both variables of interest at the same time and gives the impression of an cause and effect relationship
Confounding variable
This contemporary perspective focuses on the treatment and problematic behaviors?
clinical
These guys focused on observable behavior? Hint-There are multiple people you can name in this catergory
Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner
Chemicals which carry a charge and over time can excite or inhibit the next nuerons action potential are called what?
Neurotransmitters
Hertz is a measure of what?
Frequency
This study is when both participants and researchers are unaware of group assignments
double blind study
This perspective focuses on the whole is greater than its parts
Gestalt
Carl Rogers and Maslow focused on this perspective where the focus was on the potential for good and becoming our best self?
Humanism or Humanistic Psychology
Which is division is responsible for rest and recovery?
Parasympthateic
The stimulation of a receptor cell in one sense of the organs is called?
Sensation, not to be confused with perception in which the brain organizes raw sensory data in meaningul experience
Theories must be testable and _______?
This psychologist in this perspectives often are involved in matters pertaining to personnel management, organizational structure, and workplace environment
industrial organization
Which behaviorist had a box in which rats pressed a lever for food in order to study operant conditiioning?
Skinner and his box is called Skinners box
Anthony has Parkinson's disease which means his _____________ is prodcuing less dopamine?
A)hypothalamus
B)substania nigra
C)hippocampus
D)thalamus
B) substania nigra
Jennifer has been depressed for several months, and she decided to take an overdose of sleeping pills. After taking the pills, her breathing rate decreased dramatically, her heart slowed down, and her blood pressure decreased. Which brain structure is the drug acting on?
A) medulla
B) pons
C)amygdala
D)reticular formation
A) medulla
This board makes sure that human research is done ethically?
IRB