Foundations of Psych
This is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is Psychology
This is the systematic process used by psychologists to ask and answer questions.
What is the scientific method?
When one variable goes up and the other also goes up, this type of correlation is present.
What is a positive correlation?
The cells that support and nourish neurons are called these.
What are glial cells?
This term refers to our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
What is consciousness?
The “Dead Man Test” states that if a dead man can do it, it’s not this.
What is behavior?
This research method involves in-depth study of a single individual.
What is a case study?
A correlation of –0.80 is this in strength and this in direction.
*Strong and Negative
*Weak and Positive
What is strong and negative?
The two main parts of the nervous system are these.
What are the central and peripheral nervous systems?
The Stroop task demonstrates limitations in this mental process.
What is attention?
The belief that mind and body are separate is called this, while the belief they are one is called this.
What are dualism and monism?
The tradeoff between controlling all variables and maintaining real-world conditions is called this.
What is experimental control vs. environmental realism?
In an experiment, the variable manipulated by the researcher is this.
What is the independent variable?
The sympathetic nervous system prepares the body for this, while the parasympathetic restores it.
What are fight-or-flight and rest-and-digest?
This dream stage features rapid eye movements and vivid imagery.
What is REM sleep?
This concept means a theory must be testable and potentially proven wrong.
What is falsifiability?
This measure ensures participants understand a study and agree to take part voluntarily.
What is informed consent?
The group that does not receive the treatment serves as this.
What is the control group?
This lobe is responsible for higher-order thinking, planning, and decision-making.
What is the frontal lobe?
One function of sleep is consolidating this type of memory.
What is long-term memory?
This type of definition specifies exactly how a concept will be measured or manipulated in research.
What is an operational definition?
This infamous unethical study withheld treatment for syphilis from African American men.
What is the Tuskegee Study?
A third variable that unintentionally influences results is called this.
What is a confounding variable?
This brain structure controls circadian rhythms, including the sleep-wake cycle.
What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus?
Sleep disorders include insomnia, narcolepsy, and this condition where breathing stops during sleep.
What is sleep apnea?