Evolution of Psychology
What is psychology?
What is the scientific study of the mind and behavior?
______ describes a hypothetical account
of how and why a phenomenon occurs.
What is a theory?
In order for a neuron to respond to a
particular neurotransmitter it must possess
a(n) ______ for that neurochemical.
What is a receptor?
The process in which a sensory receptor is
stimulated is referred to as...
What is sensation?
What is my favorite color?
Black
Nature is to nurture as ____ is to _____:
heredity and environment
Izzy is preparing for her upcoming exam by
taking practice quizzes online. Each time she
takes the quiz, she is presented with 10 randomly
chosen questions, and every time she receives a
grade of 80%. These results suggest that the quiz
is...
What is reliable?
The junction between nerve cells is known
as the...
What is a synapse?
What neural process must take place in
order for information from the environment to
be experienced by our senses?
What is transduction?
What field of Psychology does Professor Richardson Study?
Industrial Organizational Psychology
Which early philosopher believed that certain kinds of knowledge are innate rather than acquired?
What is Kant?
Reliability is to ____________ as validity is to ______________.
What is consistency and accuracy?
What are the TWO specialized extensions of the neuron that allow it to communicate?
What is dendrites and axons?
The smell of new carpeting in your dorm
room is very strong when you first open the
door. After a few hours you no longer smell
the carpeting. You have experienced:
What is sensory adaptation?
What are the primary colors?
What is Blue, Green, and Red?
A field that attempts to understand the links between cognitive processes and brain activity is...
What is cognitive neuroscience?
Sam thinks she knows what Professor
Black’s study is about, so she responds in a
way that she thinks will help him to support
his hypothesis. It is likely that there are some
______ that are influencing Sam’s behavior.
What is demand characteristics?
T or F
The corpus callosum enables the communication between the left and right brain hemispheres.
What is True?
Which type of emission has the LONGEST wavelength?
What is radio waves?
What is the name of the girl who had half her brain removed?
Who is Jodie?
Nadia studies the effects of socioeconomic status on visual perception. Nadia is most likely a...
What is a cultural psychologist?
Which kind of research would best enable you to predict academic success on the basis of performance on standard intelligence tests?
What is correlational research?
Reaching for your coffee cup is accomplished by the _____ subdivision of the peripheral nervous system.
What is somatic?
Jordan was born without hair cells and has been deaf since birth. She experiences which type of hearing loss?
What is sensorineural?
Olfactory receptor neurons in the nose that detect chemical odorants are examples of...
What is sensory neurons?