Fields in Psychology
Field of psychology that looks at how biology influences behavior.
What is biopsychology?
Study design where both the experimenter and the research participant don't know which group the participant was assigned to.
What is a double-blind study?
A type of research that uses previously collected data.
What is archival research?
The part of the neuron that receives information from other neurons.
What is "the dendrites"?
What is the central nervous system?
Applied field of psychology that focuses on diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders.
What is clinical psychology?
The variable that the experimenter measures to assess if what they changed in their experiment had an effect.
What is the dependent variable?
A type of research where the observer does not interfere with the subjects while they are in their natural habitat.
What is naturalistic observation?
Part of the neuron that contains the nucleus, and other organelles.
What is the soma?
Part of the hindbrain that controls motor coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
Psychological theory founded by Sigmund Freud that places emphasis on early childhood experiences and how they influence the unconscious mind.
What is psychoanalytic theory/psychoanalysis?
Letter representing the correlation coefficient.
A research type that can easily get huge amounts of responses from large samples.
What is survey research?
The "bubbles" at the terminal buttons that contain neurotransmitters.
What are synaptic vesicles?
Part of the limbic system known as the "fear center" of the brain.
What is the amygdala?
Field of psychology that focuses on behaviors only.
What is behaviorism?
The ability to get the same result repeatedly/consistently.
What is reliability?
A type of research that compares multiple cohorts at once.
What is cross-sectional research?
The all-or-nothing electrical signal that travels down the axon.
What is the action potential?
Refers to the brain's ability to adapt and change itself.
What is neuroplasticity?
Field of psychology that focuses on studying thoughts, thought patterns, and their relationships to experiences.
What is cognitive psychology?
The group in an experiment that does not get the treatment/condition that the experimenter is testing.
What is the control group?
The major issue with clinical or case studies.
What is generalizability?
Type of drug that enhances NT function at the synapse.
What is an agonist?
One of the four lobes of the brain, entirely dedicated to processing vision.
What is the occipital lobe?