History of Psychology
This debate focuses on whether traits come from genes or the environment
What is the nature-nurture debate?
This approach uses massive amounts and types of data
What is the big data approach?
If you want to perform research with human subjects, you need to get approval from this board.
What is the institutional review board (IRB)?
This division of the nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
This part of the neuron releases neurotransmitters.
What are the axon terminals?
Also accepted: terminal buttons, synaptic buttons
This French philosopher believed the mind and body are separate.
Who is Descartes?
This project mapped out which areas of the brain talk to one another (a fictional version was worked on by Derek Shepherd in Grey's Anatomy)
What is the Human Connectome Project?
The more you study for Exam 1, the higher your grade will be, showing this kind of correlation.
What is a positive correlation?
This branch of the autonomic nervous system is responsible for "fight-or-flight"
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The action potential uses saltatory conduction and moves faster if the axon has this feature.
What is myelin?
Also accepted: myelination, myelin sheath
Most psychology studies have focused on samples given this acronym.
What is WEIRD?
Yikes--many modern psychology studies don't replicate! Good thing this movement is helping.
What is the open science movement?
This law is also known as Occam's razor--keep things simple!
What is the law of parsimony?
This scan shows brain functioning using radioactive glucose
What is a PET scan?
The concentration of these two ions on the inside and outside of the neuron determine if it will fire.
What are sodium and potassium?
This subfield of psychology was developed in the 1950s with the rise of computers.
What is cognitive psychology?
Becuase of this bias, you believe flushing ice down the toilet will give us another snow day.
What is confirmation bias?
If you performed a study where you observed how many students take notes by hand vs. on a device, you would be engaging in this goal of science.
What is description?
This part of the brain is responsible for spatial memory.
What is the hippocampus?
These drugs inhibit the activity of neurotransmitters.
What are antagonists?
The school of thought in psychology influenced by Darwin and led by William James
What is functionalism?
If a psychologist was looking at how personality explains how clean someone's bedroom is, they are using this level of analysis.
What is the individual level of analysis?
If you want high generalizability/external validity, then you need a representative sample and should recruit subjects using this sampling method.
This brain structure is responsible for homeostasis and motivated behaviors.
What is the hypothalamus?
This is the main excitatory neurotransmitter.
What is glutamate?