Introduction
Research Methods
Biology of the Mind
Consciousness, Sleep, & Dreams
Genes, Evolution, Environment, & Culture
100
Dr. Mills conducts research on why individuals conform to the behaviors and opinions of others. The subfield of psychology that his research best represents is
What is social psychology?
100
A researcher wants to measure love between romantic couples. She decides to measure love by keeping track of how often the couple’s hold hands, kiss, and say “I love you.” These measurement choices are part of the researcher’s ____________ of love.
What is an operationalization?
100
Rick Grimes is trying to assess which areas of the brain have been affected in zombies. Among the notable changes in those who have recently become zombies are their movements—which are now jerkier and less organized. Due to this, Grimes concludes that the _________ must be affected.
What is frontal lobe (motor cortex)?
100
Blocking people from experiencing ______ leads to impaired memory.
What is REM (rapid eye movement)?
100
According to research in evolutionary psychology, males are more concerned about _____ infidelity, whereas females are more concerned with _________ infidelity.
What are sexual; emotional?
200
Name the two fields that psychology grew out of.
What are physiology and philosophy?
200
Name two of the core values of science.
What are Accuracy; objectivity; skepticism; open-mindedness?
200
Split brain research has primarily been done on people whose ___________ have been severed.
What is a Corpus callosum?
200
This cycle impacts bodily processes such as body temperature, blood pressure and metabolism.
What is circadian rhythm?
200
Briefly explain one piece of evidence that gender is socialized.
Different gender roles in different generations and different cultures; more genders (& sexes) in some cultures; we feel like we have to “fix” people who are intersex; we focus on differences between genders rather than difference within; etc.
300
The psychological school of thought that focuses on the influence of unconscious forces on behavior.
What is psychodynamics/Freudian psychology?
300
Explain one way that values can affect research/findings.
Choice of topic, questions asked, choice of methods, interpretation of results, application
300
Professor Carvel wants to study what parts of the brain are active while participants eat a delicious ice cream cake. She thinks the best way to do this is to examine the oxygenated blood flow in the brain. Which tool will she use?
What is a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)?
300
When first going to bed, people sometimes experience a falling sensation that quickly wakes the sleeper up. What is this experience called?
What is a hypnic jerk?
300
James had to wear glasses from an early age. Because of this, people tended to think he was very smart and to treat him accordingly. James worked hard to meet these expectations, and eventually graduated at the top of his class and became a doctor. This is an example of a(n)
What is an evocative interaction?
400
Name the four levels of analysis.
What are Biological; Personal/psychological; Socio-cultural; Physical environment?
400
Give an example of a positive correlation and an example of a negative correlation.
Positive—moving in the same direction; negative—moving in opposite directions
400
_________ are the chemicals that travel through our bloodstream and affect our behavior; while __________ are the chemicals that we secrete to trigger a social response from other people.
What are hormones; pheromones?
400
A client tells his therapist about a dream in which he drives his wife to the airport where she boards a plane. As the plane takes off, he is smiling. The therapist says the dream suggests a desire for a divorce. The therapist’s interpretation represents what Sigmund Freud called the dream’s __________ and the story of the dream is the ________________.
What are Latent content; manifest content?
400
Name two critiques of evolutionary theory.
Ignores similarities between sexes & diversity within a sex; cannot be tested empirically; leads to essentialist thinking about gender behaviors; many findings explained by more proximal predictors
500

Some psychologists focus on normal vs. abnormality and other might focus on rationality vs. irrationality. Explain the difference between these areas of study.

Normal vs. abnormal: what typically happens? How do our minds work so well? What happens when things go wrong? Why don’t our minds work sometimes

Rationality vs. irrationality, not just a matter of “normal” vs. “abnormal psychology”, disorders, etc. “regular” psychologically healthy people often are irrational (personality, social)

500
Sam wants to study whether the amount of time spent watching you-tube videos of puppies influences how well PSYC 101 students perform on their mid-terms. State the independent and dependent variables.
IV: Time spent watching You-tube videos of puppies DV: Performance on midterms
500
Messages are sent from the ____________ of one neuron to the __________ of the receiving neuron.
What are terminal branches; dendrites?
500
Dominic is a hyper-masculine man, who feels like showing emotions is too feminine, and, as a consequence, is very stoic. Recently, he has been having a re-occurring dream where he is taking care of kittens and crying over how cute they are. Carl Jung would suggest that this is his psyche’s attempt to balance out his psyche by allowing for the feminine side to be expressed. This is because Jung believed that dreams serve a __________ function.
What is compensatory?
500
Name 2 of the areas (other than jealousy) where evolutionary psychologists expect the sexes to differ.
What are mate preferences; desire for sexual variety; aggression?
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