Overview of Psychology
The formal definition of psychology
What is "the scientific study of behavior and the mind"?
The process of re-running an experiment using exactly the same methods as the original experiment
What is direct replication?
The insulating covering of a neuron that helps it send messages to the terminal buttons
What is the myelin sheath?
The location of the human visual blind spot
What is the optic nerve?
Scientists [are / are not] susceptible to bias and motivated reasoning.
are
The scientific process of continually questioning, refining, re-testing, and learning from history to better understand reality
What is gradual triangulation?
The process by which a manuscript becomes a journal article
What is peer review?
The type of nervous system that would kick in to help calm down the body after encountering a dangerous or stressful situation
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The part of the brain associated with processing auditory information
What is the primary auditory cortex?
Humans can perceive [all /some] of the full light spectrum.
some
The father of American psychology and founder of functionalism
Who is William James?
This principle is where we get the requirement for informed consent
What is "respect for persons"?
A research design used to study genetic influences in animals through genetic manipulation
What are "knock-out" or "knock-in" studies?
How we make sense of our senses
What is perception?
In our daily lives, we use [only a small fraction / nearly all] of our brain's capacity.
nearly all
A collection of theoretical perspectives that oppose the "brain as computer" metaphor by emphasizing the brain-body-environment connection
What is post-cognitivism?
A research design that is used when researchers are trying to design a structured study about something that's unethical or impossible to change
What is a correlational research design?
A type of research that has helped researchers understand the lateralization of brain function
What are studies of split-brain patients?
This sense is connected strongly to the visual system and is closely related to parts of the body associated with the auditory system
What is the vestibular sense?
Any hypothesis can be posed by [only one / more than one] theory.
more than one
A research method invented by Wilhelm Wundt that was also used in functionalism and continues to be used by modern psychological scientists, including language researchers
What is reaction time?
A problematic experiment that demonstrated the power of motivated reasoning for scientists (along with lots of ethical and methodological problems)
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
The way that new genes are naturally introduced into the genetic code (and a critical component for natural selection by evolution)
What are random genetic mutations?
A perceptual-auditory illusion that demonstrates how multiple types of sensory information can be combined to influence perception
What is the McGurk effect?
Different parts of the brain are [associated with / caused by] different kinds of behavior
associated with