Introduction to Psychology
This type of psychologist evaluates and helps children in school settings
What is a school psychologist?
This half of the nature/nurture perspective emphasizes the importance of one’s genes and biology
What is nature?
This type of research involves observation of participants when they do not know they are being observed
What is naturalistic observation?
This is the electrical impulse that gets fired when a neuron is communicating
What is an action potential?
This is the educational degree required by psychologists (Not psychiatrists)
What is a Ph.D. in psychology?
This type of psychologist works in business and work environments
What is an I/O psychologist?
He is credited as the Father of Modern Psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This is the group a sample is meant to represent
What is a population?
This part of the neuron is responsible for receiving message and conducting impulses towards the cell body
What are the dendrites?
This type of research cannot result in a causal conclusion
What is correlational research?
This branch of psychology deals with the treatment of severe disorders as opposed to issues of adjustment
What is clinical psychology?
This branch of research psychology is concerned with solving practical problems
What is applied psychology?
This type of research involves simply asking participants to report their thoughts and opinions
What is survey research?
This branch of the autonomic NS calms the body to conserve and maintain energy (rest and digest)
What is the parasympathetic NS?
This part of the neuron speeds up communication along the axon
What is the myelin sheath?
This perspective of psychology made famous by Watson and Skinner is best described as only studying observable responses.
This type of doctor can prescribe drugs (within the realm of psychology)
This Austrian neurologist popularized the psychodynamic perspective
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This variable causes a change in another variable in experimental research
What is the independent variable?
This lobe of the brain is responsible for auditory information
What is the temporal lobe?
These were some of the main focuses of the psychodynamic perspective (No mother stuff!)
What are unconscious desires?
The definition of psychology
What is the scientific study of behavior and the mind/mental processes?
The main focus of Behaviorism
What is observable behavior?
This is the effect of a treatment that arises from a patient’s expectations WITHOUT an actual IV
What is the placebo effect?
This is the definition of the endocrine system
What is a series of glands throughout the body that releases hormones?
This is what it is called when the brain changes itself in response to experience
What is neuroplasticity?