What is Psychology?
The prefix "psycho" means this:
Mind or mental
This lobe of the brain processes visual information.
Occipital
This is a stimulus that doesn't initially trigger a response on its own.
Neutral Stimulus
These are the most common ways to study nature vs nurture
twin studies
What is an example of someone with a Cardinal Trait?
Anyone with characteristic they are known for.
Understand and explain why people, think, feel, and behave as they do.
Which brain scan measures magnetic fields in the brain?
MEG
Memory of a specific event
What is arranging reproduction to increase the occurrence of desirable characteristics?
What psychologists saw traits as building blocks?
Gordon Allport
This is the variable is changed to see its effect on the other variable:
Independent Variable
This lobe of the brain plays a key role in memory.
Temporal Lobe
This is forgetting the period leading up to an inury.
Retrograde Amnesia
This psychologist believed people could be trained to do and become anything, regardless of their genetic background.
John B. Watson
The 5-factor model of personality can be stated as this acronym:
OCEAN- Openness, Conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism.
These experiments document events that happen and often focus on unique issues and rare conditions.
Case Studies
what two parts of the body make up the nervous system?
Brain and Spinal Cord
This is linking information to what we already know.
Elaborative rehearsal
These are the top three causes of death in adolescents
What psychologists took a psychoanalytical approach to personality?
Sigmund Freud
This foundation sets the ethical standards for psychological research:
The American Psychological Association (APA)
How many pairs of Spinal Nerves do we have?
31
Provide the phases of classical conditioning
Phase 1: Unconditioned stimulus and response, Phase 2: Neutral Stimulus is repeatedly paired with unconditional stimulus, Phase 3: Conditioned stimulus will invoke response without an unconditioned stimulus present.
What two psychologists built stages of moral development?
Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg
What are two defense mechanism we use to avoid recognizing ideas or emotions that may cause anxiety?
Repression, Rationalization, Projection, Sublimation