People in Psych
This person influenced the behaviorist approach
Who is John B. Watson?
This system of child development is best described as having a bidirectional influence
What is the microsystem?
What are neurons?
States that things that are close together tend to be grouped together
What is proximity principle?
This is data that can be numbered
What is quantitative data?
This person opened the first psychology lab, ever
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This is the transmission of traits from parents to offspring
What is heredity?
This is the shell-shaped structure in your inner ear that holds hair cells and fluid; it works with both hearing and vestibular senses
What is the cochlea?
The technical term for sound
What is audition?
This is data that cannot be numbered
What is qualitative data?
This person influenced psychodynamic approach with their concept of psychotherapy
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This is the umbrella term for symptoms such as changes in memory, reasoning, judgement, language, and other thinking skills
What is dementia?
This is the lobe of the brain involved with vision
What is the occipital lobe?
When sensory information is detected by a sensory receptor
What is sensation?
This is a type of study that looks at cause-and-effect relationships
What is an experiment?
This person opened the first psychology lab in the United States
Who is G. Stanley Hall?
This is the word used to describe having two or more diseases or disorders at the same time
What is comorbidity?
This is the gland referred to at the "master" gland
What is the pituitary gland?
The minimum amount of a stimulus that someone can detect 50% of the time
What is absolute threshold?
This is a type of study that looks for a relationship between variables
What is a correlation?
This person influenced the humanistic approach
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This is the first stage of a pregnancy
What is the germinal stage?
This is a gland that produces T-cells
What is the thymus?
Reflects the idea that the whole is different from the sum of its parts
What is gestalt psychology?
This is a type of study where researchers collect and analyze stories from a variety of individuals
What is a narrative?