Term
A form of critical thinking based on careful measurement and controlled observation.
What is Scientific Method?
The application of cognitive and behavioral strategies to reduce stress and improve coping skills.
What is Stress Management?
A brain area associated with movement, the sense of self and higher mental functioning.
What is frontal lobes?
The development of self-awareness, attachment to parents or caregivers, and relationships with other children and adults.
What is social development?
Observation, define the problem, propose a hypothesis, gather evidence; test hypothesis, either reject or retain the hypothesis, publish results, theory building
What are the steps to theory building?
Thinking that produces many ideas or alternatives; a major element in original or creative thought,
What is Divergent Thinking?
The ongoing process of fully developing one's personal potential.
What is Self-Actualization?
Any condition that changes or can be made to change; a measure, event or stat that may vary.
What is a variable?
The process of thinking or mentally processing information (images, concepts, words, rules and symbols).
What is cognition?
Frontal lobe, Parietal lobe, Occipital lobe, cerebellum
What are the 4 lobes of the cerebral cortex?
The predicted outcome of an experiment or an educated guess about the relationship between variables.
What is Hypothesis?
Was interested in studying people of exceptional mental health.
Who is Maslow?
Brain chemicals that regulate the activity of neurons, such as enkephalins and endorphins
What are Neuropeptides?
Schizophrenia marked by a preoccupation with delusions or by frequent auditory hallucinations related to a single theme, especially grandeur or persecution.
What is Paranoid Schizophrenia?
Calkins, Ladd-Franklin, and Washburn
Who are historical women psychologists?
The presumed hereditary raediness of humans to learn certain skills, such as how to use language, or a readiness to behave in particular ways.
What is Biological Predisposition?
A group of subjects exposed to all experimental conditions or variables except the independent variable.
What is a Control Group?
A pleasant and reassuring feeling human and animal infants get from touching or clinging to something soft and warm, usually their mother.
What is contact comfort?
The physical core of personality, including emotional and perceptual sensitivity, energy levels and typical mood.
What is temperament?
A procedure use to control both research participant bias And Researcher bias in drug experiments.
What is a Double-blinded technique?
Individuals like Carl Jung and Alfred Adler, who modified the ideas of Sigmund Freud, putting more emphasis on social motives and relationships.
What is Neo-Freudian?
The study of human strengths, virtues and effective functioning.
What is Positive Psychology?
Positron emission tomography; a computer-generated image of brain activity based on glucose consumption in the brain.
What is a PET scan?
Ct scans cannot determine which part of your brain plays a role in speech because CT scans
What is reveal brain structure, not brain activity?