Founders and Perspectives (Ch. 1)
He is known as the "father of psychology" and opened the first psychology lab in Germany.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
A testable prediction is called this.
What is a hypothesis?
The nervous system is divided into two main parts: the central and the ___________ nervous system.
What is the peripheral?
This neurotransmitter is linked to mood, and low levels are associated with depression.
What is serotonin?
The minimum amount of stimulus energy needed to be detected 50% of the time is the ___________.
What is the absolute threshold?
This school of psychology focused on how mental activities helped organisms adapt to their environment.
What is functionalism?
This type of study follows the same group of people over a long period of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
The lobe of the brain responsible for vision is the ___________ lobe.
What is the occipital lobe?
This neurotransmitter is linked to pleasure and reward, but too little is linked to Parkinson’s disease.
What is dopamine?
This law states that the difference threshold is a constant proportion of the original stimulus.
What is Weber's law?
This psychologist developed psychoanalysis, focusing on the unconscious mind.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
In an experiment, this group does not receive the treatment.
What is the control group?
This structure connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
The body’s “natural painkillers” are called ___________.
What are endorphins?
The retina contains two types of photoreceptor cells: ___________ and ___________.
What are rods and cones?
Behaviorism emphasized studying only this type of behavior.
What is observable behavior?
A correlation shows a relationship between two variables, but it does NOT prove this.
What is causation?
This small structure in the brain is responsible for regulating hunger and body temperature.
What is the hypothalamus?
The ___________ nervous system prepares the body for fight-or-flight.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This theory of color vision says we have three types of cones sensitive to red, green, and blue light.
What is the trichromatic theory?
This movement in psychology emphasized free will, personal growth, and human potential.
What is humanism?
Research involving human participants must be reviewed and approved by this group.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
This part of the hindbrain is important for balance, coordination, and motor skills.
What is the cerebellum?
The ___________ nervous system calms the body down after stress.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The idea that perception is influenced by expectations, knowledge, and past experiences is called ___________ processing.
What is top-down processing?