The Seven Perspectives
Experiments and Ethics
Group Dynamics
Theories of Self
Neuroscience in Practice
100
This perspective focuses on unconscious conflicts and the influence of early childhood experiences.
Psychodynamic perspective
100
In an experiment, this is the factor manipulated by the researcher.
What is Independent variable
100
The term for when individuals lose their self-awareness and self-restraint when immersed in a large group.
What is Deindividuation ?
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the belief in one's own ability to succeed in specific situations or tasks.
What is self-efficacy?
100
The brain structure that acts as a regulatory center for basic drives like hunger, thirst, and body temperature.
What is the hypothalamus?
200
This viewpoint emphasizes human potential, free will, and the drive toward self-actualization.
Humanistic perspective
200
After an experiment, this is the required process of informing participants of the study's true nature and purpose.
What is Debriefing ?
200
This is the tendency for people to exert less effort when working in a group than when working alone
What is Social loafing ?
200
The famous personality assessment that classifies individuals across five dimensions, including Conscientiousness and Extraversion.
What is the Big Five (or trait personality inventory)?
200
This disease results from the demyelination of the axon, disrupting nerve signal transmission.
What is multiple sclerosis?
300
When studying a behavior, this perspective seeks the roots of the behavior in the brain, genes, and chemical messengers.
Biological approach
300
A requirement that all participants be aware of the risks and sign permission to proceed with the research.
What is Informed consent ?
300
This bias is the discomfort felt when a person's behavior contradicts their attitudes or beliefs.
What is Cognitive dissonance ?
300
A person with an external version of this believes that luck or outside forces control their destiny.
What is Locus of control ?
300
The primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, which helps calm neural activity.
What is GABA?
400
If a researcher attributes a student's lack of motivation to their belief that they are not smart enough, they are likely applying this perspective.
Cognitive perspective
400
This research design error is graphically depicted by a scatterplot showing a strong relationship, but cannot be used to determine cause-and-effect.
What is Correlation ?
400
This classic study demonstrated how group pressure and an authority figure could lead participants to deliver what they believed were harmful electric shocks.
What is Stanley Milgram shock experiment on obedience ?
400
When a student explains their 'A' on a test as due to their intelligence, but their 'F' as due to the teacher's unfair grading, they are exhibiting this cognitive distortion.
What is Self-serving bias ?
400
These natural opioid neurotransmitters are most famously released during strenuous exercise, leading to a temporary feeling of well-being and reduced pain, but you can get the same result from an injection of morphine.
What is endorphin?
500
Compared to a psychologist using the cognitive perspective who would blame a fear of spiders on the faulty thought patterns about spiders, a psychologist operating under this perspective would attribute a fear of spiders to a learned association.
What is the behavioral approach?
500
A psychologist who interprets all experimental outcomes as support for her theory, while ignoring contradictory evidence, is demonstrating this bias.
What is Confirmation bias?
500
The difference between social loafing and the opposite effect, where the presence of others actually increases performance on a simple task.
What is Social facilitation ?
500
The theory that a person's personality arises from the constant interaction and influence of their thoughts, behaviors, and environment.
What is Reciprocal determinism ?
500
If a patient has difficulty with balance, posture, and coordinating voluntary movements like walking a straight line, it indicates damage to this "little brain" structure.
What is the cerebellum?