Intro to Psychology
This is the study of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
This type of experiment takes place in a controlled environment.
What is a laboratory experiment?
This is a relationship between variables where their values increase or decrease together.
What is a positive correlation?
This lobe in the brain controls your vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
This gland in the brain secretes a growth hormone.
What is the pituitary gland?
This is an observable action.
What is behavior?
This takes place in a natural environment; there may be confounding variables.
What is a field experiment?
The association or link between two variables.
What is correlation?
This is the part of the brain associated with balance and movement.
What is the cerebellum?
This is the part of the brain that controls heart rate, digestion, sleep, and swallowing.
What is the medulla oblongata?
This is the mental processes we perform with our minds.
What is cognition?
This is what is manipulated in the experiment.
What is an independent variable?
This is the relationship between two variables where when one of their values increases, the other decreases.
What is negative correlation?
This is the lobe in your brain that controls speech, problem solving, emotions, planning, and decision making.
What is the frontal lobe?
These join the hemispheres of the cerebellum.
What are pons?
This is something that happens a lot without an obvious explanation.
What is a phenomenon?
This is what is being measured in the experiment; the effect of the experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
This is where there is a correlation between two variables, but it is uncertain which variable is influencing which.
What is bidirectional ambiguity?
This lobe in the brain is associated with taste, touch, and movement.
What is the parietal lobe?
This is the part of the brain associated with pleasure and pain. It secretes hormones like ocytocin. It drives hunger and thirst and regulates temperature.
What is the hypothalamus?
This is evidence that has been gathered using observation or experimentation.
What is empirical evidence?
This is a variable that is not measured or manipulated but should be controlled.
What is an extraneous variable?
This is a variable which influenced the dependent variable and the results of a study.
What is a confounding variable?
This lobe is associated with hearing, memory, and speech.
What is the temporal lobe?
This part of the brain contains the medulla oblongata and pons.
What is the brainstem?