This is the contemporary definition of psychology.
What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes?
100
This type of psychology believes that most women prefer tall and physically strong partners because this preference enhanced the survival of our ancestors' genes.
What is evolutionary psychology?
100
This is best described as a prediction.
What is a hypothesis?
100
This method is most appropriate for investigating the relationship between the religious beliefs of Americans and their attitudes toward abortion.
What is the survey method?
100
This is a way to scientists study the brain.
What is: PET, EEG, MRI, fMRI, CAT/CT, or lesions?
200
He founded the first psychology lab in Germany in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
200
This is most emphasized by the behavioral perspective.
What is observable responses (or behavior).
200
An example of this is that parents and children have similar levels of intelligence largely because they share common genes.
What is a theory?
200
To understand the unusual behavior of an adult client, a clinical psychologist carefully investigates the client's current life situation and his physical, social-cultural, and educational history. This is this kind of research.
What is the case study?
200
This is the function of dendrites.
What is to receive incoming signals from other neurons?
300
Arguments as to whether psychological differences between men and women result from biological or social influences most clearly involves the debate over this issue.
What is nature vs. nurture.
300
This perspective would say that the low incidence of alcohol dependence among citizens of a small Asian country can be attributed to strong fundamentalist religious influences in that region.
What is the social-cultural perspective?
300
This technique involves repeating the essence of an earlier research study with different participants and in different circumstances.
What is replication?
300
This kind of research is being used when one carefully observes and records the behaviors of children in their classrooms in order to track the development of their social and intellectual skills.
What is naturalistic observation?
300
This is the part of the brain that is damaged when one has difficulty keeping balance after receiving a blow to the back of the head.
What is the cerebellum?
400
Humanistic Psychology was pioneered by these two psychologists.
Who are Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow?
400
This type of psychology develops tests to accurately identify the most qualified job applicants in a large manufacturing firm.
What is industrial-organizational psychology?
400
The relationship between listening to Drake and intelligence is +.9. This positive correlation describes this.
What is that the more Drake you listen to the smarter you are OR the less Drake you listen to the less intelligent you are?
400
A researcher uses this type of research if they want to know if gender causes a difference in ACT score.
What is quasi-experimental method?
400
This is the part of your brain that, if destroyed, would immediately threaten your life.
What is the medulla?
500
He is the psychologist who would be most likely to emphasize the role of the unconscious in affecting behavior.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
500
This psychology might study the systematic changes in intelligence associated with aging.
What is developmental psychology?
500
It is hypothesized that students in a classroom seating of 30 will get higher course grades than students seated in an auditorium seating 300. Classroom size has been clearly defined. This is known as _________.
What is an operational definition?
500
A researcher studies the effects of watching cartoons on intelligence. They randomly select 100 participants from Uplift. Half of the participants watch SpongeBob for an hour a day and half read for an hour a day. The researcher then gives them an IQ test. He then publishes a report that says watching TV decreases intelligence in all students in America.
What is the IV?
What is the DV?
What is a confounding variable?
What is watching TV or not?
What is intelligence?
What is having an unrepresentative population (i.e. using only Uplift students) or having some students read (maybe reading increases intelligence)?
500
This is the part of the limbic system that plays an essential role in the processing of new memories.