Modern Psychology
Story of Psychology
Research Methods
Tools of Discovery
The Nervous System
100
The scientific study of mind and behavior
What is Psychology
100
The father of modern psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
100
Common sense or "knowledge from within"
What is intuition
100
An old method of determining a person's personality based on measuring bumps on the head
What is phrenology
100
This system of the brain contains the brain and the spinal cord
What is central nervous system
200
The field of psychology that studies change and continuity throughout the lifespan, from birth to death
What is developmental psychology
200
Careful, systematic, self-observation of one’s own conscious experience
What is introspection
200
The tendency to believe, after learning the outcome, that we could have predicted it
What is Hindsight bias or the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon
200
A technique that temporarily enhances or depresses activity in a specific area of the brain
What is Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
200
A bundle of axons
What is a nerve
300
Observable or measurable activities of living things
What is behavior
300
The scraping, cutting, or drilling of skulls intended to drive off evil spirits
What is trephination
300
A descriptive method of research that involves making systematic observations in a real-world setting
What is naturalistic observation
300
This device uses blood flow and oxygen consumption to measure activity in the brain
What is functional MRI
300
A part of the nervous system that controls the involuntary muscles
What is autonomic nervous system
400
The first woman president of the APA
Who is Mary W. Calkins
400
The belief that the mind must be broken down into parts in order to study and analyze consciousness
What is structuralism
400
The investigator manipulates a variable under controlled conditions and observes changes in a second variable as a result of the manipulation
What is the experimental method
400
This device uses a radioactive form of glucose to measure brain activity
What is pet scan
400
A division of the autonomic nervous system that controls the fight or flight response
What is sympathetic division
500
The field of psychology that studies nonhuman animal behavior in controlled settings
What is Experimental psychology
500
Freud's experiences with Bertha Pappenheim led to the creation of this technique
What is psychoanalysis
500
The double-blind procedure is used to overcome this error in experimental methods
What is experimenter bias
500
This device provides a better image of the structure of the brain but is very expensive to conduct
What is MRI
500
A part of the nervous system that carries information from the skin, muscles, and joints to the CNS and from the CNS to the muscles
What is somatic nervous system
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