Mind Games
This organ is responsible for thoughts, emotions, memory, and behavior.
What is the brain?
This mental health professional assesses and treats emotional and behavioral problems but usually cannot prescribe medication.
What is a psychologist?
An NCCU student who needs confidential support for stress, anxiety, or another personal concern can visit this campus resource.
What is the Counseling Center?
A testable prediction about the expected outcome of a study.
What is a hypothesis?
This document summarizes your education, work experience, skills, and accomplishments when applying for jobs or internships.
This neurotransmitter is connected to motivation, pleasure, and the brain’s reward system.
What is dopamine?
This medical doctor can diagnose mental disorders and prescribe medication.
What is a psychiatrist?
This NCCU resource helps students improve papers, presentations, and public-speaking assignments.
What is the Writing and Speaking Studio?
This section of a scholarly article briefly summarizes the study’s purpose, methods, and major findings.
What is the abstract?
This professional social media platform allows students to display their experience and connect with employers.
What is LinkedIn?
In an experiment, this is the variable researchers measure to determine the outcome.
What is the dependent variable?
This professional studies behavior in the workplace and helps improve hiring, training, and employee performance.
What is an industrial-organizational psychologist?
Students looking for help with résumés, internships, interviews, or finding a job can visit this NCCU office.
What is the Career and Professional Development Center?
A researcher studying all college students only surveys members of the Psychology Club, creating this problem with the sample.
What is sampling bias?
This short introduction explains who you are, what you study, and what opportunities you are seeking.
What is an elevator pitch?
The debate over whether genetics or environment has a greater influence on behavior.
What is nature versus nurture?
This professional applies psychology to criminal investigations, court cases, and the legal system.
What is a forensic psychologist?
This NCCU office provides academic accommodations and support for students with documented disabilities.
What is the Student Accessibility Center?
Before joining a study, participants must learn its purpose, procedures, possible risks, and their right to withdraw.
What is informed consent?
This person provides guidance, shares experience, and helps you grow academically or professionally.
What is a mentor?
This psychological approach focuses on how unconscious thoughts and childhood experiences influence behavior.
What is the psychodynamic approach?
This professional studies how brain injuries, diseases, and neurological conditions affect thinking, emotions, and behavior.
What is a neuropsychologist?
An NCCU student experiencing food insecurity can receive food and basic-needs assistance through this campus resource.
What is the NCCU Campus Pantry?
Researchers must weigh the possible harm of a study against the knowledge or benefits it may produce through this ethical process.
What is a risk-benefit analysis?
Graduate programs, scholarships, and internships may request this document from a professor who can describe your abilities and character.
What is a letter of recommendation?