Biopsychology
How many lobes of the brain are there?
4
This is the amount of sleep recommended to people aged 18-25.
7-9 hours
This is the name of a professional organization representing psychologists in the U.S.
The ________ is controlled by the experimenter in a study.
Independent variable
What is a group of crows called?
A murder
Phineas Gage had damage to which of his brain lobes?
Frontal lobe
A _________ is a drug that tends to suppress the activity of the central nervous system
Depressant
This individual is known as the father of psychology
Whilhelm Wundt
The correlation coefficient indicates the weakest relationship when ________.
It is closest to 0
In bowling, three strikes in a row is called?
A Turkey
This lobe of the brain is associated with hearing, memory, emotion, and some aspects of language.
Temporal Lobe
____________ cycles occur roughly once every 24 hours.
Circadian
________ is most well-known for proposing his hierarchy of needs.
Abraham Maslow
A ________ is a testable prediction about how the world will behave if our idea is correct
Hypothesis
Which Album won a grammy for Album of the Year?
Cowboy Carter
This phrase refers to the debate about how much a person's characteristics are influenced by genetics or by their life experiences.
Gene-environment interaction --- Nature v. Nurture
This stage of sleep is characterized by brain waves similar to those during wakefulness and is known as the stage when we dream
Rapid-Eye Movement (REM)
This theory of psychology, is most well known for being pioneered by Sigmund Freud, and focuses on the role of a person's unconscious.
Psychoanalytic theory
_________ refers to the ability to apply the findings of a particular research project to larger segments of society.
Generalizability/Generalizing
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie (1903)
What is the name of a cell that sends messages throughout the body using electrical and chemical signals?
Neuron
According to Freud, this is what we call the hidden meaning of a dream
Latent content
Before psychology became a recognized academic discipline, matters of the mind were undertaken by those in ________.
Philosophy
The correlation between cheese consumption and # of people who have died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets is called this.
Illusory or Spurious
Who won the first season of American Idol?
Kelly Clarkson