Introduction to Science of Psychology
This perspective stated that the mind was based on individual parts/components rather than what it does. Also, it was one of the earliest perspectives in psychology.
This theory states the opposite of this perspective.
What is structuralism?
What is gestalt theory?
" Criminals will commit crimes when stress is high"
" Test scores will be affected by caffeine intake"
These are know as this in psychological research.
What are hypotheses?
The part of the peripheral nervous system that deals with bringing body back to homeostasis.
What is parasympathetic nervous system?
This stage of sleep occurs when sleep spindles show up.
What is stage 2?
High doses of this classification of drug can cause hallucinations and paranoia.
What are stimulants?
A child avoids eating grapes after choking on one. This behavior is best understood by this psychological perspective.
Name perspective and theorist
What is behaviorism- classical conditioning?
Who is John Watson/Ivan Pavlov?
A research hypothesis can be found true but also this.
What is falsifiable?
This side of brain houses this area that is responsible for speech production.
What is left side of the brain?
What is Broca's area?
Traveling on a plane to another time zone will affect this.
What is sleep/wake cycle in your circadian rhythm?
When variables move in opposite directions in the outcome of a research study, it is called this.
What is a negative correlation?
This theory includes a component that is applied in therapy. It states a therapist accepts a person for who they are, regardless of what they did or what they look like.
Name the theory and component
What is humanism?
What is unconditional positive regard?
Jordan examines whether eating sugar free candy influences behavior.
His study is this type of research design.
What is a correlation?
This threshold has to be met before an action potential can occur.
What is -55 mV?
List the 3 cognitive benefits of getting enough sleep.
What are creative thinking, language learning, and inferential judgments?
The name for variables in an experiment.
What are independent variable and dependent variable?
According to this personality trait model, one who always does what they say they are going to do, always on time and is reliable, is known to have this.
Name model and trait.
What is Five Factor Model?
What is high on conscientiousness?
Janie observes children at play for her research study examining playground behavior among children. Janie also has a child who does similar behaviors as the children on the playground.
This may be an issue in the study.
What is observer bias?
A deficit of this neurotransmitter has been found in people with anxiety.
What is GABA?
This is known as somnambulism
What is sleep walking?
This organization represents psychologists in U.S.
What is the American Psychological Association?
This is the main difference between a psychologist and psychiatrist.
What is psychiatrist can prescribe medication?
Dr. Fred wants to examine the effects of nicotine on anger outbursts.
Dr. Fred states his variable anger outbursts is measured by the number of yells a person makes. Dr. Fred did this to his variable.
What is operationally define the variable?
This part of the brain plays a role in coordination and balance
What is cerebellum?
This classification of drug can cause decreased respiratory function and death.
What are depressants and opioids?
When new synapses develop or genesis of new neurons occur, It is know as this.
What is neuroplasticity?
This is the theoretical perspective in psychology that developed due to the lack of "scientific rigor" involved in the field at that time.
What is behaviorism?
This research outcome -
" Test scores increase among students, the more cups of coffee they drink."
-is known as this type.
Name the design and outcome type.
What is correlation?
What is positive correlation?
The structure of the axon includes...
What are myelin sheath, terminal buttons, synaptic vesicles, and nodes of Ranvier?
These brain waves have the highest frequency and lowest amplitude compared to these brain waves that have the lowest frequency and highest amplitude.
What are beta waves and what are delta waves?
This is an extended research study which usually includes original research and is required for students to complete before degree is conferred.
What is a thesis (master's degree) or a dissertation (doctoral degree) ?
Name of the first woman to earn a doctorate in psychology.
Who is Margaret Floy Washburn?
A whole pie versus a piece of pie is similar to these when conducting research.
What are population and sample?
This is the polarization process (membrane potential) when action potential occurs (before, during, after)
What is resting potential (-70mV).
When activated it meets the threshold of excitation (-55mV), then repolarization, ending with hyperpolarization (ex: -75mV)
This is the difference between physical dependence and psychological dependence.
What is physical dependence includes physical dependence on the drug (withdrawal) while psychological dependence of drug due to emotional need, usually to relieve stress?
A local psychologist is planning to conduct a research study on the effect student's current eating habits and mood.
She will be using questionnaires to gather her data which she develops herself.
In order for her questionnaire to be scientifically rigor, she does a practice run with a sample of students, then chooses a different sample of students to see if the findings are similar.
The researcher is doing this to her questionnaire using this particular method ( 2 answers)
What is reliability and test-retest reliability?
Reliability- the measures/ outcomes produce similar results
A waiter attended to a table of psychologists but the psychologists were not ready to order. The waiter stated he would return to get their order but never came back.
One of the psychologists stated the waiter was avoiding their table and purposely ignored their calls for service because he was reminded of teachers being impatient with him and ignoring his own requests.
This psychologist comes from this theoretical background.
What is psychoanalytical?
"Examining motivation on educational attainment among female students with depression in college" was an experiment designed by health psychologists at the local college health center.
Name the independent variable
Name the dependent variable
This is how they were operationalized.
This is this the type of design.
Students having more than 1 diagnosis (dual-diagnosis) would need this in order to avoid the effects of this.
What is motivation - IV?
What is educational attainment- DV?
What are ____________(operationalize)
What is quasi-experiment?
What is controlled and confounding variable?
The story of Phineas Gage helped scientists further understand functions of the brain after Mr. Gage experienced damage to these 2 sections of the brain when an iron rod thrust through it- he experienced loss of impulse control and emotional dysregulation.
What are the frontal lobe and limbic system?
All classification of psychoactive substances are both psychologically dependent and physically dependent except this one.
What are hallucinogens?
(Not physically dependent)
A researcher is examining student shopping habits and age of first job.The researcher is creating her own questionnaire and includes questions such as where shopping occurs, what they buy, colors of clothing chosen, types of foods they like and whether they ride their bike or go skating.
This issue was found in the questions used for measuring shopping habits.
What is validity?
Validity- measuring the variable it is supposed to measure.