Our Biology
The brain and the spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
The study of the mind, body, and behavior.
What is psychology?
Step 1:collect observations
Step 2:develop a hypothesis
Step 3:conduct an experiment to test hypothesis
Step 4:interpret the results of the experiment
Step 5:share the results to the scientific community
What is the scientific method?
My study on quality of diet and its effect on health/immunity has a correlation of -.62.
What is a negatively strong correlation?
This part of the brain is responsible for higher-order cognitive functions.
What is the cerebral cortex?
It is comprised of Dendrites, the Cell body, the Axon, Myelin Sheath, and the Terminal branches of axon.
What is a neuron?
"I see the world exactly as it is!"
What is naive realism?
A testable prediction derived from observations or a theory.
"People who watch TV for 1 hour instead of studying for 1 hour will score lower on their test."
What is an hypothesis?
A well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the world, confirmed through repeated observation and experimentation.
What is a theory?
If you get hit on the back of your head, you will see stars! Which part of the brain is this?
What is the occipital lobe?
The part of your brain that just processed a loud yell from outside your window.
What is the temporal lobe?
You believe strongly in horoscopes and you tend to get along with Leos very easily. In class today, you sat next to a nice and funny girl thinking "she is so cool, I want to be her friend!" Then, after hanging out you find out she is a Leo! This further convinces you that Leos are the coolest horoscope and you love all of them.
What is confirmation bias?
I am conducting a study on how quality of sleep affects mood.
What is "levels of sleep" in this study? (independent or dependent)
What is the independent variable?
This part of the Limbic system regulates body temperature, and regulates drives (the 4 F's).
What is the hypothalamus?
Let's say you and your ex used to have "a song". This song would always be played when you went on a date to Olive Garden.
Now even though you two are broken up, every time you hear this song or you are on your way to Olive Garden, you feel a sad OR angry emotion!
Which part of the brain played a part in this process?
What is the amygdala?
You get to your dorm after a long day of classes and homework. You feel extremely drowsy and ready for sleep.
What are the 'Pons'?
I did so well in my classes this semester, I got all A's and B's!
(In reality, since half of your classes were online, you used quizlet to find the answers to your tests and only spent an 1 hour a week on those classes.)
What is self-serving bias?
I am conducting a study on how quality of sleep affects immunity/health.
I want to make an operational definition for immunity/health. (Phrase the question as the operational definition for mood.)
What is "how many times you get sick a year, how many times I go to urgent care a year, how many times I have headaches, etc"?
You just felt someone poking you in your back.
Which lobe processed this information?
What is the parietal lobe?
I look up to the sky and see a heart shaped cloud after I left my boyfriend's house. "This must mean something!"
What is this called?
What is Apophenia?
(seeing a meaningful pattern within randomness)
A message is being continually sent through all your neurons saying, "that pan was super hot!!!"
What is an excitatory effect?
A "loophole" that defenders of a theory use to protect the theory from falsification.
In class we watched a psychic, Char Margolis, excuse why her "magic" was not working on national TV!
What is the ad hoc immunizing hypothesis?
I am conducting a study on how quality of sleep affects immunity/health. However, the study is showing many of the healthy individuals are also eating very clean like fruits/vegetables every day. The group who is showing less health are not.
What type of issue is my study having?
What is the third variable problem?
The individual who is credited the development of experimental psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Studies that allow researchers to study which human differences are attributed to genetics and environment.
What are twin studies and adoption studies?