History & Approaches
Who is considered the father of psychology?
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
What type of study observes behavior without manipulating variables?
What is naturalistic observation?
What cell transmits information in the nervous system?
What is a neuron?
What imaging technique uses magnetic fields to see brain structure?
What is MRI?
What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes?
What is psychology?
What approach focuses on observable behavior?
What is behaviorism?
What is the variable that is manipulated in an experiment?
What is the independent variable?
What part of the neuron receives messages?
What is the dendrite?
What part of the brain is responsible for higher thinking and reasoning?
What is the cerebral cortex?
What is a hypothesis?
A testable prediction?
Which school of psychology emphasized the study of consciousness and introspection?
What is structuralism?
What is a group in an experiment that does not receive the treatment?
What is the control group?
What chemical messengers cross the synapse?
What are neurotransmitters?
What hemisphere is typically responsible for language?
What is the left hemisphere?
When participants improve because they believe they received treatment.
What is the placebo effect?
Who developed psychoanalysis?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
When neither participants nor experimenters know who is receiving the treatment.
What is a double-blind procedure?
Which part of the brain controls breathing and heartbeat?
What is the brainstem?
What lobe processes visual information?
What is the occipital lobe?
Defining variables in measurable terms.
What is operational definition?
What approach emphasizes human growth and potential?
What is humanistic psychology?
What is the measure of how two variables move together?
What is correlation?
What is the division of the nervous system that controls voluntary movements?
What is the somatic nervous system?
What neurotransmitter is involved in movement and reward?
What is dopamine?
A group that accurately reflects the population.
What is a representative sample?