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What the heck is this?
Let's Reseach
Getting Personal
Biology aint baloney
Odds and Ends
100
A perspective of psychology focused on how processes function inside of the body and brain
What is the Biological Perspective
100
This is the variable in an experiment that measured by the researcher
What is the dependent variable
100
Accepting personal responsibility for your life and experiences is showing this form of control
What is an internal locus of control
100
The area of the brain that alerts you when you're hungry or thirsty
What is the hypothalamus
100
This man is best known for his work Behaviorism and operant conditioning studies
Who is B.F. Skinner
200
Freud is best known for this perspective. Unconscious desires play a large role here
What is the Psychoanalytic perspective
200
Researching different people in a range of 4 different age groups
What is cross sectional research
200
Inborn and stable aspects of ones personality such as excitability
What is temperament
200
This brain-imaging technique offers the most detailed picture of brain structures
What is an MRI
200
Psychological Personality exam that asks people to create a story based on a picture of a specific scene or figure
What is Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
300
A large focus placed on how people process and store information
What is the cognitive perspective
300
This is the term used to describe a distribution that has a mean higher than the median
What is positively skewed
300
According to Freud, this does the job of working through the demands of both the id and the superego
What is the ego
300
An increase in heart rate or the arousal of sexual organs is a result of activity here
What is the sympathetic (autonomic) nervous system
300
A perspective of psychology focused on how people act when they are around others
What is social psychology
400
This perspective would study how people work towards self-actualization. HINT: think Maslow!
What is Humanist psychology
400
This research method is best for describing cause and effect relationships
What is an experiment
400
A defense mechanism that involves reacting in a way that exhibits the opposite emotions that the person actually feels
What is Reaction Formation
400
The two chemical substances most involved in the action potential of a neurotn
What are sodium and potassium
400
Informed consent and debriefing are two major factors in regards to this essential aspect of research
What is ethics
500
This field of psychology focuses on leadership, job satisfaction, and employee motivation
What is industrial-organizational psychology
500
This strategy of research is used to ensure that the population has the same probability of being chosen in a study
What is random sampling
500
Belief in ones abilities and effectiveness in carrying out tasks
What is self efficacy
500
Damage to this area of the brain would likely lead to issues with decision making
What is the cerebral cortex
500
The 5 traits of the Five Factor Theory of Personality (Big Five)
What are: 1. Openness 2. Conscientiousness 3. Extraversion 4. Agreeableness 5. Neuroticism