Unit 1
This type of theorist would study the impact of learning on behavior and what can improve learning.
Behaviorist
This is the variable being measured.
Dependent variable
List one fact about cerebral hemispheres.
Each has specialized functions.
They work together to do everyday tasks.
Adjusting to a certain smell or loud noise is an example of what?
Sensory adaptation
This type of theorist would study the unconscious and behaviors such as repression.
Psychoanalytic/dynamic
This is a type of study performed to study individual characteristics/rare cases.
Case studies
This part of the brain is responsible for visual processing.
Occipital lobe
Smelling a drop of perfume throughout a three-bedroom apartment is an example of what?
Absolute threshold
List one of the three earliest approaches used to study behavior.
Psychoanalytic/dynamic
Behaviorist
Humanistic
This is what a researcher must do if deception is involved.
Debriefing
List one of the neurotransmitters and for what it is responsible
Serotonin - mood/emotions
Acetylcholine - memory/gross movement
Dopamine - fine movement/reward/pleasure
Endorphins - pain relievers
Norepinephrine, epinephrine, GABA, glutamate, oxytocin
Color blindness is a deficiency in what?
Cones
What career field in psychology would deal with the workplace?
Industrial-organizational
These can be reduced through random assignment.
Confounding variables
This part of the brain processes emotions and responds accordingly.
amygdala
This theory discusses afterimages as an effect of color vision.
Opponent-process theory
Name one of the two main humanistic theorists.
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers
This type of research can show cause and effect.
Which technique uses radioactive glucose to examine metabolic activity?
PET scan
What helps in making judgments about the distance of objects?
depth perception