A psychologist who believes that symptoms can be attributed to genetics and the structure of the brain practices this model of Psychology.
What is biological/biomedical psychology?
100
A research method which utilizes a control group and an experimental group is known by this name.
What is an experiment?
100
This part of the brain stem controls your breathing, reflexes, and heart rate.
What is the medulla oblongata?
100
The pitch of a tone is determined by this.
What is its frequency?
100
This sleep disorder causes people to fall asleep randomly and uncontrollably.
What is narcolepsy?
200
This type of psychologist would design prevention programs for potential problems before those problems occur.
What is a community psychologist?
200
In order for a psychologist to be able to release a client's test scores, he/she has to have this.
What is written consent from the client?
200
This body system regulates hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
200
Balance is influenced by this/these.
What are semicircular canals?
200
The biological clock that regulates sleep and other body processes.
What is the circadian rhythm?
300
John B. Watson is best known as the founder of this branch of psychology.
What is behaviorism?
300
True or False: A study can be regarded as scientific only if its conclusions can be verified or refuted by subsequent studies.
True!
300
Brain scans of people with amnesia will most likely show damage in this area.
What is the hippocampus?
300
As you watch a friend walk away from you, your retinal image of your friend gets smaller. Despite this, you do not perceive him to be shrinking. This is an example of this phenomenon.
What is size constancy?
300
Sleep spindles occur in this stage of sleep.
What is Stage 2?
400
Sigmund Freud was the father of this branch of Psychology.
What is psychoanalytic?
400
True or False: In order to yield information that is generalizable to the population from which it was drawn, a sample must be representative of the population.
True!
400
Neurotransmitters are typically stored in this part of a neuron.
What are the terminal buttons?
400
True or False: David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel’s research on responses of the brain to visual stimuli showed that the retinal image must be upside down to be recognized.
False!
400
Amphetamines would be a good prescription for which sleep disorder?
What is narcolepsy?
500
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow are founders of this branch of psychology.
What is humanistic psychology?
500
The correlation between two measures obtained on a group of individuals is graphically represented in this way.
What is a scatterplot?
500
Brain damage that leaves a person capable of understanding speech but with an impaired ability to produce speech most likely indicates injury in this area.
What is Broca's area?
500
Photoreceptors relay visual information to the brain through these cells.
What are bipolar and ganglion cells?
500
Barbiturates are usually prescribed for this sleep disorder.