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Types of Psychologists
Components of an Experiment
Non-experimental Research Methods
Building a Biocomputer
Drug-Altered Consciousness
100
This psychologist does psychological testing, referrals, emotional and vocational counseling of students.
What is a School Psychologist?
100
A former trial undertaken to prove or disprove a hypothesis about cause and effect.
What is an Experiment?
100
An in-depth focus on all aspects of a single person
What is a Case Study?
100
An individual nerve cell
What is a Neuron?
100
A substance capable of altering attention, memory, judgement, time sense, self-control, mood, or perception
What is a Psychoactive drug?
200
This psychologist investigates human social behavior, including attitudes, conformity, and relationships.
What is a Social Psychologist.
200
The experimenter chooses the values that component takes.
What is an Independent Variable?
200
Observing behavior as it unfolds in natural settings
What is Naturalistic Observation?
200
Any chemical released by a neuron that alters activity on other neurons
What is a Neurotransmitter?
200
A stimulant that promotes alertness, but can lead to insomnia or heart arrhythmia
What is Caffeine?
300
This psychologist studies human thinking and information processing abilities.
What is a Cognitive Psychologist?
300
The component that is affected when a value is purposely changed.
What is a Dependent Variable?
300
A non-experimental study designed to measure the degree of relationship (if any) between 2 or more events, measures, or variables
What is a Correlational Study?
300
The system of nerves that links the spinal cord with the body and sense organs
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
300
A sedative that can increase sociability, but at the expense of the liver
What is Alcohol?
400
This psychologist conducts research on infant, child, adolescent, and adult development.
What is a Developmental Psychologist?
400
Changes in participants' behavior caused by the unintended influence of a researcher's actions.
What is Researcher Bias?
400
A public polling technique used to answer psychological questions
What is a Survey?
400
The 3 main parts of a neuron
What are Dendrites, the Soma, and the Axon?
400
A common narcotic given to patients with a severe pain problem, but can lead to addiction if not regulated
What is Morphine?
500
This psychologist promotes community-wide mental health through research, prevention, education, and consultation.
What is a Community Psychologist?
500
An arrangement in which participants remain unaware of whether they are in the experimental group or the control group.
What is a Single-blind Experiment?
500
Researchers take advantage of natural clinical trials and investigate rare or unusual problems or events
What is the Clinical Observation
500
A fatty layer coating some axons
What is Myelin?
500
A stimulant that comes in a variety of forms, but is known to cause oral, throat, and lung cancer
What is Tobacco (nicotine)?