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Neurons
Research Methods
Perspectives in Psychology
The Brain
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100
This structure of the neuron is responsible for transmitting information to a neighboring neuron.
What is the axon?
100
This is the only research method that can determine cause and effect.
What is an experiment?
100
This perspective focuses on how bodily events and functions relate to behavior, thoughts, and feelings.
What is the biological perspective?
100
This structure in the brainstem is involved with regulating sleep and waking.
What is the pons?
100
When deception is used in research, this MUST be done with participants after their participation is completed.
What is debriefing?
200
These structures of neurons are responsible for receiving information from senses or other neurons.
What are dendrites?
200
This is the term for a specific description and/or measurement of a variable in a research study.
What is an operational definition?
200
This perspective focuses on how variables in a person's unconscious affects behavior and personality.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
200
This brain structure acts as a "switchboard" for all sensory information, except the sense of smell.
What is the thalamus?
200
This professional completed medical school and generally takes a biological/medical perspective to diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
What is a psychiatrist?
300
This is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the nervous system.
What is GABA?
300
When an experimenter only pays attention to observations that support his hypothesis, he is engaging in this thinking research pitfall:
What is the confirmation bias?
300
This perspective focuses on how conditioning and environment shape and affect behavior.
What is the learning perspective?
300
This brain structure controls the pituitary gland, and is responsible for regulating survival mechanisms.
What is the hypothalamus?
300
This professional provides counseling or psychotherapy, completed a 1 or 2-year clinical master's program, but is not a doctor.
What is a licensed clinical social worker?
400
This fatty substance, made mainly of glial cells, covers the axon and provides insulation and protection for the neuron.
What is myelin?
400
This variable is manipulated by the researcher in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
400
This perspective focuses on how social groups and culture affect behavior.
What is the sociocultural perspective?
400
This lobe of the cortex is responsible for processing auditory information.
What is the temporal lobe?
400
This person provides psychotherapy or counseling, but might not even have a degree in either psychology, social work, or counseling.
What is a psychotherapist?
500
This is the space between neurons.
What is the synaptic cleft?
500
In an experiment, the participants in this condition do NOT receive the independent variable.
What is the control condition?
500
This perspective examines thinking, language, decision making, moral development, and other higher-order human functions.
What is the cognitive perspective?
500
This bundle of nerve fibers connects the left and right hemispheres of the cerebrum.
What is the corpus callosum?
500
This type of research examines the findings of several studies over a number of years on a specific research question.
What is a meta-analysis?