The Story of Psychology
This is the psychologist responsible for creating the first ever psychological laboratory. He is also known as the father of experimental psychology.
Wilhelm Wundt
The process we use to ask questions about the world and then test our predictions for an outcome.
Scientific Method (or scientific process)
The summary at the beginning of a scholarly journal article. It exists ahead of the literature review and is used to assess if the article is relevant to what you are studying.
Abstract
This is the oldest and most inner system of the brain. It is responsible for the most basic, involuntary functions of the body (ie breathing, heartbeat).
Brain Stem
This is our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment.
Consciousness
This famous, Austrian psychiatrist was concerned with unconscious processes. He is better known as the father of psychoanalysis.
Sigmund Freud
A research design that looks to uncover cause and effect between variables.
Experimental Design (or experiment, experimentation)
This is the format in which US-based, scholarly, psychological articles are written.
American Psychological Association Format (or APA format)
These two structures form the entire central nervous system (must get both for points).
Brain and Spinal Cord
This occurs in response to the long-term use of a substance where more of the substance is needed in order to acquire the desired effect of the substance.
Tolerance
Developed by Tichener, this school of thought believed that individual's subjective experiences were most important.
Structuralism
A research design that looks at the naturally occurring relationship between two variables.
Correlational Design (correlation)
This is the introduction section of a journal article. It gives the background information regarding related research and data that already exists on a topic and forms the basis for the presented study.
Literature Review
This is the name of the nerve cells that make up the human body. The communicate with one another using neurotransmitters.
Neurons
This is our internal, 24-hour clock that helps to regular our biological rhythms.
Circadian Rhythm
Field of psychology that is concerned with natural selection traits and the promotion of the survival of a species
Evolutionary Psychology
A third variable (other than the independent variable) that may have caused unwanted change in the dependent variable.
Confounding Variable (or confound)
This is the place in a scholarly journal article to most likely locate the hypothesis.
At the end of the literature review (or immediately prior to the methodology; or between the lit review and methodology)
The structure that is part of the limbic system that is responsible for intense emotions.
Amygdala
This is the naturally occurring chemical produced in the brain that when we are exposed to natural light ceases production to minimize sleepiness.
Melatonin
This is the scientific study of observable behavior in the absence of psychological processes.
Behaviorism (or Behavioral Psychology)
An experimental study where neither the researchers nor the participants know to which group they are assigned (control group or experimental group).
Double Blind Experiment
The name of the fancy type of magazine where scholarly articles are published for public viewing. They are often released on a timed bases (i.e. quarterly, or semi annually).
Periodical
This gland deep in the brain is responsible for managing the body's hormonal system.
Pituitary Gland
This is a type of selective attention that explains failure to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.
Inattentional Blindness