Early Psychology
Psych and the Scientific Method
Nerves and the Brain
Vision and Hearing
Smell, Taste, Touch, and Balance
100
This psychological perspective would be best to help you train your dog to do tricks using rewards and punishments
What is Behaviorism
100
This type of observation occurs in the "real world," with subjects in their natural setting
What is Naturalistic Observation
100
These two organs make up the Central Nervous System (both required for points)
What are the Brain and Spinal Cord
100
This is the biological term for "hearing"
What is Audition?
100
Around 80% of what we define as "taste" comes from this related sense
What is Smell/Olfaction
200
This type of psychologist has an MD and can write prescriptions
What is a psychiatrist
200
In designing an experiment, what do we call the prediction of behavior that describes the possible outcome of the experiment.
What is a hypothesis
200
Part of the autonomic nervous system that returns the body to homeostasis after the sympathetic nervous system has activated the fight or flight response
What is the parasympathetic Nervous System
200
The 3 primary colors of light, according to the Trichromatic theory of color vision (All 3 required for credit)
What are Red, Green, and Blue
200
This is the largest organ in the human body, according to total area
What is the skin?
300
This perspective is focused on how people interact and influence each other.
What is Social Psychology or Sociocultural perspective
300
In an experiment, this is the variable that the experimenter manipulates
What is the Independent Variable
300
These are chemical messengers released and absorbed across the synaptic cleft/gap
What are neurotransmitters
300
Only one eye is needed to use these perceptual cues.
What are Monocular Cues
300
Loss of muscular coordination often results from damage to this brain structure
What is the Cerebellum
400
This is the psychological perspective that focuses on methods of thinking and problem solving
What is the cognitive perspective
400
This is a study that looks at an individual person or situation in depth.
What is Case Study?
400
These are the chemicals produced by the endocrine system
What are hormones
400
This is the term used to describe how despite appearing larger or smaller in our vision, objects remain a constant size
What is Perceptual Constancy
400
People with this mental disorder have a high likelihood of dysfunctions in their sense of smell
What is Schizophrenia
500
This Austrian is the founder of Psychoanalysis, and the dynamic perspective
Who is Sigmund Freud
500
The group in an experiment that is not directly manipulated by the experimenters or independent variable
What is a control group?
500
The lobe of the brain where the motor cortex is found
What is the Frontal lobe
500
The amplitude of a light wave is used to determine this aspect of color
What is Brightness
500
This is the number of unique scents the human nose can detect
What is 1,000,000,000