History of & Contemporary Psychology
Psychology's parents.
What are Philosophy & Physiology?
The second step of the scientific method.
What is formulating hypotheses & predictions?
The manipulated variable
What is the Independent Variable?
The two major divisions of the nervous system.
What are the Central & Peripheral Nervous Systems?
Part of the neuron specialized to receive information.
What are the dendrites?
The three divisions of the brain.
What are the forebrain, midbrain & hindbrain?
Where Psychology went through adolescence
What is America/North America?
Science is not defined by "what" it investigates but by _____ it investigates.
What is "how"?
The group that does not receive the manipulated variable
What is the Control Group?
The brain's special capacity for change.
What is plasticity?
The myelin sheath is made up of these cells.
What are glial cells or fat cells?
Cerebral cortex lobes and location in the lobes of the motor cortex.
What is at the rear of the frontal lobes?
The approach to psychology that explains behavior with ideas such as adaptation, reproduction & natural selection
What is the evolutionary approach?
Name the step of the scientific method where data is collected and analyzed?
What is the third step = testing through empirical research?
Why correlation cannot equal causation.
What is the "third variable problem"?
This nervous system arouses the body in times of need
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
The brief wave of electrical charge that sweeps down the axon.
What is an action potential?
Relays information between the right & left hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
Method Wundt used to collect data
What is introspection?
The name of the scientific method step that NEVER ends.
What is the fifth step = evaluating conclusions?
A type of experiment without random assignment.
What is a quasi-experiment?
Interconnected groups of nerve cells that integrate sensory input & motor output.
What is a neural network?
Most drugs that influence behavior do so by interfering with the work of
What are neurotransmitters?
Region of the cerebral cortex that is the site of the highest intellectual functions.
What are the association cortexes or association areas?
The one approach/perspective that all 7 approaches of contemporary psychology fall under.
What is the biopsychosocial approach?
Scientific theories MUST be
What is falsifiable?
A research sample must be ___________ for the results of the research to be able to be applied to a larger group of people.
What is representative?
One-way streets/nerves that carries information away from or out of the brain & spinal cord.
What are efferent nerves or motor nerves?
"Neurotransmitters fit into receptor sites like ________ [3-4 words]"
What is "keys in keyholes" or "keys into a lock" or "puzzle pieces" or some semblance of this?
The cerebral cortex is very ________, enlarging its surface area.
What is convoluted or wrinkled?