Approaches
What approach in psychology would focus on shaping behavior through rewards or through punishments to curb behavior?
Behavioral or Behaviorism
What career field in psychology would focus thoughts, ideas, and mental processes?
Cognitive psychologist
What is a strength of using a survey to gather research data?
It is relatively quick, cheap, and convenient.
This part of the neuron is responsible for sending neurotransmitters messages from the cell body to the terminal.
Axon
This lobe is responsible for decision making, planning ahead, executive functioning skills, etc.
Frontal Lobe
Which psychological approach focuses on the community at large, group behaviors and norms, as well as culture.
Sociocultural
The type of psychologist would likely be involved in gathering eyewitness testimony and be involved in crime scene analysis.
Forensic psychologist
Which research method would be able to tell a researcher a cause and effect relationship?
Experiment
This part of the neuron grabs neurotransmitter messages from the sending neuron.
Dendrites or receptor sites
This lobe is responsible for touch and body position.
Parietal
Which approach in psychology would study a student’s hormones and neurotransmitters to determine if medication would provide a solution?
Biological
This career path in psychology is permitted to prescribe medication and typically has a medical degree.
Psychiatrist
What is a disadvantage of using lab observation in your research study?
It does not show how humans or animals behave in their natural environment.
Surrounding the nucleus of a neuron is the
Soma/Cell body
This part of the brain is responsible for balance, movement, and coordination.
Cerebellum
This psychological approach, made famous by Sigmund Freud, emphasizes the unconscious mind.
Psychodynamic
What career field in psychology would focus on the work with students from early childhood to high school and probably work in specific schools with specific students?
School psychologist
Coffee drinkers tend to perform better on tests than those who do not drink coffee. Because there can be so many variables that influence testing ability and because this wasn't experimented on, we can say these two variables are ____.
The sending neuron pushes the neurotransmitter message to the ____ and then fires the message to the receiving neuron.
terminal branches or buttons
Which part of the brain is located near the hippocampus that aids in creating long-term, emotional memories during a fight-or-flight response?
Amygdala
How would a humanist in psychology study how poor grades relate to a student’s home environment?
They would study whether or not the child's basic needs like food are met at home.
What career in psychology is most closely associated with a focus on creating personality and intelligence tests to measure the internal workings of humans, which could include IQ tests, standardized testing in schools, and tests to measure levels of depression or stress?
Psychometrics
Correlation does not equal _______.
Causation
If this portion of the neuron were to deteriorate, messages could not be sent as quickly and efficiently through the neuron, which would influence a person’s motor movements, speech abilities, and possibly day-to-day functions.
myelin sheath
This part of your brain is responsible for your fight or flight response and for regulating hunger and thirst.
Hypothalamus