Before psychology existed as a science, it was this field of study that pondered questions about human nature
What is Philosophy?
100
This is a psychologist who works with students
What is a school psychologist?
100
This is the perspective of a research scientist who studies inherited traits and behavioral patterns.
What is behavioral genetics?
100
This is the variable that is manipulated by the researcher.
What is the independent variable?
100
This is the kind of bias that occurs when one discards evidence because it doesn't fit an already deeply help belief.
What is confirmation bias?
200
This German physiologist opened the 1st psychology laboratory in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
200
This is a psychologist who works with athletes to help them optimize their performance.
What is a sports psychologist?
200
This perspective involves a focus on stimulus - response patterns.
What is the behaviorist perspective?
200
This is the variable that is measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
200
This is probably the most important factor to consider when recruiting subjects to participate in a survey.
What is random selection?
300
This psychologist created a form of therapy in which unconscious mental processes are brought into awareness. He had an obsession with repressed sexual urges.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
300
This is a mental health professional with an advanced degree who can prescribe medication.
What is a psychiatrist?
300
Research scientists recently tested the effects of electrical stimulation of the hippocampus to decrease the symptoms of depression. This is the __________ perspective.
What is the neuroscientific perspective?
300
This is the group of participants that are not exposed to the independent variable.
What is the control group?
300
If intelligence decreases while height increases, this indicates a possible _______________ correlation.
What is negative?
400
The man, the first American psychologist, was responsible for a movement known as functionalism
Who is William James?
400
This field involves applying psychology to the criminal justice system.
What is forensic psychology?
400
A scientist interested in the factors that make a short-term memory more likely to become a long-term memory subscribes to this psychological perspective.
What is the cognitive perspective?
400
This is the belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through observation.
What is empiricism?
400
The rule of ___________ says that the simplest theory is generally the best one.
What is parsimony?
500
This psychological movement de-emphasized the mind and was focused solely on measurable behavior.
What is behaviorism?
500
This career involves helping people through difficult times, and generally doesn't involve treating people with psychological disorders.
What is a counseling psychologist?
500
A study testing differences between Japanese and American subjects on a visual attention task would be coming from the ______________ perspective.
What is social cultural?
500
This is largest possible value of "r" for two variables that are positively correlated
What is "1"?
500
Illusory correlations suggest that we should always be careful to remember that "Correlation is not ___________."