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This is the leading professional association for psychologists in North America.
This married couple were the 1st Black Americans to earn PhDs in psychology from Columbia, and their research influenced the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Who are Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth Clark?
This is a series of objective steps for empirically testing an idea.
What is the scientific method?
This concept describes the variety of ways people’s brains process information, function, and present themselves behaviorally.
What is neurodiversity?
This part of the brain helps maintain homeostatic functions such as hunger and temperature.
What is the hypothalamus?
Known as the “Father of American Psychology”, he taught the first psychology course in the U.S.
Who is William James?
Mary Whiton Calkins was the first woman president of the APA and the American Philosophical Association, and established the first psychology lab studying this population.
Who are women?
This research uses materials originally created for some other purpose, like police records or social media posts.
What is archival research?
These types of neurons play a role in empathy.
What are mirror neurons?
This lobe is responsible for higher-order functions such as attention, planning, impulse control, problem solving, creativity, social interaction, and motor function.
What is the frontal lobe?
He was a physiologist known as the founder of psychology, and established the 1st psychology lab at the University of Leipzig in Germany.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Yūjirō Motora, whose work recognized and described challenges for school children—later identified as Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder, established the first psychology lab in this country.
What is Japan?
Finish the statement: Correlation does not equal...
What is causation?
This is a space between neurons where chemical communication occurs.
What is a synapse?
This gland is responsible for releasing the adrenaline.
What is the adrenal gland?
This psychologist pioneered talking about one's issues as a treatment technique and highlighted the importance of childhood experiences in adult mental health.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Laura King investigates individual well-being and happiness, often in this community/population.
What is the LGBTQ+ community?
Random assignment, which involves assigning participants to groups by a purely random method, is used in this type of research study.
What is a true experiment?
This component of the central nervous system primarily controls reflexes.
What is the spinal cord?
This is the brain’s ability to adopt new functions, re-organize itself, or make new neural connections as a function of experience.
What is neuroplasticity?
This psychologist used a humanist perspective and promoted the idea that therapists should strive to be accepting and respectful of clients, no matter what they express.
Who is Carl Rogers?
This psychologist advocates for disabled people.
Who is Alette Coble-Temple?
This is a movement to make science more transparent, cooperative, reproducible, and honest.
These two components of the autonomic nervous system are responsible for the stress response and support homeostasis. (Tell me which is which)
What are the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems?
This neuroimagining technique uses magnet + radio waves to create detailed images of the brain but does not record brain activity.
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)?