Put in Perspective
Guess who?
Biological Psych
Mixed chapters
Research
100

This perspective focused on how mental activities helped an organism fit into this world

What is functionalism?

100

Who is the father of psychology?

Wilhelm Wundt 

100

Which part of the brain focuses on survival functions?-Forebrain, Midbrain, and Hindbrain 

Hindbrain 

100

Increase in sensitivity in low light which allow very sensitive rods to pick up low light signals?

Dark adaptation 

100

What does not imply causation?

Correlation

200
Which perspective said that male bias exist in psychology

feminist perspective 

200

Who is the first American Psychologist?

William James 

200

Which lobe is responsible for receiving senses of touch? 

A)frontal 

b)parietal 

C)temporal 

D)occipital 

Parietal 

200

Aaron is walking late night at night, which sensory receptors is he most likely using?

Rods 

200

This variable affects both variables of interest at the same time and gives the impression of an cause and effect relationship 

Confounding variable 

300

This contemporary perspective focuses on the treatment and problematic behaviors?

clinical 

300

These guys focused on observable behavior? Hint-There are multiple people you can name in this catergory

Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner 

300

Chemicals which carry a charge and over time can excite or inhibit the next nuerons action potential are called what?

Neurotransmitters 

300

Hertz is a measure of what?

Frequency 

300

This study is when both participants and researchers are unaware of group assignments 

double blind study 

400

This perspective focuses on the whole is greater than its parts 

Gestalt 

400

Carl Rogers and Maslow focused on this perspective where the focus was on the potential for good and becoming our best self?

Humanism or Humanistic Psychology

400

Which is division is responsible for rest and recovery?

Parasympthateic 

400

The stimulation of a receptor cell in one sense of the organs is called?

Sensation, not to be confused with perception in which the brain organizes raw sensory data in meaningul experience 

400

Theories must be testable and _______?

Falsifiable 
500

This psychologist in this perspectives often are involved in matters pertaining to personnel management, organizational structure, and workplace environment

industrial organization 

500

Which behaviorist had a box in which rats pressed a lever for food in order to study operant conditiioning?

Skinner and his box is called Skinners box 

500

Anthony has Parkinson's disease which means his _____________ is prodcuing less dopamine?

A)hypothalamus 

B)substania nigra 

C)hippocampus 

D)thalamus 

B) substania nigra 

500

Jennifer has been depressed for several months, and she decided to take an overdose of sleeping pills. After taking the pills, her breathing rate decreased dramatically, her heart slowed down, and her blood pressure decreased. Which brain structure is the drug acting on?

A) medulla 

B) pons 

C)amygdala 

D)reticular formation 

A) medulla 

500

This board makes sure that human research is done ethically? 

IRB