Approaches to Psych
This approach, founded by Wilhelm Wundt, emphasized a focus on the components and structures of the mind using the tool of introspection.
What is Structuralism?
These were the cells stolen from Henrietta Lacks without her consent for medical research.
What are HeLa Cells?
This is the part of the brain that controls balance and coordination.
What is the Cerebellum?
This type of study involves both the tester and subject not knowing whether the subject is in the control or experimental group.
What is a Double-Blind study?
This is the master gland, ruler of all, regulating growth, reproduction, and metabolism.
What is the Pituitary Gland?
This approach to psychology purely focused on observable stimuli and response behavior, considering positive and negative reinforcement. A big name in this field is Pavlov.
What is behaviorism.
The city in which the government ran unethical studies on black men involving infecting them with syphilis without their knowledge.
What is Tuskegee, Alabama.
This side of the brain processes numbers that contain zero.
What is the right side of the brain?
This is the name of the effect in which people's belief that something will happen heavily influences the odds of it happening.
What is the Placebo Effect?
This neurotransmitter/hormone goes by two common names and is responsible for preparing your body for dangerous situations and controls a lot of functions relating to blood flow.
What is Adrenaline/Epinephrine?
This approach focuses on explaining behavior through internal processes such as memory, emotion, problem solving, etc.
What is the cognitive approach to psychology?
This is the experiment that involved looking at the effects of power on people placed in artificial prisoner and guard roles.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This is a neuropeptide that often acts as a neurotransmitter and causes feelings of burning pain when absent in the tongue.
What is Substance-P?
This is the term for the effect differing tester behavior has on the consistency of data collected.
What is inter-tester reliability.
A hormone that assists in inducing sleep through it's control over your circadian rhythm and is often taken orally to assist in falling asleep.
What is Melatonin?
This is the approach to psychology that emphasizes repressed urges and subconscious desires.
What is the Psychodynamic approach?
This event kickstarted the founding of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research
What is the press learning about the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments.
These are the two parts of the brain stem, responsible for sleep processes, connecting the cerebrum to cerebellum, & regulating blood pressure and heart rate, and connecting the spinal cord and brain.
What are the Pons and Medulla?
A study conducted over long periods of time with the same recurring participants.
What is Longitudinal research?
This is the organ that produces insulin and glucagon.
What is the PANCREAS???
This man helped formalize psychology as a field and founded the functionalist school of thought.
Who is William James?
This person first coined the term projecting and agreed with a lot of her father's beliefs about psychology but approached it with more of a focus on child psychology.
Who is Anna Freud, Freud's Daughter?
This is the location of the sciatic nerve, the thickest nerve in the human body.
What is the leg?
These are the 3 R's of study design when working with animals according to IACUC.
What is Replace, Reduce, Refine?
This is a gland that controls metabolism, located towards the front of the base of your throat under your skin.
What is the thyroid?