Psychology History
The most infamous surgical procedure on the brain intended to cure psychological disorders
What is the lobotomy?
The name of the variable that affects the other in research
What is independent variable?
The computer program learned at SUNY Oswego to analyze data in PSY280
What is IBM SPSS Statistics?
DSM-V is the acronym for this book
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th Edition)?
The position that Dr. Dykas holds in Psi Chi
What is faculty advisor?
Sigmund Freud’s most controversial theory
What is Psychosexual development?
Research that examines just one person
What is a case study?
Arguably the most important statement about correlation in statistics
What is correlation does not equal causation?
GAD is the acronym for which mental disorder?
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
The field of psychology that Dr. Dykas specializes in
What is developmental psychology?
The behavioral model of psychology was first imagined by these two people
Who are Watson and Skinner?
A variable that correlates with the independent variable not originally considered in an experiment but may still affect the results
What is a confounding variable?
The 4 measurement scales in statistics
What are nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio?
Name 2-3 symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy, interpersonal entitlement, arrogance, envy
The state where Dr. Dykas is from
What is Massachusetts?
The “Big 5” models of psychology
biological, sociocultural, behavioral, cognitive, psychodynamic
Explain the difference between internal and external validity
Internal: describes the extent to which the experiment if free of errors and differences in DV due only to IV
External: how well the research generalizes to the outside world
The area in a curve in which it is so unlikely to represent the population that we “throw away” numbers past the appointed threshold is called this
What is the region of rejection?
The name for the disorder revolving around these symptoms: flashbacks, avoidance of a reminder of traumatic event, and negative alterations in cognitive/emotional well-being
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
The name of Dr. Dykas' daughter
Leah
Willian James is responsible for this psychological idea
What is fundamentalism?
Explain the difference between random selection and random assignment
Selection: the process to select your sample from the population
Assignment: ensures participants are randomly placed in experimental conditions
This must be performed when the F-test is significant
What are post-hoc comparisons?
Explain the difference between Bipolar I and Bipolar II disorders
(B-I) manic episodes and potential psychosis
(B-II) hypomania and at least 1 major depressive episode
Dr. Dykas drives this brand of car
What is Buick?