Early History of Psych
This precursor to psychology believed that a person’s mental attributes could be measured using the bumps on their skull.
Phrenology
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers are in which school of thought?
Humanistic Psychology
The two major divisions of the nervous system are the central and the ________ nervous systems.
Peripheral
The symmetrical bell-shaped figure used to represent the distribution of many physical and psychological characteristics is called a __________.
a.normal curve
From the 1920s into the 1960s, American psychologists emphasized the study of this...
observable behavior
The ongoing debate in the discipline of psychology has been...
Nature vs. Nurture
The speed at which a neural impulse travels is increased when the axon is encased by a(n)
__________.
myelin sheath
A statement describing the exact procedures for measuring an anticipated experimental outcome is known as a(n) __________.
operational definition
Wilhelm Wundt carried out experiments in his lab which measured what?
Response rates
In the 1960s, the cognitive revolution in psychology involved a renewal of interest in the scientific study of what?
mental processes
Which part of the nervous system controls our glands and internal organ muscles?
Autonomic
A theory is an explanation using an integrated set of principles that ______ observations and ______ behaviors or events.
organizes; predicts
She was the first female Ph.D. in psychology
Margaret Floy Washburn
The biopsychosocial approach incorporates different levels of analysis, which are what?
complementary
The amygdala consists of emotion-linked neural clusters in the __________.
Limbic system
Studying people of all races and cultures is most helpful for...
discerning human similarities and differences.
In what year was psychology born as a science?
1879
Clinical psychologists specialize in what type of work?
providing therapy to troubled people
This is how we describe a neuron's reaction of either firing at full strength or not firing at all...
all-or-none response
Psychologists study animals because...
a.similar processes often underlie animal and human behavior.