The Scientific Method
This step in the scientific method involves coming up with an educated guess or prediction based on existing knowledge.
Forming a Hypothesis
This subfield studies how people grow and change throughout life, from infancy to old age. Hint: Dr. A has a degree in this!
Developmental Psychology
This railroad worker survived a severe brain injury in 1848 when a tamping iron passed through his skull.
One major theory says we sleep to help the brain consolidate these, turning short-term ones into long-term storage.
Memories
This is the grade you better get with the open assignments and quizzes....
An A
In the scientific method, this is what you collect to test your hypothesis, such as measurements or observations.
Data
This branch explores how brain injuries, diseases, and structures impact thoughts and behavior.
Neuropsychology
Phineas Gage’s injury primarily damaged this part of the brain, responsible for decision-making and personality.
REM stands for this, describing the eye movement seen during this sleep stage.
Rapid Eye Movement
In this psychological disorder, individuals experience extreme mood swings that include periods of mania and depression.
Bipolar Disorder
This step of the scientific method involves looking at the data and deciding whether it supports or contradicts the hypothesis.
Analyzing your results
Psychologists in this field design lab studies to explore perception, memory, and learning.
Experimental Psychology
After his accident, Gage was reported to have major changes in this aspect of his behavior, puzzling doctors and friends alike.
His personality
This natural, internal process regulates the sleep-wake cycle and repeats roughly every 24 hours.
Circadian Rhythm
This early school of thought in psychology focused on studying the structure of the mind by breaking down mental processes into their most basic components.
Structuralism
This is the part of the scientific method where you test your hypothesis through controlled procedures and observations.
Experimentation
This subfield focuses on diagnosing and treating mental illnesses and emotional disorders.
Clinical Psychology
Gage's case became one of the first pieces of evidence linking brain structures to these psychological traits.
Emotions & Behavior
This part of the brain, located in the hypothalamus, controls the circadian rhythm and responds to light.
SCN (Suprachiasmatic nucleus)
This area of the brain is involved in regulating basic life functions such as heartbeat, breathing, and sleep.
Brainstem
In the scientific method, this is the term for repeating the experiment under similar conditions to ensure the results are consistent.
Replication
This area studies how people think about, influence, and relate to one another in groups.
Social Psychology
The case of Phineas Gage is often cited in psychology to illustrate this concept—how damage to specific brain areas affects mental function.
Localization of function.
During REM sleep, this type of brain wave activity, usually seen in wakefulness, becomes more prominent.
Beta Waves
In 1920, he became the first Black man to earn a PhD in psychology, paving the way for future scholars of color.
Francis Cecil Sumner