Brain Systems
This brain structure acts as the sensory control center for every sense except smell.
What is the thalamus?
A psychologist explains behavior by examining how a person's brain and other biological processes are functioning.
What is the neuroscience perspective?
Researchers conduct an intensive investigation of one unusual individual to obtain detailed information about their experiences and behavior.
What is a case study?
The neurotransmitter that is associated with pain control and pleasure.
After an injury, a person has significant difficulty with balance and previously learned motor movements.
What is the cerebellum?
A psychologist explains someone's depression by focusing on their negative, self-defeating beliefs about themselves and their future.
What is the cognitive perspective?
Every student at a university has an equal probability of being selected to participate in a study.
What is random sampling?
The neurotransmitter that is associated with attention, learning, emotion, and movement.
What is dopamine?
Damage to a particular structure interferes with someone's ability to form/reassemble explicit memories, including autobiographical memories and factual knowledge.
What is the hippocampus?
A psychologist argues that a person's behavior is influenced by anger that they cannot safely express, so the anger is repressed into the unconscious.
What is psychodynamic?
A study finds r = −.82 between two variables. Describe both the direction and strength of this relationship.
A strong negative correlation.
The stage where a person's brain is internally aroused while messages are sent to the limbs to not move.
REM sleep/paradoxical sleep
Someone can move normally and hear normally, but after brain damage has difficulty with judgment, planning, problem-solving, and aspects of personality.
What is the frontal lobe?
A psychologist explains that a college student’s depressive symptoms may be influenced by adjusting to new expectations, academic pressures, and being away from their usual support system.
What is the social-cultural perspective?
Researchers want to determine whether background music affects reading comprehension. One group reads while instrumental music plays and another reads in silence. Everyone then completes a 20-question reading comprehension test.
Identify the IV, DV, and the operational definition of the DV.
IV: Background music / music condition
DV: Reading comprehension
Operational definition of DV: Score on the 20-question reading comprehension test
Information appears in a person's left visual field. Which hemisphere receives that information, and which hand would that hemisphere control?
Right hemisphere → left hand.