Scientific Method
Step 2 of the scientific method, which involves "if __, then __" statements
What is a hypothesis?
Tiny spaces between neurons
What are synapses?
An approach to psychology focusing on the body
What is the biological approach?
Research that involves describing some phenomenon
What is descriptive research?
The brain's special capacity for change
What is neuroplasticity?
Broad closely-related ideas that attempt to explain observations
What is a theory?
The network of nerves that connect the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body
What is the peripheral nervous system?
The founder of the psychodynamic approach
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Design that examines how related two variables are
What is a correlational design?
Cells that receive, process, and communicate information
What are neurons?
An experimental group that does not get manipulated
What is the control group?
Part of the autonomic nervous system that arouses the body for action
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Organisms that are better adapted to their environment will survive and produce more offspring
What is Darwin's theory of Natural Selection?
Findings that can be applied to the real world
What is generalizability?
Lobe at the top/rear head that are involved in registering spatial location, attention, and motor control
What is the parietal lobe?
Mathematical methods that are used to indicate whether the data sufficiently support a research hypothesis
What are inferential statistics?
The system which transports messages related to the body's internal organs functionality
What is the autonomic nervous system?
An approach to psychology which focuses on a person's positive qualities
What is the Humanistic Approach?
A design that compares people of different ages at the same time
What is a cross-sectional design?
The large bundle of axons that connects the brain’s two hemispheres
What is the corpus callosum?
When observing 2 competing theories, opt for the harder one
What is the Principle of Parsimony?
Nerves that carry information about the external environment to the brain and spinal cord
What are afferent/sensory nerves?
The theory that the mind and body are intertwined
What is the biopsychosocial model?
On a scatterplot, when one variable goes up, the other goes down
What is a negative correlation?
The body system consisting of a set of glands that regulate the activities of certain organs by releasing hormones
What is the endocrine system?