They are located at the front of the brain just behind the forehead. They are also involved in planning and thinking, rational & executive control and regulating excesses of the emotional system
What are the Frontal Lobes
100
It is the psychological process of adapting to, coping with and managing the challenges of everyday life.
What is adjustment?
100
The historical, economic, social and cultural factors and settings that influence us.
What is context?
100
Everything people do that can be directly observed.
What is behavior?
100
Is a prediction that can be tested.
What is a Hypothesis?
200
This area of the brain controls body movement and works with the crebellum to coordinate learning of motor skills.
What is the motor cortex?
200
Brofenbrenner's theory holds that people are influenced by five environmental systems.
What is Ecological Theory? Identify the five systems. Microsystem, mesosytem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem.
200
It refers to the behavior patterns, beliefs, language and all other products of a group of people that are passed on from generation to generation.
What is cuture
200
The scientific term for how people evaluate their lives in terms of happiness and life satisfaction.
What is Subjective Well-Being?
200
A four-step process of conceptualizing a problem, collecting research information, analyzing the data, and drawing conclusions.
What is the scientific methos?
300
This portion of the brain houses the reticular activating system.
What is the brain stem?
300
Compare two or more cultures for the purpose of determining if a process or characteristic is universal or culture specific.
What are cross cultural studies?
300
The process of thinking reflectively, productively and evaluating the evidence.
What is Critical Thinking?
300
The person who first defined SWB?
What is Ed Diener?
300
A carefully regulated procedure in which one or more factors believed to influence the behavior being studied are manipulated while all other factors are held constant.
What is an experiment?
400
This system of the brain is located above the brain stem and is involved with emotions, learning and memory.
What is the Limbic System?
400
It is rooted in cultural heritage, nationality, race, religion and language.
What is ethnicity?
400
It is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is Psychology?
400
Diener found that these individuals were highly social, more extraverted and had stronger romantic and social relationships than the less happy group.
Who are very happy college students?
400
It is manipulated, influential, and and experimental factor?
What is an Independent Variable?
500
this portion of the brain plays a critical role in emotions, especially those related to survival.
What is the amygdala
500
The psycholgical and sociocultural dimensions of being female or male.
What is gender?
500
Conclusions we draw from behavior.
What are inferences?
500
Consists of thoughts, feelings, and motives that each person experiences privately but cannot be observed.
What are mental processes.
500
Researches assign participants to experimental and contol grops by chance.