What is Psychology
This early psychological school trained participants in introspection to discover the mind's structure.
Structuralism
This type of study uses self-reports and ideally random samples to observe a phenomenon.
Survey Study
Maggie was having severe seizures that caused electrical signals to quickly bounce between her right and left hemispheres. To treat this Dr. Hibbert cut this brain structure that connects and carries messages between the two hemispheres.
Corpus callosum
True or False:
Research shows that stress creates cancer cells.
False
True or False:
Research shows that pessimists are less likely to die than optimists because they are more realistic and aware of potential threats.
False
Natural Selection says that traits that enable _______________ & _______________ propagate into the future.
Survival and Reproduction
What does it mean when someone says that two things correlate?
They vary together
Carl Rogers only reflects emotion and paraphrases his client's statements as a way to help them become more congruent. He also emphasizes their potential for growth toward what he called self-actualization. He is practicing what type of psychology?
Humanistic Psychology
Lisa is has been studying hard for her Psychology 101 exam but she is still feeling anxious about her preparation. The exam is producing a reaction that she appraises as threatening or challenging otherwise known as...
Stress
Research shows that wealth does not consistently boost positive emotion and a good mood. People tend to adjust to their "new normal" of income. This is known as the...
Adaptation Level Phenomenon
What are the three basic levels of psychological analysis?
Biological, Psychological, Social
Case studies, surveys, and naturalistic observations all have this in common.
This brain structure is involved in hunger, thirst, temperature regulation, and sexual arousal.
The Hypothalamus
Homer is at work when the alarm for the nuclear reactor goes off. At first, it startles him but then he remembers they are having a test that day and he calms down and eats a doughnut. What part of Homer's nervous system down-regulates him after this startling arousal?
The parasympathetic nervous system
Martin Seligman was interested in studying human flourishing and promote the strengths and virtues of his clients. Also known as...
Positive Psychology
What does contemporary psychology emphasize in the role genes and environment play in the nature vs nurture argument of human behavior?
Genes and environment interact. Nature and Nurture influence each other.
Dr. Rogers is interested in studying television's influence on aggression. To study this, she designs an experiment where one group of children are shown a violent cartoon and another group is not. Then the children are placed in a room with a punching bag. Dr. Rogers records if the children hit the punching bag and finds that children exposed to violent cartoons hit the bag more often than those who were not.
In Dr. Rogers' experiment, what is the independent variable?
Exposure to a violent cartoon.
The limbic system consists of the...
Amygdala
Hippocampus
Hypothalamus
This historical theory of emotion says that emotion follows two neural pathways. The high pathway is what gives us conscious appraisal allowing us to define our emotion and the low pathway is embodied and happens instantly.
Zajonc, Ledoux, and Lazarus Theory
What are the phases of general adaptation syndrome?
Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion
Fancis is taking a word scramble test. Before he takes the test he gets a peek at the first answer and thinks "Oh this will be easy. I would definitely have figured that out on my own." However, once he starts taking the test without the answers it becomes much harder. Fancis tends to believe that he could foresee an answer once he already knows it. What type of error is Francis committing?
Hindsight Bias
What are the APA ethics codes when working with human participants?
Obtain informed consent.
Keep information about individual participants confidential.
Fully debrief people.
Protect participants from greater-than-usual harm and discomfort.
Mr. Burns has fallen and hit the back of his head. When he stands up he loses his balance and begins to see stars. What two areas of his brain are likely affected by his fall?
Occipital lobe
Cerebellum
Facial expressions not only communicate emotion, they also...
regulate & amplify it
Elon Musk is feeling quite depressed today. He has just found out that Jeff Bezos made more than $4 million than he did last year. Despite his wealth, Elon's comparison of himself to someone else appears to be the source of his depression. This is known as...
Relative Deprivation