Psychology
Is
Really
Cool
and Stuff
100

This lobe of the brain is responsible for vision

Occipital Lobe

100

These specialists are most likely to prescribe a drug for treatment of a psychological disorder

Psychiatrists

100

Period of life when an individual first becomes capable of reproduction

Puberty

100

A psychological test that measures what it is suppose to measure is said to have this

Validity

100

A group of participants who receive a placebo in an experiment would fall into this group  

Control Group

200

Psychology is the study of these two things.

Brain and Behavior 

200

Neurotransmitters, when released by the neuron, cross over this

Synapse

200

Watching dogs play in the park or watching kids play on a playground are examples of this

Naturalistic observation

200

These early psychologists believed that people viewed their world as a pursuit to find what makes them feel whole 

Gestalt

200

According to Freud, this part of the psyche strives for constant perfection

Superego

300

The dreaming stage of the sleep cycle

REM

300

This form of punishment is used to decrease a bad behavior by adding a uncomfortable stimulus 

Positive Punishment

300

According to Freud, this part of the psyche was animalistic and selfish

Id

300

When someone feels guilty and morally wrong after cheating on an exam. Freud would contribute these feelings to the __________

Superego

300

When a teenager has his cellphone taken away by his parents after a poor report card, his/her parents are practicing this form of punishment

negative punishment

400

This conditional behavior is identified by a person giving up when presented with seemingly unsolvable problems

learned helplessness

400

Brain lobe that control visual processes

Temporal Lobe

400

The process of repeating the contents of short-term memory over and over

maintenance rehearsal

400

the statement "Children who play violent video games will become more aggressive" is an example of a

Theory

400

This stage of memory has the greatest capacity

Long-term memory
500
This psychologist proposed the idea that dreams served as a gateway into our unconsciousness

Sigmund Freud

500

In an experiment studying the effect of a hair cream on the regrowth of hair, the measurable regrowth of hair would be the 

dependent variable

500

The reappearance of a previously extinguished response

Spontaneous recovery

500

In an experiment studying the effect of supplements on muscle growth, the supplements used would be the

 independent variable

500

This principal suggests neurons either completely transmit the signal from the brain or does not transmit the signal 

"All or nothing principal"