This approach to psychology operates under the premise that humans want to become they best they can possibly be and are striving towards the ultimate goal of self-actualization.
What is the humanistic perspective?
100
In order to be called a "psychologist" one must have a license to practice in their state, several hours of supervised clinical experience, and this college degree.
What is a PhD?
100
A relatively small group of people from the overall population that you are studying is called this.
What is a sample?
100
This part of the brain consists of two halves called hemispheres and is the source of most complex human behavior.
What is the cerebrum (cerebral cortex)?
100
This chemical messenger of the nervous sytem allows electrical impulses to travel along neural pathways.
What is a neurotransmitter?
200
"Because your parents were very distant and emotionally unavailable to you as a child, you now have difficulty trusting other adults." The statement reflects this perspective.
What is the psychodynamic/psychoanalytic perspective?
200
This mental health professional is actually a medical doctor and can diagnose physical causes of behavior and prescribe medicinal treatments for those disorders.
What is a psychiatrist?
200
If you wanted to study the mating rituals of nondomesticated animals, it would be best to use this method of research.
What is naturalistic observation?
200
This section of the forebrain controls functions such as hunger, thirst and sexual behavior.
What is the hypothalamus?
200
This part of a neuron protects the axon fibers and speeds up neural impulses. It acts like the plastic coating on electrical wires.
What is the myelin sheath?
300
A psychologist who looks at medical or physical causes for abnormal human behavior most likely operates from this perspective.
What is the biological perspective?
300
These psychologists study and develop methods for businesses to improve production from their workforce.
What is an industrial/organizational psychologist?
300
This measures the relatedness between two sets of variables and is described as positive, negative or zero.
What is a corrleation?
300
This part of the limbic system controls violence and fear and helps us interpret people's facial expressions.
What is the amygdala?
300
This gland of the endocrine system is the master gland and controls many hormones that regulate reproduction, ovulation, and growth.
What is the pituitary gland?
400
A psychologist who is interested in your experiences as a member of an ethnic or cultural minority would most likely explain your behaviors from this perspective.
What is the sociocultural perspective?
400
Someone who works within the court system and creates profiles of criminals works in this branch of psychology.
What is forensic psychology?
400
Dr. Smith wants to see how the same group of children change their attitudes toward school between kindergarten and 8th grade. He would most likely use this type of study, which examines the same group of participants over a long period of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
400
This part of the brain acts as a relay station for incoming information from your sensory organs and directs that information towards the proper lobe for interpretation.
What is the thalamus?
400
The pancreas secretes this hormone, which controls the levels of glucose in your bloodstream.
What is insulin?
500
The processing, storage, and retrieval of information and how that influences behavior is the focus of this perspective.
What is the cognitive perspective?
500
Holly, who tests elementary students for learning disabilities and helps design individualized instruction programs for those students, is this type of psychologist.
What is a school psychologist?
500
This number falls between -1.0 and +1.0 and tells the strength of the relationship between two variables.
What is the correlation coefficient?
500
This structure connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain and allows them to communicate with each other.
What is the corpus callosum?
500
If your immune system has been compromised, it could be due to a malfunctioning of this gland.