The man who's head injury jumpstarted research connecting physical brain changes to changes in behavior.
Who is Phineas Gage?
100
This is when many individuals are asked to answer a fixed set of questions about particular subjects.
What is a survey?
100
Astrology and palm reading are classified as...
What is pseudosciences?
100
This is the study and focus of observable behavior...
What is behaviorism?
100
This is bridge between hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus collossum?
200
This lobe is the hearing and language center of the brain.
What is the temporal lobe?
200
An in depth analysis of a one or a few person's thoughts, feelings, beliefs, or behaviors. Often rely upon direct observation...
What is a case study?
200
These are all 4 of the goals of psychology...
What is DESCRIBE, EXPLAIN, PREDICT, CONTROL?
200
This focus' goal was to analyze consciousness into basic elements and study how they are related.
What is structuralism?
200
Your teacher, as an adolescent, was diagnosed with this brain disorder.
What is epilepsy?
300
This is the neurotransmitter that affects mood and your pleasure gained from completing an activity.
What is dopamine?
300
This is a factor that is missing from a statistical study that explains that correlation between two factors. Think about it as CREEPING up on you...
What is a LURKING variable?
300
This perspective focuses on how we think (process, store and retrieve information.)
What is the cognitive approach?
300
William James wrote about this, and his idea was that we should investigate the function, or purpose of consciousness.
What is functionalism?
300
This surgery is now a banned practice, and involved removing a portion of a mental patient's frontal lobe through the nose.
What is a lobotomy?
400
This is the long, thin portion of a neuron that carries messages away from the cell body.
What is an axon?
400
This kind of relationship is described with a correlation coefficient of -1.
What is a perfect negative (linear) relationship?
400
This pyramid shaped chart starts with a foundation of physical needs, and progresses upward, finishing with self actualization.
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
400
I was based in Vienna, Austria, smoked cigars, and focused on dreams of my patients.
Who is Freud?
400
This 1975 film, based on a novel, stars Jack Nicholson portraying a man pretending to be insane to avoid jail time, with disastrous consequences.
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
500
This gland, found in one's throat, is in charge of metabolism, hormone balance, and is prone to cancer.
What is the thyroid?
500
This type of bias affects our daily lives, the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's beliefs while giving less attention to information that contradicts it.
What is confirmation bias?
500
This man is considered to be the father of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
500
This field of psychology produces the most careers in psychology every year.
What is clinical psychology?
500
This is the brain disorder where one sees colors, tastes sounds etc.