History
Who opened the first psychology research lab, in Leipzig, Germany, in 1879?
Wilhelm Wundt
A school psychologist uses this year's test scores to forecast which students will struggle next year. Which goal of psychology is this?
Predict
In multiple sclerosis, the immune system attacks this part of the neuron, so signals slow down or get lost. Which part is it?
The myelin sheath
Six chairs are set up as two tight groups of three, with a big gap in the middle. You see two groups of chairs. Which Gestalt principle is this?
Proximity
After flying from Boston to Paris, you feel wide awake at 3 a.m. Your body's roughly 24-hour clock is out of step with local time. What is this daily cycle called?
A circadian rhythm
Sigmund Freud's school focused on unconscious drives and early childhood experience. What was it called?
Psychoanalysis
A researcher sits in a mall and records how often shoppers check their phones, without talking to anyone or changing anything. Which research method is this?
Naturalistic observation
Before a big presentation your heart races and your palms sweat. Which branch of the nervous system is in charge?
The sympathetic nervous system.
Your eyes pick up light from a shape, and your brain decides it is your friend's face. Is the deciding part sensation or perception?
Perception
Attention picks out some things and leaves the rest out. Psychologists often compare it to what object?
A spotlight
A psychologist ignores thoughts and feelings and simply counts what a child does, like how often she raises her hand in class. Which school of thought is this?
Behaviorism
Study A finds a -0.60 correlation between phone use and sleep. Study B finds a +0.45 correlation between exercise and mood. Which study found the stronger relationship?
Study A
You touch a hot pan. Which type of neuron carries the "hot" message from your hand toward your spinal cord and brain?
Sensory neurons
The smell of sunscreen can bring back a memory of a summer vacation, because smell's signals bypass ............ and directly go to the amygdala and hippocampus.
Thalamus
A person is woken up and says she was in the middle of a vivid, story-like dream. Which sleep stage was she most likely in?
REM sleep.
William James's school asked what the mind is for, how thinking and behavior help us adapt. What was it called?
Functionalism
In an experiment, a coin flip decides which group each volunteer joins. What is this called?
Randon assignment
During stress, your adrenal glands release cortisol into the bloodstream. What kind of chemical messenger is cortisol?
A hormone.
You read a friend's messy handwriting easily because you know what words to expect. What kind of processing is this?
Top-down processing
"Why does chocolate taste like something to you, instead of nothing?" This question is an example of which problem of consciousness?
The hard problem
Who is the founder of modern vision science who defines perception as "unconscious inference"?
Hermann von Helmholtz
A study finds that homes with more books have children with higher grades. A reporter writes that buying books raises grades. Which rule does the reporter break?
Correlation does not prove causation
After a neurotransmitter crosses the synapse, the sending neuron pulls the leftover molecules back in. What is this process called?
After an illness, a woman could still see, hear, and feel touch, but she had no idea where her arms and legs were unless she looked at them. The sense she lost is called
Proprioception
Freud said dreams hide wishes behind symbols. According to the current view, what do dreams mostly reflect?
Your waking thoughts and concerns