History
The scientific study of behavior,
emotional, and mental processes.
Psychology
Theory by Wilhelm Wundt dealing with objective sensations and subjective feelings
Structuralism
Brain part the connects the two hemispheres
Corpus Collosum
A systematic procedure for answering scientific questions
Research Method
The group in an experiment that does not receive treatment
Control Group
Name a job a psychologist does other than therapy.
Research, forensics, school counseling, advertising, environmental studies, human resources, architecture consultant
Theory involving more introspection as well as observation with behaviors being learned and maintained to be successful
Functionalism
Hemisphere (left or right) that contains analytical processes, soothing, language, and time sequencing
Left
Fill in the blank for the Scientific Method:
Observation, Define the problem, __________, gathering evidence, results, build a theory
Form hypotheses
Type of variable that represents the effects of the experiment
Dependent Variable
The early civilization that first explored and documented theories of the mind
Greek
Theory that deals with what is observable only
Behaviorism
The hemisphere of the brain containing emotions, musical ability, humor, and recognizing voices
Right
True or false: Correlation does not mean causation
True
Treatments that contain no actual treatment but it is believed that they do
Placebo
Before modern day knowledge, people with mental health issues were locked up in these
asylums
Theory that focuses on childhood experiences and your mom
Psychoanalysis
The concept of "use it or lose it" to use and maintain neuronal connections through new experiences and skills
neuroplasticity
The type of variable that is manipulated by researchers in an experiment
independent
Type of study where neither researchers nor participants know who gets the treatments
Double blind
Name one horrific way mental illness used to be treated.
Theory that deals with a person on a whole
Gestalt
The fatty part surrounding the axon, or tail of a neuron
myelin sheath
The correlation coefficient is on a scale of -1 through _________
+1
Name one of the different types of research methods
Naturalistic, correlational, experimental, clinical, survey