Is it Psychology?
What is the primary purpose of psychological research?
To explain, describe and predict behaviors/thoughts/feelings
What is structuralism?
Study of the content (rather than function) of mental processes (Wundt)
Why can the girl with half a brain function so well?
Plasticity. She was young when had hemispherectomy.
What is the only study type that can determine causality?
Experiment
Who is Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us” about?
Drake
What are the origins of psychology?
Philosophy and Natural Sciences
What did Little Albert show us?
Conditioning
What function/ability could be adversely affected if you damaged the front of your brain behind your forehead?
Personality, reasoning, impulses
What two variables are measured in an experimental design?
IV (manipulated) & DV (measured)
What is Eminem’s real name?
Marshall Mathers
Why do we study unusual people like Phineas Gage?
Tell us something about the normal condition
All around the world people smile. How might an Evolutionary Psychologist explain this universal trait?
Social communication & connection
Explain why a clone might not be identical to the creature it was cloned from even though they’re genetically identical.
Epigenetics
What does the placebo effect reveal about human nature?
Power of expectations
Who's the record-holding hot dog eater?
Joey Chestnut
What does the video of the gorilla walking through the basketball players demonstrate?
We don't pay attention to everything!
What does Maslow think is most important to human needs?
self-actualization, realization of full potential
Name a trait/characteristic that is due only to nurture
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What’s an example of something psychologists might want to study that can’t be experimentally manipulated?
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Who was the first athlete to appear on a Wheaties cereal box?
Lou Gherig
What do statements like "The goat is ready to eat" demonstrate?
Subjectivity/range of human experience
What kind of psychologist was Freud?
He was a medical doctor
Why should Emily eat eggs?
Shuts down gene for visceral fat gain reducing risk for heart disease
Would a replication of the Jim twins case be an observational or experimental study?
Observational
What is the name for a group of porcupines?
Prickle