Intro to Psychology
What is psychology?
What is the scientific study of the mind and behavior
What is Archival Research?
What is studying existing data sets to answer research questions
What is Illusory Correlation?
What is seeing relationships between two things when in reality no such relationships exists
What are genotypes and phenotypes
Genotype is the genetic makeup of an individual
Phenotypes are an individuals inherited physical characteristics that come from a combination of genetic and environmental influences
What is Evolutionary psychology?
What is a discipline that studies how universal patterns of behavior and cognitive processes have evolved over time as a result of natural selection
Who helped create psychology as a scientific discipline?
Who is Wilhelm Wundt and William James
What is Cross-sectional research?
What is comparing multiple segments of a population at a single time. Such as comparing 20 year old's, 30 year old's, and 40 year old's.
Who is Jean Piaget
What are the parts of a Neuron?
What are the cell membrane, dendrite, cell body, axon, terminal buttons and myelin sheath
What is Stage 1 sleep?
What did Sigmund Freud believe? And what theory did he pioneer?
What is understanding the unconscious mind was critical to understanding conscious behavior. What is psychoanalytic theory.
What is attrition?
What is a reduction in the number of research participants as some drop out of the study over time
What connects the two hemispheres of the brain?
What is the corpus callosum
What is membrane potential?
What is physical dependence?
What is changes in normal bodily functions that cause a drug user to experience withdrawal symptoms upon cessation of use
What is Behaviorism? Who is the father of behaviorism?
What is the focus on observing and controlling behavior and John Watson
What is Reliability and Validity?
Reliability is the ability to consistently produce a given result
Validity is the extent to which a given instrument to tool accurately measures what it's supposed to measure
What is essential for language production?
What is Broca's area
Explain the threshold of excitation?
After an influx of positive ions enter the cell the charge of the cell becomes more positive, once the charge reaches a specific level the neuron becomes active and the action potential begins
What emerges in Stage 2 sleep?
What are the applied areas of psychology?
What is Industrial and organizational, health, sport and exercise, forensic and clinical psychology
What is the name of the committee that review research proposals that involve human participants
Institutional review board
Why do we sleep?
What is sleep is important to learning and memory, although the reason we sleep still remains a mystery
What are the two subdivisions of the Nervous System?
What are the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
What drug serves as agonists of the dopamine neurotransmitter system?
What is stimulants