What is Psychology?
Research Methods
Parts of the brain
Are you "nervous"?
Miscellaneous
100

The first person referred to as a psychologist was....

Who is Wilhelm Wundt?

100

The number of calls a person receives and their level of fatigue tend to increase together.  This trend is referred to as ______________________.

What is a positive correlation?

100

The hippocampus is a part of the brain primarily involved in storing _________________.

What are memories?

100

The part of a neuron that receives a message.

What are dendrites?

100

What student in this class could we call Carl?

Who is Jack (Antonio)?

200

What do we call the chamber that a rat is placed in for training in behavioral studies?

What is a Skinner box?

200

Correlation does not equal ________________.

What is causation?

200

The hindbrain, midbrain, and ______________.

What is forebrain?

200

The part of the cell/neuron that contains the nucleus?

What is the soma/cell body?

200

How many volleyball players do we have in this class?

What is 3?


300

________________'s hierarchy of needs.

Who is Abraham Maslow?

300

In an experiment, the variable you manipulate is known as the _____________________ variable.

What is independent?

300

What do we call the thin sheet of neurons covering the entire brain?

What is the cerebral cortex?

300

The matter made of glial cells that covers the axon of a neuron and speed transmission of messages.

What is myelin?

300

DBJ lives in ___________________.

What is Hillsboro?

400

Psychology is the study of the mind and ____________________.

What is behavior?

400

A part of the population that is studied to make conclusions about the population at large is a _______________.

What is sample?

400

The thin band of fibers separating the left and right hemispheres of the brain is the ________ _________________.

What is the corpus callosum?

400

If it's not the CNS, its the ______________.

What is PNS/peripheral nervous system?

400

How many children does Prof. Benson-Johnson have?

What is 6 or 4?

500

Wilhelm Wundt was from the country of _______________, while William James was from the country of _________________.

What is Germany, and the United States?

500
We know that as stress goes up, illness occurrence goes up, but poverty is related to both stress and illness and could be a causing factor in that correlation.  Poverty in this case is a _______________ variable.

What is third?

500

The amygdala is a structure in the midbrain which processes ___________________.

What is emotion?

500

Which branch of the autonomic nervous system is responsible for our "fight-or-flight" response?

What is the sympathetic nervous system?

500

What is Raymond's middle name?

What is Jerome?