Fields of Psychology
Research Methods
Consciousness
The Brain
Double Points
100
Coleman Griffith is known as the father of this field of psychology.
What is sports psychology?
100
Studying people's sleeping cycles while taking a certain medication is an example of this type of research.
What is experimental research?
100
The focusing of consciousness on a particular stimulus is known as?
What is selection attention?
100
These membranes cover the brain and spinal cord.
What are the meninges?
100
This effect refers to differences in research participants' responses that result from the order in which the experimental materials are presented to them.
What is the Order Effect?
200
This field of psychology creates jobs based on the needs of businesses.
What is the field of industrial and organizational psychology?
200
This is the tendency to believe, after learning the outcome, that you knew it all along.
What is hindsight bias?
200
This helps in regulating the timing of sleep and wakefulness.
What is the circadian rhythm?
200
This hemisphere of your brain is responsible for visual spatial skills.
What is the right hemisphere?
200
When the gorilla monkey business video was shown, not noticing the player leaving from the screen is an example of this type of blindness.
What is inattentional blindness?
300
The "BoBo Doll" experiment was researched by this psychologist.
Who is Albert Bandura?
300
This effect is coined after a research notice the the gullibility of people when reading descriptions of themselves.
What is the Barnum Effect?
300
This condition is where a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it.
What is blindsight?
300
This is the structure in the brain that connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
300
Jean Arnett is a famous psychologist in this field of psychology.
What is the field of developmental psychology?
400
This type of psychologist examines how one persons thoughts impact their behaviors and feelings
What is a cognitive behaviorists?
400
When a researcher studied effects of teachers' supervision on students when taking a test, they found their research had been affected by this effect.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
400
Cerebral Spinal Fluid is created by this type of cell.
What are choriod plexus cells?
400
This area of the brain is responsible sensory input and sensory discrimination.
What is the parietal lobe?
500
This researcher studied how labeling affects people and crime.
Who is Howard Becke
500
In this procedure, neither the researcher nor the participants know which experimental group the participants are in.
What is the double blind procedure?
500
This researcher studied epilepsy and found that cutting the corpus callosum could reduce or eliminate seizures.
Who is Roger Sperry?
500
This type of processing is responsible for routine behaviors, like riding your bike on a familiar path.
What is Unconsciousness Parallel Processing?