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| Psychology is defined as the |
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| scientific study of behavior and mental processes than humans do making it easier to see the effect of manipulations. |
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| The goals of psychology are |
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| description, explanation, control, prediction. |
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| a general explanation of a set of observations or facts |
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| the soul could exist separate from the body |
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| Edward Ticheners structuralism states that |
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| every experience can be broken down into its individual emotions and sensations. |
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| True or False: Psychology is a relatively new science and is only about 125 years old. |
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| This psychological professional must also have a medical degree |
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| Psychiatric social workers focus on |
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| environmental conditions such as pooverty, overcrowding, stress and drug abuse that have an impact on mental disorders |
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| True or False: The vast majority of psychologists focus on delivering therapy to people who need help. |
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| True or False: A person with either a medical degree or doctoral degree is referred to as a psychologist |
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| True or False: There must be no deception of the subjects in human research. |
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| Psychologists use animals in research for what 4 reasons? |
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1. Researchers can do many things to animals they cannot eithically do to people.
2. Many animals live shorter lives than humans, so looking at long term effects is much easier.
3. The researcher can control diet, living arrangements and even genetic relatedness of the animals.
4. Animals engage in much simpler behavior |
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| Critical thinking is defined as |
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| the ability to make reasoned judgements |
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| True or False: Just because a person is an expert in his or her field does not mean that everything that person states is automatically true. |
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| Name - in order - the 5 basic steps a researcher uses in the scientific research method. |
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1. Perceiving the question
2. Forming a hypothesis
3. Testing the hypothesis
4. Drawing conclusions
5. Reporting results |
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| True or False: If your experiment or study does not find support for your hypothesis, then your hypothesis must be incorrect. |
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| researchers allow their expectations about what they will see to affect the results of their observation. |
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| True or False: One advantage of naturalistic observation is that it may offer results that are less articifical, as might be obtained in a laboratory setting. |
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| One disadvantage of naturalistic observation is |
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| A lack of control over the conditions that affect behavior |
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| The main disadvantage of the case study method is that researchers |
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| cannot generalize the results to a larger population |
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| A researcher wants to determine how most college students feel about the president of the United States. Which group provides a representative sample for this researchers study? |
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| Students selected randomly at colleges across the USA. |
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| If we know that the amont of time children spend watching violent TV is correlated with aggressive behavior in these children then we can |
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| predict that children who watch more vilent TV are like to act more aggressively. |
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| True or False: Correlation does imply causation. |
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| Which variable is the variable measured in an experiment? |
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| Using random assignment is the best way to asure that our control group and experiemental group consists of subjects who are eqaully matched. In this way, the experimenter is controlling for |
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| When neither the participants nor the experimenter knows if the participants are in the control or experimental group it is a called what kind of study? |
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| A branch of the life sciences that deals with the structure and function of neurons, nerves, and nervous tissue, especially focusing on their relationship to behivour and learning |
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| The basic cell that makes up the nervous system and that receives and sends messages within that system |
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| Branchlike structures that receive messages from other neuronss |
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| The cell body of the neuron responsibile for maintaining the life of the cell. |
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| Tubelike structure that caarries the neural message to other cells. |
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| 90% of the brain is comprised of these cells |
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| Before interpreting the heat of a cand as painful, the information about the heat must travel from the fingertips via the ________ to the brain. |
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| When information first enters the eye, it comes into contact with which part of the nervous system? |
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| True or False: The different systems of cells in the nervous system work in isolation to complete various functions involved with behavior, thought and actions. |
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| _______ was the first to theorize that the nervous system was made up of individual cells. |
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| An electrical charge or impulse that travels down the axon of a neuron is called the action ___________. |
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| The fatty substance that insulates and protects neurons, and speeds up neural messages is called __________. |
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| Neurotransmitters are released into the space between one neuron and another, which is called the _______. |
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| _____ stimulates muscles to contract. |
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| Low levels of _____ are linked to depression. |
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| Too little _____ results in Parkinsons disease. |
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| _____ controls pain when someone is hurt. |
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| Clinical depression is sometimes related to low levels of the neurotransmitter _____. |
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| The _____ is the long bundle of neurons and serves as the message 'pipeline' for the central nervous system. |
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| When the doctor taps a hammer just below your kneecap, your lower leg kicks. This is an example of _____. |
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| The central nervous system consists of the _____ and the _____. |
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| Brain and the spinal cord |
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| When someone touches the thorn on a rose and immediately pulls back, which neurons are involved in the response? |
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| Sensory, motor and interneurons |
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| When people walk, raise their hands, smell a flower or see a pretty picture they are using the _____ nervous system. |
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| The two divisions of the somatic nervous system are the _____and the _____. |
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| Motor pathway and the sensory pathway. |
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| True or False: Digestion of food and excretion of waste continues to occur during stressful situations. |
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| EEG waves that idicate a person is in a deep sleep are called _____ waves. |
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| A functional MRI (fMRI) and a PET scan both provide |
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| a way to observe the brain as it functions. |
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| The difference between an MRI and an fMRI scan is that the MRI scan shows structure whereas the fMRI scan shows |
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| changes in brain activity over time. |
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| ____ is a technique that involves measuring with an EEG and then averaging out multiple presentations of a stimulus. |
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| The part of the brain that controls life sustaining functions, such as heartbeat, breathing and swallowing is the _____. |
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| True or False: The more area devoted to a particular part of the body on the motor cortex, the more refined the movement required of this area. |
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| If a person has suffered brain damage and has difficulty understanding what people say, their own sentences are confusing to others but has no problem enunciating words this person most likely has |
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| If someone has been in an accident and now has a paralyzed left arm and an inability to recognize the left side of his visual field, this condition is called _____. |
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