Exam 1 (Chapters 1-4) Flashcards
Who was the founder of psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
Who was the Father of American psychology?
William James
What is a tentative explanation or educated guess?
hypothesis
Who was the father of behaviorism?
John Watson
What theory of personality is used most often in research now?
Five Factor theory or Big Five (OCEAN)
Who created the hierarchy of needs?
Abraham Maslow
What is the highest level of the hierarchy of needs?
self-actualization
A correlation means one thing causes another. True or false?
False
What is an in-depth, detailed examination of a particular case?
case study
What is an experiment where the participants do not know to which group they have been assigned?
single-blind
What is it called when someone has improvement from a medication that has no therapeutic value?
placebo effect
What kind of experiment studies a group for several years?
longitudinal
What is the ability to get the same consistent result from a test?
reliability
What protects the axon and speeds up transmission of signals?
myelin sheath
What are the two major divisions of the nervous system?
central and peripheral
What part of the brain controls emotion, reasoning and memory?
cerebral cortex
What part of the brain is responsible for processing hearing?
temporal lobe
What part of the brain is responsible for processing vision?
occipital lobe
Which sense is not routed through the thalamus?
smell
Transmitter involved in mood, reward and addiction:
dopamine
Nervous system is to neurotransmitters as endocrine system is to ________.
hormones
Which gland is the master gland?
pituitary
Which gland produces melatonin?
pineal
If you are aware of what is happening in your dream, you are experiencing what?
lucid dream
What disorder causes someone, usually children, to sit up and start screaming in their sleep but not wake up?
sleep terror
If I need to take increasing amounts of a drug to get the same effect as the first time I took it, I have developed what?
tolerance
If I watch a classroom to look for behaviors that indicate poor attention, I am doing what type of study?
natural observation
The amount of time spent studying and the grade you get on a test probably has what kind of correlation?
positive
A correlation of +0.5 is stronger than a correlation of -0.85. True or false?
false
Which part of the nervous system is associated with the fight or flight response?
sympathetic
