Unit 0 Methodology Vocabulary

What is the term for the historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth?

• humanistic psychology

• behaviorism

• psychoanalysis

• cognitive psychology

What is the science of behavior and mental processes called?

• psychology

• biology

• sociology

• anthropology

What is the branch of psychology that studies the links between biological (including neuroscience and behavior genetics) and psychological processes?

• biological psychology

• cognitive psychology

• social psychology

• developmental psychology

What is the study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selection called?

• evolutionary psychology

• cognitive psychology

• behaviorism

• psychoanalysis

What branch of psychology studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders?

• psychodynamic psychology

• behavioral psychology

• cognitive psychology

• humanistic psychology

What is the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning called?

• behavioral psychology

• cognitive neuroscience

• psychoanalysis

• humanistic psychology

What is the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating called?

• cognitive psychology

• behavioral economics

• neuroanatomy

• social anthropology

What is the study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking called?

• social-cultural psychology

• behavioral neuroscience

• cognitive psychology

• evolutionary psychology

What is the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it called?

• hindsight bias

• confirmation bias

• availability heuristic

• anchoring bias

What is the experimental factor that is manipulated--the variable whose effect is being studied called?

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• control variable

• extraneous variable