Helps with controlling arousal

Influences aggression and fear

Processes memory

Master gland

Balance

Receives information from sensory, touch and body position

Producing speech

connects the two hemispheres of the brain

Controls motivational behaviors including feeding, flight or fight response and fornicating

Wrinkled part of the brain's surface where the body processes information

Makes decisions, plans, reasons and carries out behavior

Controls hearing, and language comprehension

Records the waves of electrical activity in the brain

Shows brain function by using a radioactive glucose solution

Ability of brain tissue to take on new functions, usually occurs after parts of the brain have been damaged.

The split brain procedure involves the cutting of this

Brain hemisphere associated with spatial abilities and recognizing others faces

Damage to the cerebellum would most affect the career of

Damage to the medulla would most likely result in

A person has a stroke on her occipital lobe. What might happen to her?

part of autonomic nervous, calms you down

chemical messager, released into the bloodstream, slow but long lasting

regulates blood sugar, secreting insulin

neurotransmitter that promotes (gas pedal) action potentials. Arousing or accelerating physiological

Soma

mimic molecule that binds to receptors, gains the benefit of that molecule

Psychoanalytic psychology focuses mainly on:

Who was a student of William James and the first female president of the American Psychological Association?

As the owner of a company, you want to make as much profit as possible. Happy employees will be better producers, hence, more money to be made.

What type of psychologist would you use to ensure your employees were happy on the job and producing to the best of their ability?

Charles Darwin proposed that natural selection leads to the development of characteristics most suited to the survival and reproduction of a species.

His theory has most influenced which branch of Psychology?

Humanistic psychologists focused attention on the importance of people's

The condition that exists when the probability that the findings are not due to chance

each time a study is repeated, the results are consistent.

Factors that cause differences between the experimental group and control group other than the independent variable.

The factor the researcher manipulates in a controlled experiment

The subgroup of the sample that receives the independent variable.

Division of the sample into groups so that every individual has an equal chance of being put in any group or condition.

A psychological or physical treatment given to the control group that resembles the treatment given to the experimental group, but that contains no active ingredient.

A description of the specific procedure used to determine the presence of a variable. Created so that the experiment can be replicated by others.

Research design in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the experimental group and who is in control group.

The extent to which an instrument measure what it is supposed to measure.

Correlational research where one specific group of people or person is studied in detail through interviews, file reviews, etc. Not generalizable

Research design in which participants don't know whether they are in experimental or control group.

The comparison group, the subgroup of the sample that is similar to the experimental group in every way except for the presence of the independent variable.

Obtain large samples of abilities, beliefs or behaviors through written or interview questions.

The specialist most likely to have a medical degree is a(n)

According to Abraham Maslow, the need for an individual to reach their full potential is

The " Nurture" aspect of behavior focuses on

Who established the first psychology laboratory in Germany?

After the events of 9/11, your friend suggested that the CIA and FBI should have foreseen the likelihood of this form of terrorism. According to her, all the clues were there. This perception most clearly illustrates:

A hypothesis is a prediction that is:

A correlation coefficient of +0.8 is a _______________ and suggests that as one variable ____________, the other variable ______________.

Jill wants to study the process of thinking. Which field of psychology should she choose?

Of the following, who is associated with the Gestalt school of psychology?

Psychology is considered a science mainly because it relies on direct observation. Which field of psychology supports this?

Which of the following psychologists was a structuralist?

The early school of psychology known as functionalism was developed by

Mr. Lopez believes that severe depression results primarily from an imbalanced diet and abnormal brain chemistry. Mr. Lopez favors a ________ perspective on depression.

Which approach to psychology focuses on how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures?

psychology is defined as the

The self-reflective observation of one's own sensations and feelings is called

If a researcher is studying different approaches to dieting to determine which is the most effective for weight loss, the experimenter's manipulation of dieting is the:

If you choose a sample of the population that gives each person an equal chance of participating, this would be:

Which method should a psychology researcher use if she is interested in testing whether a specific reward in a classroom situation causes students to behave better?

Which statistical measure of central tendency is most affected by extreme scores?

In a normal distribution, what percentage of the scores in the distribution falls within on standard deviation on either side of the mean?

Which of the following is used only in correlation studies?

Which of the following correlation coefficients represents the strongest relationship between two variables?

Which of the following is an example of negative correlation?

An experiment is performed to see if background music improves learning. Two groups study the same material, one while listening to music and another without music. The independent variable is

In an experiment to test the effects of hunger on aggressive behavior, aggressive behavior would be the

In a study of effects of alcohol on driving ability, the control group should be given

You psychology professor wants to describe the average score on your first psychology test. Which measure of central tendency is your professor most likely to use

Dr. Kleiman gives an exam where most of the students receive failing grades and only a few students receive high scores. When the exam scores are plotted, the distribution will be

The symmetric, bell shaped curve that represents the pattern in which many human characteristics are dispersed in the population is known as

Descriptive statistics ____, while inferential statistics ____

What is the range of the following: 12, 25, 33, 40, 80?

What is the perception of a relationship where none exists

Which part of the brain is affected during a split brain operation?

The main job of the thalamus is

Bodily sensations such as touch, pressure, and temperature are controlled in which part of the brain

As a result of her car accident, Mimi suffered damage to her Broca's area of the brain. What symptoms will she suffer as a result?

Knowing what you are touching or how hot to make the water for your shower involves which of these areas of the brain?

Wernicke's area is located in which lobe of the brain?

Which part of the neuron serves as the protective coating?

Another name for the cell body of the neuron is

The process by which a tiny electrical current is generated when the positive sodium ions rush inside the axon, causing the inside of the axon to reverse its charge is called

Neurons that carry information away from the spinal cord to produce responses in various muscles or organs throughout the body are called

The space between the dendrites of one neuron and the terminal buttons of another is the

Which type of scan uses X-ray technology to examine the structure of the brain?

An extra chromosome on the 21st pair is associated with

Which part of the brain is most important in regulating an animal's sex drive?

The part of the brain most responsible for making decisions is the

Blindness could result from damage to which cortex and lobe of the brain?

Which chemicals pass across the synaptic gap and increase the possibility the next neuron in the chain will fire?

Antidepressants drugs like Prozac are often used to treat mood disorders. According to what you know about their function, which neurotransmitter system do these types of drugs try to affect

When researchers refer to brain plasticity, they are talking about

The limbic system plays an important role in

Which of the following has been linked to a deficit of dopamine?