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A.P. PSYCHOLOGY
UNIT 1 TEST REVIEW
We believe that all people are striving to increase their self-esteem and ultimately self-actualize
Humanist
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
I am a part of the neuron, I cover the axon. I am white and the neurons call me “fatty”
Myelin
I am part of the neuron that looks like tree roots
Dendrites
I am part of the neuron that the message travels on
Axon
I am part of the neuron that directs synthesis of the neurotransmitter and proteins
Soma / Cell body
I reformed mental health in the 19h century. Because of my work, the mentally ill got better treatment.
Dorthea Dix
I am the father of Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
I penned “Principles of Psychology” at the end of the 19th century and started the school of funtionalism
William James
I founded the first school of thought, structuralism, thus making Psychology a separate social science
Wilhelm Wundt
This approach focuses on the humans ability to combine, transform, and recall information
Cognitive
I am used to determine if two variables are
related
Correlation Coefficientr =+1 r = -1
I am used to plot results of research & make the results visual
Scatterplot
If the mean is less (-) than the median, I am this kind of frequency polygon
Negatively Skewed
I am a research method that allows an in depth look a phenomena
Case Study
All the individuals in the group to which the study applies
Population
During the research process this can be achieved by putting all of names in a hat and picking out a specified number of names
Random selection
A bar graph from the frequency distribution
Histogram
You find me by subtracting the largest score minus the smallest score
range
The lack of random assignment, of subjects to control or experimental groups, weakens my results
Quasi- Experiment
The measure of the average difference between each score and the mean of the data set
Standard Deviation
The study of how biological processes,
especially activity in the brain & nervous system ,
relate to behavior
Biopsychology
All you do , think, or feel is because of us, our population per body is well over 100 billion
Neurons
Einstein had really deep, pronounced ones
Corticalization
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Gestalt Psychology
We three are the behaviorists
Pavlov Skinner & Watson
I believe humans are motivated by our
unconscious mind, I call it the Id.
Freud
We agree with some of Freud’s theories
Adler, Horney, Jung and Erikson
I am in charge of analytical thought, logic, language, science and
math
Left Hemisphere
Besides Wundt, we too are Structuralists
G. Stanley Hall & Edward Titchener
I am the master gland
Pituitary Gland
I help you maintain balance
Cerebellum
I am a lobe, I contain the somatosensory cortex and help you feel things, like heat on your finger tips
Parietal Lobe
Lack of me is associated with Parkinson’s diesease
Dopamine
I am used to study developmental changes, I am costly to run and risk loosing subjects overtime
Longitudinal Studies
To relieve epilepsy I am cut
Corpus Callosum
Damage to the Broca’s Area causes me
Aphasia
I make up your Central Nervous System
Brain and Spine
I activate the body for fight or flight and am part of the autonomic nervous system
Sympathetic Nervous System
Another name for “mental blindness”
Agnosia
I make up 4/5th of the brain’s weight.
Cerebrum
602 × 401 - cerebrumfunction.net
I am the only research method that can
establish cause and effect
Experimental
I am the variable the researcher manipulates
Independent Variable
Neither the researcher nor the subject know whether the participants are in the control or the experimental group
Double-Blind
I analyze the results of many research findings and compute the stats of all the findings. I will give you a more comprehensive overview of any given topic.
Meta-Analysis
I will happen when you are in a control group, but you think
you are in the experimental group
Placebo Effect
I am the hemisphere used to recognize faces
and patterns
Right Hemisphere
I am the hemisphere used for art and
creativity
Right Hemisphere
I am the hemisphere used to deceiver
language
Left Hemisphere
I am the most frequently occurring numbers in a
set of frequency distributions
Mode