Psychology Chapter 1,2, and 3

Which perspective focuses on free will and self-actualization? Psychoanalysis Humanism Cognitive perspective Behaviorism

Who claimed that behavior is affected by reinforcement? William James Sigmund Freud B. F. Skinner Wilhelm Wundt

A variable that the experimenter manipulates is called an? Coefficient of correlation Dependent variable Control Condition Independent Variable

Pavlov's research demonstrated that?

As a project for a psychology course a student correlated weight and intelligence scores for 250 students. The computed correlation coefficient was.00. What did the scatter plot look like?

Which treatment approach did Sigmund Freud develop for treating his patients?

The belief that the unconscious mind has an influence on ones behavior is part of what early field of psychology?

A correlation coefficient is represented by the symbol

According to present research on psychologists 34% are in the _____ subfield of psychology

How our minds help us adapt to the world around us was a primary question addressed by which early movement of psychology?

"The whole is greater than the sum of the parts" statement associated with the ________ perspective

A correlation coefficient represents two things ___ and ____

What is one of the major reasons the psychologists use operational definitions?

The goals of psychology are to ____?

"All or none" is the principle stating that ________.

After a head injury a person reports that she is unable to see, although her eyes are uninjured. A doctor would suspect an injury in the ________ lobe.

Eating, drinking, sexual behavior, sleeping, and temperature control are most strongly influenced by the ________.

Endocrine glands______

GABA functions as

How acetylcholine removed from the synapse

If you have a problem remembering things that happened a year ago, doctors might check for damage to the ________ area of the brain.

Involuntary muscles are controlled by the ________ nervous system.

Jerry loves the smell of the grass after it rains. This is a result of his ________ which have received signals from neurons in his sinus cavity.

Neurons that carry information from the senses to the spinal cord are called ________.

Pain-controlling chemicals in the body are called____

Since Norma is a split-brain patient we can infer that she likely has a history of

The ________ is a structure in the brain stem responsible for life-sustaining functions, such as breathing and heart rate.

The area of the fontal lobe that is devoted to the production of fluent speech is

The branch of the autonomic nervous system that restores the body to normal functioning after arousal and is responsible for day-to-day functioning of the organs and glands is called the ________.

The branchlike structures that receive messages from other neurons are called____

The charge that a neuron at rest maintains is due to the presence of a high number of ________ charged ions inside the neuron's membrane.

The outermost part of the brain that is made up of tightly packed neurons and is only a tenth of an inch thick is called the ________.

The thick band of neurons that connects the right and left cerebral hemispheres is called the ________.

Function of myelin?

According to the opponent-process theory of color vision, the correct pairings of opposite colors are ________.

Activation of the receptors by stimuli is called

Illusion

Analyzing smaller features and building up to a complete perception is called

Continuity

Each retina of the eye has about _____ million rods

Ernest weber provided formulation that is used to determine the

Figure-ground concern

If an artist were to blend red, green, and blue lights together by focusing lights of those three colors on one common spot, the result would look ________.

If you were to take a sparkler at a July 4th picnic and "draw" your name in the air, your ability to see the light trail after the initial stimulus is facilitated by:

In the process known as ________, sensory receptors become less sensitive to repeated presentations of the same stimulus.

Nerve hearing impairment can be best treated with

Perception is the

Pitch is to frequency as

Somasthetic senses involve all of the following except ________.

The ability to see the world in three dimensions is called

the best explanation of the moon illusion is

The average threshold for human vision is a candle flame seen from ____ on a dark clear night

The fovea is made up of

The lowest stimulus intensity required for detection is the ________ and the smallest noticeable difference between a standard stimulus intensity and another stimulus value is the ________.

What are the hammer anvil and stirrup

the scientific study of behavior and mental processes

Outward or overt actions and reactions

internal, covert activity of our minds

focused on the structure or basic elements of the mind

Margaret Washburn

how the mind allows people to adapt live work and play

The science of behavior the focuses on observable behavior only must be directly seen and measured

modern version of psychoanalysis