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| Psychology as a science was founded by him. |
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We should study the function of consciousness |
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William James heavily influenced by Darwin Thought that |
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| The Psychologist who thought that what people do depends on their unconscious motivations and feelings |
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| The School of psych that foucuses on peoples free will and potential to grow and achieve their full potential |
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| One branch of Psych became prominent after WW1 and 2 because of the need to test military recruits and treat soliders |
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| Sigmund Freud started a school of psych called.. |
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| Biopsychologist focuses on |
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| how the brain and behavior are related |
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| What is one disadvantage of naturalistic observation?? |
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| it is difficult to carry out without being noticed by whom you are studying |
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| A cause and effect relationship can be established with.. |
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| Experimental research method |
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| Group of people used in a study |
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| School of Psychology that focused on indentifying and studying the basic elements or consciousness, such as sensation, feelings, and images. |
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make groups as similar as possible |
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| random assignment into groups is used in experimens to... |
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| The conditions, events, charachteristics or behaviors that are controlled or observed in a study is called.. |
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| What is NOT a feature of good scientific research |
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| your hypothesis should always be correct |
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The psychologist who said that psychologists should study obserable behavior rather than conscious experience |
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| An experimental procedure in which both the experimentor and the subject are unaware |
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| The cells in the nerveous system that send and recieve info are called... |
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| A temporary reversal of change between the inside and outside of a neuron is called... |
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| The difference in electrical charge between the inside and outside of a neuron that exist when a neuron is neither recieving or sending info |
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| a chemical that allows neurons to communicate with eachother |
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| The neurotransmitters that make you feel numb or in shock when you have an accident |
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| The gap between two neurons |
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| psychoactive drugs work by.. |
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| affecting the way neurotransmitters work |
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| The central nerveous system is made up of the.. |
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| Sympathetic nerveous system deals with.. |
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| An excitatory postsynaptic makes action potential more likely in the.. |
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| A Researcher should never decieve research subjects |
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| Someone that has a brain injury and then can no longer remember newly learned info has damage to the ... |
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| the part of the brain that controlls eating, drinking, sex drive, and aggression |
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| A part of the brain that is involved in sleep and dreaming is the |
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| A person whos ____ was damaged would probably die |
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| A person who experiences alot of anxiety might have an overactive.. |
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| The ____ is affected by alcohol in a person who is unable to walk in a strait line because of intoxication |
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| The psychologist who was a behaviorist said that people and animals tend to repeat behavior that was rewarded |
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| Branch of psychology that is based on the theory of natural selection and behavior is adaptive and gets passed to furture generations |
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| ______ recieves signals from neighboring neurons. |
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| A variable other than the independent variable, affects the dependant variable |
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| Part of the N. S that affects breathing and heart rate |
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| The process by which neurotransmitters are taken back up by neurons for recycling |
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| which is not a psychoactive drug |
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