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Development Psychology - correct answer Growth and change from conception until death. Biopsychology - correct answer Chemical imbalance. Organizational Psychology - correct answer Worker production. Educational Psychology - correct answer Classroom teaching strategies. Sports Psychology - correct answer Competitive drive. Cognitive Psychology - correct answer Study of memory. Forensic Psychology - correct answer Study of criminal behavior. What was the ancient "cure" for mental illness that involved chipping away pieces of a skull to allow evil spirits to escape? - correct answer Trephination. Who is considered the Father of Psychology and created the first psychology lab in 1879? - correct answer Wilhelm Wundt. Temporal Lobe - correct answer A region of the cerebral cortex responsible for hearing and language. Occipital Lobe - correct answer A region of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information. Parietal Lobe - correct answer A region of the cerebral cortex whose functions include processing information about touch. Frontal Lobe - correct answer A region of the cerebral cortex that has specialized areas for movement, abstract thinking, planning, memory, and judgement Which current psychological perspective is associated with how people think about the world? - correct answer Cognitive perspective. Which current psychological perspective is associated with free will and self-fulfillment? - correct answer Humanistic perspective. Which current psychological perspective is associated with inner and unconscious conflicts? - correct answer Psychodynamic perspective. Psychologists should worry only about behavior that is directly observable. Which psychological perspective does this statement reflect? - correct answer Behavioral perspective. Introspection is most closely associated with which psychological perspective? - correct answer Structuralism. From the neuroscientific (biopsychological) perspective, a psychologist studying Alzheimer's disease would be interested in _____. - correct answer Biological causes. Millie is twelve years old, and she recently began a growth spurt. We might expect that her _____ is more active than normal. - correct answer Pituitary gland. A split-brain patient is one... - correct answer Whose corpus callosum has been surgically cut to stop seizures. Serotonin - correct answer A neurotransmitter that is often associated with depression and suicide. Broca's Area - correct answer The language problem that is most purely focused on "tip of the tongue" speaking disabilities. A professor wishes to identify the relationship between amount of time spent studying and grades earned in the psychology course. What type of research will apply? - correct answer Correlation. Which of the following research strategies would provide the most effective way of demonstrating that the observation of violence on television causes children to act aggressively? - correct answer Experimental research. In a test of the effects of cigarette smoking on physical health and development, groups of monkeys were raised in either a smoke-free or smoke-infested environment. Monkeys in the smoke-infested environment were in the ______________________ group. - correct answer Dependent variable. Hypothesis - correct answer A scientific description or explanation that remains tentative until it has been adequately tested. A major advantage of the _______________________________ method is that a cause and effect relationship can be identified. - correct answer Scientific. Select the sequence indicating the normal flow of information in a nerve cell: - correct answer Dendrites, soma, axon, synapse. Neurotransmitters - correct answer The chemical messengers released into the spatial junctions between neurons. Which research method would be most appropriate for investigating attitudes about abortion? - correct answer Survey. Professor Oberly carefully monitors and records the behaviors of children on school playgrounds in order to tract the development of their physical skills. Professor Oberly is most clearly engaged in: - correct answer Naturalistic observation research. What are the 2 parts of the peripheral nervous system? - correct answer Somatic nervous system Autonomic nervous system What are the goals of psychology? - correct answer Describe, explain, predict, and control behavi