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Answers to Jeopardy Test 1
Founding Fathers
100 Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
He formally founded the first psychological laboratory in 1879, in Leipzig, Germany.
200 Who is William James?
He emphasized the FUNCTION or purpose of behavior, as opposed to its analysis and description.
300 Who is Charles Darwin?
He was the first to formulate the principle of natural selection.
400 Who is Sigmund Freud?
His ideas evolved into a broad theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy, both of which became known as psychoanalysis.
500 Who is EB Titchener?
He was a student of Wundts, who gave Wundts approach the title of structuralism.
100 What is the hippocampus?
A part of the limbic system that has been called the gateway to memory, because it enables us to form new memories, in particular memories about events.
200 What is the corpus callosum?
The bundle of nerve fibers connecting the two cerebral hemispheres.
300 What are the two main components of the peripheral nervous system?
The somatic and autonomic nervous systems.
400 What is the hypothalamus?
A brain structure involved in emotions and drives vital to survival, such as fear, hunger, thirst and reproduction; it regulates the autonomic nervous system.
500 What are the lobes of the cortex?
Occipital, Parietal, Temporal, and Frontal.
Types of Psychologists
100 Who are Experimental Psychologists?
They conduct laboratory studies of learning, motivation, emotion, sensation and perception, physiology and cognition.
200 Who are educational psychologists?
They study psychological principles that explain learning and search for ways to improve educational systems.
300 Who are Developmental psychologists?
They study how people change and grow over time physically, mentally, and socially.
400 Who are industrial/organizational psychologists?
They study behavior in the workplace. They are concerned with group decision making, employee moral, work motivation, productivity, job stress, personnel selection, marketing strategies, equipment design and many other issues.
500 Who are psychometric psychologists?
They design and evaluate tests of mental abilities, aptitudes, interests and personality.
100 What is a hypothesis?
A statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena; specifies relationships among events or variables that are empirically tested.
200 What are descriptive methods?
Methods that yield descriptions of behaviors but not necessarily causal explanations.
300 What is validity?
The ability of a test to measure what it was designed to measure.
400 What is a representative sample?
A group of subjects, selected from a population for study, which matches that population on important characteristics such as age and sex.
500 What are significance tests?
Statistical tests that show how likely it is that a studys results occurred merely by chance.
100 What is a language acquisition device?
According to many psycholinguists, an innate mental module that allows young children to develop language of they are exposed to an adequate sampling of conversation.
200 What is the critical period?
Either the first few years of life, or possibly the first decade, where children need exposure to language and opportunities to practice their emerging linguistic skills in conversations with others.
300 What is sociobiology?
An interdisciplinary field that emphasizes evolutionary explanations of social behavior in animals, including human beings.
400 What is heritability?
A statistical estimate of the proportion of the total variance in some trait that is attributable to genetic differences among individuals within a group.
500 What are genetic markers?
A segment of DNA that varies among individuals, has a known location on a chromosome, and can function as a genetic landmark for a gene involved in a physical or mental condition.
100 What is a neurotransmitter?
A chemical substance that is released by a transmitting neuron at the synapse and that alters the activity of a receiving neuron.
200 What is serotonin?
It affects neurons involved in sleep, appetite, sensory perception, temperature regulation, pain suppression and mood.
300 What are sex hormones?
Hormones that regulate the development and functioning of reproductive organs and that stimulate the development of male and female sexual characteristics; they include androgens, estrogens, and progesterone.
400 What is GABA?
It functions as the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain.
500 What are techniques to map the brain?