Psy 2301 Unit 1 Assignment

PSYC 2301-Introduction to Psychology
Unit 1 Assignment
Bobbi Johnson

1. The school of psychology founded by John B. Watson, _Behaviorism_____________________, views observable, measurable behavior as the appropriate subject matter for psychology and emphasizes the key role of environment as a determinant of behavior.
2. _Psychoanalysis_____________________ is the term that Freud used for both his theory of personality and his therapy for the treatment of psychological disorders; the unconscious is the primary focus of psychoanalytic theory.
3. Proponents of ______Evolutionary psychology__________________study how humans have adapted the behaviors required for survival in the face of environmental pressures over the long course of evolution.
4.
Researchers use the ____Correlation Method____________________ to establish the degree of relationship between two characteristics, events, or behaviors.
5. In an experiment, the ___Dependent Variable _____________________ is the factor or condition that is measured at the end of the study and is presumed to vary as a result of the manipulations of the independent variable(s).
6. The ___Synapse ____________ is the junction where the axon of a sending neuron communicates with a receiving neuron across the synaptic cleft.
7. The right and left halves of the cerebrum, covered by the cerebral cortex and connected by the corpus callosum, are called the __Cerebral Hemispheres
_____.
8. A person with _Broca's Area_________________ has an impairment of the physical ability to produce speech sounds, or in extreme cases an inability to speak at all that is caused by damage to Broca’s area.
9. A substance manufactured and released in one part of the body that affects other parts of the body is called a ___Hormone ______________.
10. The ___Hippocampus___________ is a structure in the limbic system that plays an important role in emotion, particularly in response to aversive stimuli.
11. __Blind Spot _________ is the area in the retina where the axons of the three layers of retinal cells exit the eye to form the optic nerve.
12. ___Synethesia______________ is the disorder in which the signals from the various sensory organs are processed in the wrong cortical areas.
13. The ability to perceive the world in three dimensions is called __Depth Perception_____________________.
14. Cues for perceiving depth based on one eye only is called ______Monocular Cues_________________.
15. ___Parapsyschology_________________ is the study of ESP, ghosts, and other subjects that do not normally fall into the realm of ordinary psychology.
16. A _Psychoactive Drug______________ alters normal mental functioning-mood, perception, or thought; called a controlled substance if used medically.
17. Drugs that decrease activity in the central nervous system, slow down bodily functions, and reduce sensitivity to outside stimulation belong to the __Depressants_____________ category of drugs.
18. ____Consciousness_______________________ is an awareness of one’s own perceptions, thoughts, feelings, sensations, and external environment.
19. The deepest stage of NREM sleep, characterized by an EEG pattern of more than 50% delta waves, is ___Stage 4 Sleep _____________________.
20. The ____Restorative Theory Of Sleep__________________ theory of sleep argues that the function of sleep is to restore body and mind.