C 180(A) - Intro to Psychology (WGU), Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, graded A+

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C 180(A) - Intro to Psychology (WGU), Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, graded A+ Biological Foundations - ✔✔-processes, in the brain, hormones and DNA, that influences thoughts and beh ... aviors. Mental Life - ✔✔-thought process of people, how they solve problems, interact with others, or recall past events. Change - ✔✔-how individuals change mentally, emotionally, and socially as they age. Self and others - ✔✔-how individuals come to regard or judge themselves, and how they relate to other individuals. Potential & Dysfunction - ✔✔-Variations in perception, cognition and emotions, to define what is normal, exceptional, and what is dysfunctional. Psychologist Study - ✔✔-Relationship among specific parts of a theory. Any attribute that can assume different values among different people or across different times of places. Conceptual Variable - ✔✔-abstract ideas. Measured Variable - ✔✔-numbers that represent the conceptual variables. Empirical Research - ✔✔-Verifiable evidence from a systematic collection and analysis of data that has been objectively observed, measured, and undergone experimentation. Basic Research - ✔✔-answers fundamental questions about behavior. Applied Reasearch - ✔✔-inveestigates issues that have implications for everyday life and provides solutions to everyday problems. Research Design - ✔✔-method a researcher uses to collect, analyze, and interpret data. Descriptive Research - ✔✔-designed to provide a snapshot of the current state of affairs. Correlational Research - ✔✔-designed to discover relationships among variables and to allow the prediction of future events from present knowledge. Experimental Research - ✔✔-random assignment of research participants into two groups. Manipulation of a given experience for one group while the other is not manipulated. Experimental Group - ✔✔-receive manipulation. Control Group - ✔✔-does not receive manipulation. Sample - ✔✔-people chosen to participate in research. Population - ✔✔-all the people that the researcher wants to know about. Independent Variable - ✔✔-the causing variable that is created (manipulated) by the experimenter. Dependent Variable - ✔✔-measured variable that is expected to be influenced by the experimental manipulation. Correlational Research - ✔✔-measuring the relationship between or among two or more relevant variables. Positive Correlation - ✔✔-individuals who have above-average values for one variable also tend to have above-average values for the other variable Negative Correlation - ✔✔-above-average values for one variable tend to be associated with belowaverage values for the other variable Cell Body (Soma) - ✔✔-Contains the nucleus of the cell and keeps the cell active. Dendrites - ✔✔-Treelike fiber, collects information from other cells and sends the information to the Soma. Axon - ✔✔-Transmits information away from the cell body toward other neurons or to the muscles and glands. Myelin Sheath - ✔✔-Layer of fatty tissue that covers the axon of some neurons and helps speed neural impulses. Neurotransmitter - ✔✔-The body's chemical messengers. Chemical that relays signals across the synapses between neurons. Cerebellum - ✔✔-Little brain. Coordinates voluntary movement. Hypothalamus - ✔✔-Contains a number of small areas that perform a variety of functions: regulate body temperature, hunger, thirst, sex drive, creates feelings of pleasure when needs are satisfied. Link between nervous and endocrine system. Thalamus - ✔✔-Egg shaped. Applies more filtering to the sensory information coming from the spine and through reticular formation, it relays some of the remaining signals to the higher brain levels. Corpus callosum - ✔✔-Connects the two halves of the brain and support communication between them. Hippocampus - ✔✔-Two horns. Stores information in long-term memory. Frontal lobe - ✔✔-(behind the forehead) Thinking, planning, memory, and judgment. Parietal lobe - ✔✔-(middle to back of skull) Processes information about touch. Temporal lobe - ✔✔-(between the ears) Hearing and language. Occipital lobe - ✔✔-(very back of the skull) Visual information. Pancreas - ✔✔-Secrets hormones designed to keep the body supplied with fuel to produce and maintain stores of energy. Testes - ✔✔-Produce sex hormones, testosterone, sperm. Ovaries - ✔✔-Produce sex hormones, estrogen, eggs, progesterone. Pituitary Gland - ✔✔-Controlling the body's growth, secrets hormones that signal the ovaries and testes to make sex hormones, control ovulation and menstrual cycle. Senses - ✔✔-systems we have that allow us to detect information and transform energy into neural impulses. Perception - ✔✔-genetically transmitted knowledge and k [Show More]

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