Intro to Psych
This key event is considered a founding event of psychology
What is Wilhem Wundt opening the first psychology lab?
These sensory receptors are responsible for color in the retinas.
What are cones?
The part of a neuron that "receives the call".
What are dendrites?
After we calm down from a stressful event, the activation of this specific nervous system helps us rest and digest
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
What is the frontal lobe?
This perspective in psychology focuses human growth and seeing the good in people.
What is the humanistic perspective?
Sophia is attempting to read a menu in a dimly lit restaurant. Sophia uses this strategy to employ her rods to better decipher the menu items.
What is looking at the margins of the menu?
These neurotransmitters are our internal pain relief moderators.
What are endorphins?
This kind of stress is considered a positive type of stress
What is eustress?
We can experience hypnagogic hallucinations during which phase of sleep
What is stage N1?
We talked about three main mistakes in thinking that humans can make. Name all three.
What is perceiving patterns in random events, hindsight bias, and overconfidence?
The optical illusion of a young woman/old woman helped us understand what concept of perception.
What is perceptual set?
What is the hippocampus?
The stress response of general adaptation syndrome has three phases and they are
What is alarm, resistance, and exhaustion?
Automatic processing is defined as
What is taking in information with little or no conscious effort?
If there is a weak to no relationship between two variables, then the correlation coefficient would be:
What is zero (0)?
Nociceptors respond to
What is pain?
Raven is stuck in a traffic jam and is late to work. She is extremely stressed out because this is her third time being late in the last week and she knows her boss will be angry. It is likely that her endocrine system is releasing
What is cortisol?
One's initial assessment of an event as challenging or stressful is called
What is primary appraisal?
People can vary in their depths of consciousness. This is called
What is the spectrum of consciousness?
Mahala wants to study students by observing their behaviors in the library while different types of music is being played in the building and if they talk or study more. What is her psychological perspective?
What is behavioral?
Nadia, who has worked at a coffee shop for several years and no longer notices the strong smell of the coffee beans. They are experiencing what phenomenon?
What is sensory adaptation?
This specific area of the brain helps us recognize faces.
This kind of coping focuses on making ourselves feel better in the moment by tending to our feelings about an event/situation
What is emotion-focused coping?
This drug causes serotonin to "dump" in the brain but can also lead to depression and difficulty in planning.
What is ecstasy (MDMA)?