This research technique involves observation of one particular person in depth to reveal universal principles....
What is Case Study?
Anxiety disorder in which an irrational fear causes the person to avoid some object, activity or situation
What is a Phobia?
Part of the eye that sends neural impulses from the eye to the brain
What is the Optic Nerve?
The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus
What is Selective Attention?
The approach that focuses on the growth potential of healthy people and their environmental influences.
What is Behaviorism?
A graphed cluster of dots to represent the values of two variables is known as....
What is a Scatter Plot?
Somatoform disorder in which people interpret normal sensations as symptoms of a dreaded disease.
What is Hypochondriasis?
Part of the inner ear that makes sound waves trigger nerve impulses
What is the Cochlea?
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
What is Inattentional Blindness?
Approach that focuses on how the brain and body enable emotions and experiences is known as...
What is Neuroscience?
If one perceives a relationship between two things when no correlation exists, a person believes there is an....
What is an Illusory Correlation?
This disorder usually show a lack of conscience for wrongdoing even to those close to you, usually end up becoming criminals as they begin to lie, steal, fight, or display unrestrained sexual behavior
What is Anti-Social Personality Disorder?
Process in which the lens changes its curvature to focus on near and far objects
What is Accommodation?
Failing to notice changes in the environment
What is Change Blindness?
The psychological perspective used to treat depression.
What is the Cognitive Perspective?
A variable other than the independent variable that may produce an effect in an experiment is called the...
What s the Confounding Variable?
The excessive amount of dopamine leads to this disorder
What is Schizophrenia?
Before traveling through the hammer, anvil, and stirrup, the vibration travels though what....
What is the Eardrum?
The biological clock that occur on a 24 hour cycle
What is Circadian Rhythm?
The psychological perspective used to raise the clients self-awareness and their understanding of their behavior.
What is the Psychodynamic Perspective?
A statistical statement of the likelihood an obtained result occurred by chance is known as....
What is Statistical Significance?
One or more episodes of amnesia in which an individual cannot recall some or all of his/her past
What is Dissociative Fugue?
These are activated when light energy triggers chemical changes that send neural signals
What is Ganglion Cells?
A split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others
What is Dissociation?
This type of psychology emphasizes environmental influences on peoples potential...
What is Humanistic Psychology?