Def 20 (#1)
In an experiment, this is a testable prediction about that experiments outcome.
Hypothesis
The name for chemicals that help in neurotransmission and cause us to feel happy, sad, alert, etc.
neurochemicals or Neurotransmitters
The name for drugs that can alter and change moods or perceptions
Psychoactive Drugs
Which is memory involved in automatic motor movement such as still knowing how to ride a bike after years of no skill use.
Procedural Memory
This is a sudden realization of a problem’s solution.
Insight
Drugs that excite neural activity and speed up body functions.
Stimulants
Studies which focus on unhindered observation of a natural environment. No interference.
Naturalistic Observation
Part of the nerve cell that releases neurochemicals in order for the signal to jump to the next neuron.
Synapses
Contains the cardiac, respiratory, vomiting and vasomotor centers and therefore deals with the autonomic functions of breathing, heart rate and blood pressure.
Medulla
This is a state of equilibrium, or balance, in which biological conditions (such as body temperature) are maintained at optimal levels.
Homeostasis
In an experiment, this is the variable or variables that are not accounted for which may end of impacting the results of your study.
Confounding Variable(s)
The encoding of information that requires attention and concerted effort.
Effortful Processing
Studies that attempt to discover if one factor causes another as they often come in tandem or together.
Correlation Study
The momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli, a picture-image memory lasting no more than a few seconds
Iconic Memory
This is when one expands the number of possible problem solutions.
Divergent Thinking
This is the term used to describe self-testing recall as practice is more effective than re-reading or cramming.
Testing Effect
In an experiment, this is the group that receives the treatment or is manipulated within the study.
Experimental Group
The measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier
Recall
This is the tendency to be more confident than correct.
This field of study examines factors such as stress, diet, and drugs or chemicals that can act as activators or deactivators, and change a gene’s expression
Epigenetics
Process in which neurotransmission at the synapse sends neurochemicals back to the original neuron after activating receptors.
Reuptake
Short-term memory that focuses on conscious, active processing of information and of information retrieved from long-term memory. People greater in age posses more of these experiences to pull from within their long-term memory
Working Memory
Part of the nerve cell that receives the electrochemical signals.
Dendrites
Type of longitudinal study, these studies compare pairs of persons to assess genetic and environmental influences on behavior
Adoption Studies
This type of intelligence has well-defined problems with a single right answer.
Analytical intelligence
This Intelligence is the natural ability to learn quickly, adapt, understand concepts/skills, problem solve and is a measure of one’s IQ. This ability decays as we age beyond our late teens and early twenties
Fluid Intelligence
The process in which the brain can slowly create small amounts of new neurons
Neurogenesis
This is the incorporation of misleading information into one’s memory of an account (especially vivid ones).
Misinformation Effect
This type of intelligence is required for everyday tasks, it is ill-defined and offers multiple solutions with examples such as managing people, relationships, businesses, etc.
Practical Intelligence
Encoding of information semantically, based on the meaning of the word, its context, or its significance which tends to yield the best retention.
Deep Processing
The brain’s ability to change across one’s life or mend itself after damage by developing new or alternative neural pathways from existing neurons
Plasticity
The speed at which one can interpret and act on information.
Processing Speed
Roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory, and in spatial memory that enables navigation
Hippocampus
This is the tendency to remember the names or information at the beginning or end of a list.
Serial Position
Participants are asked to find similarities in words, as well as describe and explain solutions & problems verbally rather than through reading or writing on paper.
Verbal Measures