A substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control in experimentation.
What is a placebo?
100
A cell whose main purpose is to send and receive messages between the brain and other parts of the body.
What is a neuron?
100
An approach in perception wherein there is a progression from the individual elements to the whole.
What is bottom-up processing?
100
Our awareness of various cognitive processes, such as sleeping, dreaming, concentrating, and making decisions; typically used to describe being alert
What is consciousness?
100
Learning wherein a response, normally elicited by one stimulus, is taught to respond to another, normally neutral, stimulus
What is classical conditioning?
200
Non-experimental method in which questions are asked to subjects.
What is a Survey?
200
A layer of fatty tissue that covers around the axon and enables greater transmission speed of neural impulses.
What is Myelin Sheath?
200
Visual receptor cells that are able to distinguish color.
What are cones?
200
A mental process where a person disconnects from their thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity
What is dissociation?
200
A natural response that occurs when a stimulus is presented.
What is an unconditioned response?
300
People's tendency upon hearing about research findings to think that they knew it all along
What is Hindsight Bias?
300
A small structure in the forebrain that controls metabolic functions: body temp, hunger, thirst, endocrine system, libido.
What is the hypothalamus?
300
Structure in the inner ear lined with tiny hairs which act as motion sensors and help maintain balance.
What are the semicircular canals?
300
The actual, literal content and storyline of the dream
What is the manifest content?
300
The removal of an unpleasant stimulus that increases the likelihood that behavior will continue.
What is negative reinforcement?
400
A measure of variability that indicates the average difference between the sources and their mean
What is the Standard Deviation?
400
Any chemical or drug that binds to receptors in the brain and causes a reaction.
What is an agonist?
400
Gestalt principles of organization claim that we tend to organize clusters of sensation into this form.
What is a meaningful whole?
400
When people have been prevented from experiencing REM, they take less time than usual to attain the REM state. This process of falling into REM much more quickly is called this:
What is REM rebound?
400
Learning that occurs without active effort or that is not immediate in behavior and can be used when needed.
What is Latent Learning?
500
These are the measures of central tendency.
What are mean, median, and mode?
500
This is purpose of efferent neurons.
What is in charge of taking messages from the brain to muscles and organs.
500
The Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory states this:
The retina contains three basic types of cones (blue, red, and green) and that the many colors we see are a result of combinations from these three cones.
500
These are the three classes of psychoactive drugs.
What are stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens?
500
Although he employed operant techniques in his child-rearing advice, he was most known for expanding the field of classical conditioning with his work.