Unit 1: Research Methods & History
Unit 2: Neuroscience & Biological Research
Unit 3: Sensation & Perception
Unit 4: States of Consciousness
Unit 5: Learning & Cognitions
100
Genetics; Inborn
What is Nature?
100
A nerve cell
What is Neuron?
100
Visual tendency to create continuous figures
What is continuity?
100
The awareness of ourselves and our environment.
What is consciousness?
100
I created Classical Conditioning
Who is Ivan Pavlov?/ Who is Pavlov?
200
Environment
What is Nurture?
200
Controls the Pituitary gland and Endocrine System
What is the Hypothalamus?
200
Chemical signals that often influence animals sexual responses, alerts animals to danger and territorial boundaries
What are Pheromones?
200
Frequent problem with falling asleep or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
200
Negative consequence after undesired behavior is shown, makes behavior less likely to happen
What is Positive Punishment?
300
I created natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
300
Responsible for receiving auditory information
What is the Temporal Lobe?
300
Tympanic membrane, hammer/anvil/stirrup, cochlea, basilar membrane, auditory nerve
How does a message travel through the ear?
300
Type of slow brain wave that occurs during deep sleep.
What is a Delta wave?
300
Experiment putting children in a room with toys to see how they would treat a certain one after seeing how an adult with it
What is the Bobo Doll Experiment?
400
A doctor gives a sugar pill to a patient and states it will help, The patient believes it will help
What is the Placebo Effect?
400
All or Nothing
How does Action Potential work?
400
Part of the brain the controls the sensory input; 5 senses
What is the Parietal Lobe?
400
A sleep stage characterized by quick eye movements and vivid dreams.
What is REM sleep?
400
Proposes that memory fades due to time
What is Decay Theory?
500
Focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function, and how they help us survive
What is Structuralism?/ What is Functionalism?
500
Sensor, Motor, Relay
What are the three types of neurons?
500
Example: Looking for a friend’s face in a crowd
What is an example of top down processing contributing to perception?
500
A person's inability to remember events that occurred while they were hypnotized.
What is posthypnotic amnesia?
500
Smallest unit in a language that carries meaning
What is a Morpheme?
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