Scientists are able to see changes in the brain as it processes information by means of this brain imagining tool.
What is the PET Scan?
100
This type of information processing begins with sensory receptors and works towards the brain's integration of sensory information to construct perceptions.
What is bottom-up processing?
100
Nightmares most frequently occur during this stage of sleep.
What is REM sleep?
100
Once Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate to the sound of a bell, the bell became this.
What is a conditioned stimulus?
200
This research method is the most appropriate for investigating the relationship between political party membership and attitude toward the death penalty.
What is the survey?
200
This part of the brain is most closely associated with maintaining balance and the coordination of complex sequences of movements.
What is cerebellum?
200
This is the region of the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye so there are no receptor cells.
What is the blind spot?
200
This category of psychoactive drug depress the central nervous system, relieve pain, and induce feelings of euphoria.
What is narcotics?
200
These are the three stages of Atkinson-Shiffrin process of memory.
What is sensory, short-term, and long-term memory?
300
Which psychological approach is most concerned with the importance of encoding, storing, and retrieving information?
What is Cognitive Psychologists?
300
This gland interacts most directly with all the other glands to help regulate body processes and is sometimes called "the master gland."
What is the pituitary gland?
300
This hearing loss is a result from damage to the cochlea, hair cells, or auditory neurons.
What is Sensorineural Deafness?
300
This stage of sleep is characterized by brain waves with spindles and k-complexes.
What is Stage 2 Sleep?
300
This is rewarding behaviors that get closer and closer to the desired goal behavior.
What is shaping?
400
This is the most effective research method for studying unusually complex or rare phenomena.
What is the case study?
400
This stimulates a muscle to contract.
What is motor neurons / efferent neurons?
400
This theory states that pain is experienced only if the pain messages can pass through an opening in the spinal cord on their route to the brain.
What is gate-control theory?
400
This sleep disorder is a condition in which an awake person suddenly and uncontrollably falls asleep.
What is narcolepsy?
400
According to Freud, this is the tendency to forget unpleasant or traumatic memories hidden in the unconscious mind.
What is repression?
500
If Aristotle and Locke, who both believed that what we know is acquired from experience, were alive today, they would best agree with this approach to psychology.
What is Behavioral Approach?
500
Loss of the ability of the brain to produce adequate levels of dopamine often leads to this.
What is Parkinson's Disease?
500
This is the transformation of stimulus energy to the electrochemical energy of neural impulses.
What is transduction?
500
According to Freud, this is the underlying meaning of a dream.
What is latent content?
500
This states that behaviors followed by positive consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by annoying or negative consequences are weakened.