Sensation and
Perception
Perception
Drugs and the Brain
Sleep and Dreams
Social and Behaviors Psychology
Emotions and Stress
100
Can be detected using this test
What is colorblindness?
100
A variety of negative symptoms experienced when drug use is discontinued. These symptoms usually are the opposite of the effects of the drug.
What is withdrawl?
100
An individual who has difficulty falling asleep and then staying asleep (wakes up at least once during the night) may be suffering from this condition
What is insomnia?
100
Kitty Genovese was attacked and killed with a knife outside her apartment building. Her death is attributed to this effect
What is bystander effect?
100
A response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience.
What is emotion?
200
When you walk into the Colonial Mall, you are overwhelmed by a strange smell you cannot identify. After a few minutes, you are no longer aware of the smell. This process is called:
What is desensitization?
200
A category of drugs that tends to suppress central nervous system activity
What is are depressants?
200
During this cycle of sleep an individual displays rapid eye movement, suppressed muscle tone, and is difficult to wake up. When they does awake, they report dreaming.
What is REM sleep?
200
Justin sees his psychology professor arguing angrily with a worker at the local post office. From this, he assumes that his professor is a hostile person. His assumption illustrates...
What is Fundamental attribution error?
200
A machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measure several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion
What is a polygrapgh?
300
Sense that tells you whether your body is upright and contributes to sense of balance
What is the vestibular sense?
300
This drugs active ingredient is THC delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol
What is Marijuana?
300
Lasts about 24 hours and influences the sleep-wake cycle
What is the circadian rhythm?
300
In this man's experiment, participants were told to shock “learners” for giving a wrong answer to test items. Two out of three participants continued to administer shocks to an unresponsive learner.
Who is Milgram?
300
Almond-shaped neural clusters linked to the emotions of fear and anger
What is the amygdala?
400
_________ threshold is the weakest amount of a stimulus that can be sensed.
What is the absolute threshold?
400
The effects of all psychoactive drugs occur through their interactions with our ______________ systems.
What are endogenous neurotransmitter systems?
400
This condition causes an individual is experience interrupted sleep, and people in their household complain of loud snoring.
What is sleep apnea?
400
The tendency for a dominant point of view in a group to be strengthened to a more extreme position after a group discussion
What is group polarization?
400
Theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal.
What is the Two-factor thoeory?
Or
What is the Schachter-Singer theory?
500
Type of deafness that occurs because of damage to the middle ear, which is the part that amplifies sound.
What is Conductive Deafness?
500
The main neurotransmitter involved in the reward pathway, addiction, learning, & emotion
What is dopamine?
500
This area of the hypothalamus is important for promoting sleep
What is the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO)?
500
The exertion of less effort by a person working together with a group
What is social loafing?
500
The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves
What is Relative Deprivation?