Chapter 1
Definition of psychology.
What is the science of behaviors and mental processes?
The division of the autonomic nervous system associated with the fight or flight response is called the ____.
What is sympathetic division?
Drug that tends to calm central nervous system activity and slow body functions.
What is depressants?
zygote, embryo, fetus
The variable that is manipulated by a researcher to investigate whether it consequently brings change in another variable.
What is an independent variable?
Area of the brain associated with fear.
What is amygdala?
This stops the release of melatonin into the bloodstream.
What is when light hits the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)?
These types of parents are Confrontative. They are both demanding and responsive. They exert control by setting rules, but especially with older children, they encourage open discussion and allow exceptions.
What are authoritative parents?
Means there is a relationship between 2 or more variables but this relationship does not necessarily imply cause and effect
What is the correlation?
The part of the brain responsible for vision is the ____ lobe.
What is the occipital lobe?
Brain has adapted to the substance and that they need larger doses to feel the effects of the substance
What is tolerance?
Lawrence Kohlberg focused on the development of
Structuralism focused on ____.
What are the basic elements of the mind?
When the outside of a neuron is POSITIVE and the inside of the neuron is NEGATIVE.
What is the resting potential?
The continued increased dosage of psychoactive drugs leads the user to crave it and suffer withdrawal symptoms when there is an absence of a substance
What is addiction?
Object permanence
What is understanding that items and people still exist even when you can't see or hear them.
Dr. Basias is conducting a study on the effects of caffeine on anxiety levels. In her study, research participants drank either caffeinated or decaffeinated beverages prior to having their anxiety levels assessed. Those who received the caffeinated drinks were assigned to the
What is experimental group?
Identify the 4 Brain lobes.
Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, Occipital
The eyes move rapidly under closed lids.
Brain waves become more rapid.
Heart and breathing rates increase.
Piaget's 4 stages of development.
What is sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.