Perspectives & Research
This perspective focuses on observable behavior and rejects mental processes.
What is Behaviorism?
The brain's outer layer responsible for higher thinking.
What is the Cerebral Cortex?
The process of detecting physical energy from the environment.
What is sensation?
A state of awareness including thoughts, feelings, and perceptions.
What is consciousness?
Learning through rewards and punishments.
What is operant conditioning?
This psychological approach emphasizes free will and person growth.
What is the humanistic perspective?
The part of the neuron that receives incoming signals.
What are dendrites?
The blind spot is cause by this absence in the retina.
What are rods and cones(photoreceptors)?
The hormone regulates sleep wake cycles.
What is melatonin?
The learned association between two stimuli in Pavlov's work.
What is classical conditioning?
A study that looks at relationships between variables without proving cause is this.
What is correlational research?
The division of the nervous system controls voluntary movement.
What is the somatic nervous system?
The minimum difference between two stimuli we can detect.
What is the difference threshold?
This disorder where breathing repeatedly stops during sleep.
What is sleep apnea?
A reinforcement schedule that rewards after a fixed number of responses.
What is a fixed ratio schedule?
When participants act differently because they know they're being watched.
What is the Hawthorne effect?
The brain structure associated with fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
Ability tested with infants using a "visual cliff."
What is depth perception?
This type of drug distorts perception and evokes sensory images.
What are hallucinogens?
What is extinction?
The ethical principle requiring participants to understand risks before agreeing.
What is informed consent?
The split-brain structure connects the two hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
This theory explains hearing based on where the basilar membrane vibrates.
What is place theory?
The theory that dream help process information from the day.
What is the information-processing theory?
The tendency to imitate behaviors seen in others, especially role models.
What is modeling?