Learning
An organism becomes less responsive to repeated stimulus.
What is habituation?
Research ethics code for human experimentation.
What is the Nuremburg Code?
Define psychology.
What is the scientific study of brain and behavior?
A genetically endowed tendency to behave a certain way.
What is an instinct?
Regulates hunger, thirst, sexual behavior, and body temperature (homeostasis).
What is the hypothalamus?
An organism becomes more responsive to a repeated stimulus.
What is sensitization?
Correlation is caused from an additional variable.
What is the third-variable problem?
What we call 'WEIRD' samples
What is western, democratic, industrialized, rich, and democratic?
The hormone that promotes eating.
What is ghrelin?
Certain parts of the brain are dedicated to performing certain functions.
What is localization?
Type of learning where association is made between a stimulus and voluntary response.
What is operant conditioning?
When a variable is clearly defined.
What is operationalizing a variable?
The types of psychology focusing on thoughts and feelings.
What is cognitive and emotional psychology?
The lateral hypothalamus and ventromedial hypothalamus are involved in hunger.
What is the dual-center theory?
Mimics action of neurotransmitters.
What is an agonist?
Stimulus that produces a reflexive response.
Unconditioned stimulus
Research where the participant and researcher don't know who is receiving treatment.
What is a double-blind procedure.
The approach that encompasses psychotherapy, psychiatry, and clinical practice. Coined by Freud.
What is clinical psychology?
Stimuli trigger activity in the ANS (physiological), which then produces an emotional experience in the brain.
What is the James-Lange theory of emotion?
Pieces of the limbic system
What are the basal ganglia, hypothalamus, thalamus, amygdala, and hippocampus?
Propensity for learning certain associations over others.
What is biological preparedness?
How well a test/experiment measures what it claims to measure.
What is construct validity?
The creators of structuralism and functionalism.
Who are Wundt and James?
The top level of Maslow's hierarchy of motives.
What is 'self-transcendence'?
Binds to excitatory receptors, helps form long-term memories.
What is glutamate?