Famous Psychologists
This famous psychologist established the first journal of psychological science.
William Wundt
This is the variable that is thought to be affected by the manipulation of the independent variable.
Dependent Variable
This lobe of the brain is responsible for hearing/auditory processes.
Temporal Lobe
This is a form of electromagnetic radiation that travels as a wave.
Light
In this type of room, you might be a giant person and a miniature person.
Ames Room
This famous psychologist was a pioneer for Positive Psychology.
This occurs when the effect of one variable depends on the effect of another.
An Interaction
This area of brain focuses on balance and coordination.
Cerebellum
This is the neural tissue lining the inside back surface of the eye. It absorbs light, processes images, and sends visual information to the brain.
The Retina
This pain pathway registers localized pain and relays it to the cortex in a fraction of a second. This is the system that hits you with sharp pain when you first cut your finger.
Fast Pathway
This famous psychologist founded psychoanalytic theory and believed behavior is driven by the unconscious.
Sigmund Freud
The strength of a correlational relationship is described by this statistical term.
Correlation coefficient
This neurotransmitter is known for its regulation of anxiety, it is the only one that seems to produce inhibitory PSPs
GABA
This is the point at which the axons from the inside half of each eye cross over and then project to the opposite half of the brain.
Optic Chiasm
If you hear a musical note with precisely the same loudness and pitch played on a guitar and then on a harmonica. The difference you perceive between the sounds is called this.
Timbre
This behaviorist stated that free will is an illusion.
BF Skinner
Amy wants to study the same participants before, during, and after the experiment at least 1, 3, and 5 years later. The research she is conducting is best known as this.
A case study
This is the microscopic gap between the terminal button of one neuron and the cell membrane of another neuron.
The Synaptic Cleft
This theory suggests the human eye has three types of receptors with differing sensitivities to different light wavelengths, just follow the red, green, and blue.
Trichromatic Theory
This term means a readiness to perceive a stimulus in a particular way. You see the old woman right?
A perceptual set
This psychologist conducted a study to explore the need for affiliation by making a experiment and control group around the threat of shocks.
Stanley Schachter
In order to reduce problems resulting from placebo effects, the unreliability of self-reports, and other factors that can undermine the scientific value and validity of research, researchers will use this in her research design. Shhh...don't say anything.
Deception
This is the study of heritable changes in gene expression that do not involve modifications to the DNA sequence.
Epigenetics
In humans, the bulk of this area of the brain is devoted to processing signals coming from the fingers, lips, and tongue.
Somatosensory Cortex
According to the vast majority of researchers, it was this that contributed the most to people's perceptions about the color of "The Dress."
The implicit assumption about the illumination of the photo.