Psychological Science
The scientific attitude includes 3 main elements: curiosity, humility and _____.
What is skepticism?
Hormones are the main chemical messages of this body system
What is the endocrine system?
The brain's capacity to change by forming new neural pathways
What is neuroplasticity?
The biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes
What are genes?
The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies observable human behavior without reference to mental processes
What is behaviorism?
Studying a single person or event in great detail
What is a case study?
Stage of sleep characterized by bizarre dreams?
What is REM sleep?
An electrical signal that travels down the axon of a neuron
What is action potential?
Studies that investigate the effects of heredity and environment (nature/nurture) on development
What are twin or adoption studies?
The study of the mental activities involved in perceiving, learning, remembering, thinking, communicating, and solving problems
What is cognitive psychology?
In a psychological experiment, the factor that may be influenced by the manipulated experimental treatment
What is dependent variable?
Not noticing a dancing gorilla because you are focusing on counting basketball passes
What is selective attention?
The two main divisions of the nervous system
What are central and peripheral?
Difficulty taking on anther's point of view
What is egocentrism?
People's tendency to exaggerate their ability to have forseen an outcome
What is hindsight bias?
Variable that is manipulated by the experimenter
What is independent variable?
The inability to remember events before the age of 4/5
What is infantile amnesia?
Two parts of the peripheral nervous system
What is moral reasoning?
Experienceing pain relief after taking an inactive substance that is believed to have pain-relieving benefits
What is placebo effect?
An associative relationship in which two variables increase together or decrease together represents
What is positive correlation?
Nervous system that prepares the body for action
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Brain area which enables judgment, planning, and logic
What is prefrontal cortex?
Piaget's stages of development (in order)
What are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational?