Psychology's Roots
The debate of whether genes or environment shape us.
Nature vs. Nurture
This structure is crucial in regulating emotional responses such as fear, aggression, and anger.
What is the amygdala?
This group reviews human research proposals for ethical compliance.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
The theory that pain is regulated by spinal “gates” filtering signals.
What is the gate-control theory?
The sleep stage associated with vivid dreaming.
What is REM sleep?
This school of psychology, led by William James, emphasized the adaptive purpose of mental processes and their functions.
What is functionalism?
Split-brain research reveals the importance of this structure for hemispheric communication.
What is the corpus callosum?
The infamous study that spanned 40 years and resulted in participant death and a significant loss of trust in the medical system.
What is the Tuskegee Syphillis Study?
The process of converting sensory input into neural signals.
What is transduction?
This common sleep disturbance is characterized by difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
The psychological perspective that emphasizes observable behavior and environment.
What is behaviorism?
This neurotransmitter is strongly tied to reward and pleasure.
What is dopamine?
The Belmont Principle that requires you do no harm.
What is Beneficence/Nonmaleficence?
The fovea contains densely packed ______ for detailed color vision.
What are cones?
This depressant slows neural processing and impairs memory.
What is alcohol?
He founded the first psychology lab in 1879 and focused on measuring the fastest mental processes.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The fatty covering that speeds up neural transmission.
What is the myelin sheath?
This 1971 study demonstrated the dangers of situational power.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This Gestalt principle explains why we group nearby objects together.
What is proximity?
This theory says dreams are random brain activity woven into stories.
What is the activation-synthesis theory?
A psychologist designing safer airplane cockpits would be in this field.
What is human factors psychology?
Damage to this limbic structure impairs memory formation.
What is the hippocampus?
The Belmont principle that requires protecting autonomy and vulnerable groups.
What is Respect for Persons?
Depth perception cue caused by each eye receiving slightly different images.
What is binocular disparity?
This theory says sleep allows for the merging of random neural activity.
What is neural synthesis theory?