It's Science!
Brain Bio
Awake, in a Haze, or in a Dream?
Sensation & Perception
Maximizing your Variability
100
This is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is Psychology?
100
This is the layer of fatty tissue that helps speed neural transmission.
What is the myelin sheath?
100
This occurs in 5 stages.
What is the sleep cycle?
100
These are the cells for the processing of color located in the back of the retina.
What are cones?
100
This is the hemisphere of the brain that is responsible for word recognition and language.
What is left hemisphere?
200
He is considered the father of psychology and created the first psychology lab in Germany.
Who is Whilhem Wundt?
200
This is a relatively fast-acting chemical messenger that affects mood, hunger, sleep and arousal.
What is serotonin?
200
This is our regular body cycle that occurs on a 24-hour schedule.
What is a circadian rhythm?
200
This is our first awareness of some outside stimulus.
What is sensation?
200
This is a constant debate in psychology regarding the cause of our behaviors.
What is nature-nurture debate?
300
This is a broad explanation of why and how a behavior occurs.
What is a Theory?
300
This system governs reflexes such as jerking your hand away from a hot stove.
What is the nervous system?
300
These are the "thoughts, feelings, and aroused states of which we are aware".
What is consciousness?
300
This is the minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
300
This is the stage during which most dreams occur.
What is the REM stage?
400
This is a research method used to manipulate one variable to see its effects on another variable.
What is an experiment?
400
This system governs the heartbeat, digestion, and other self-regulating body functions.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
400
I suggested that this is an altered state of consciousness that occurs during our waking awareness.
What is Flow?
400
This occurs when you perceive a discrepancy between the appearance of objects and their physical reality which cannot be logically explained.
What is visual/perceptual illusion?
400
This system directs our fight or flight responses.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
500
Introduced by William James, this approach to understanding behaviors shares similarities with Charles Darwin's evolution theory.
What is Functionalism?
500
This a combination of nerve fibers that enable communication between the left and right cerebral hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
500
This is the feeling that individuals seek under the influence of drugs (alcohol, cocaine, amphetamines).
What is euphoria?
500
This principle governs our perceptions and states that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
What is the Gestalt principle?
500
This is what Freud would call the story lines of dreams.
What is manifest content?
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