The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
100
The perspective involving unconscious conflicts and early childhood relationships, that is the modern version of Freud's psychoanalysis.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
100
The lobes of the brain associated with auditory processing.
What are the temporal lobes?
100
The lobe of the brain associated with personality, judgment, planning, and decision making that was damaged in the case of Phineas Gage.
What is the frontal lobe?
100
The raw data of experience, based on the activation of receptor cells located in sensory organs.
What is perception?
200
The tendency to look for in for information that supports one's own belief.
What is confirmation bias?
200
The perspective based on the work of Rogers and Maslow, focusing on the individual tendency to naturally grow and potentially self actualize in accepting and client-centered conditions.
What is the humanistic perspective.
200
The hemisphere of the brain associated with tasks such as pattern recognition, spatial processing, musical and artistic processing, and controlling the left side of the body.
What is the right hemisphere?
200
The division of the nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
200
The minimal stimulus necessary for humans to detect it at least 50% of the time.
What is the absolute threshold?
300
Observing behavior as it happens in a real-life, natural setting without imposing controls.
What is naturalistic observation?
300
The perspective focusing on overall patterns of perceptions and thoughts, that is associated with the phrase, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
What is the gestalt perspective?
300
When a neuron is positively charged outside and negatively charged inside such that it is not firing.
What is resting potential?
300
The part of the brain that acts as a relay station for incoming information.
What is the thalamus?
300
Bitter, salty, sour, sweet, umami.
What are the five primary tastes?
400
A relationship in which a decrease in one variable is associated with an increase in another variable.
What is negative correlation?
400
The modern psychological perspective that focuses on the adaptive function or purpose of different behaviors and traits for the sake of reproduction or survival.
What is the evolutionary psychology perspective?
400
A neurotransmitter that can be agonized by alcohol and result in the behavioral features we may call drunkenness.
What is GABA?
400
The part of the brain responsible for the formation of long term memories.
What is the hippocampus?
400
One of the monocular cues discussed in class.
What is linear perspective/aerial/texture gradient/etc.
500
The perspective based on the work of individuals such as Watson, Pavlov, and Skinner.
What is the behavioral perspective?
500
A process by which neurotransmitters are sucked back up into the terminal vesicles of the presynaptic neuron.
What is reuptake?
500
The division of the nervous system that mobilizes the body in times of stress?
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
500
The theory of vision involving opposing pairs and afterimages.