Key Concepts
Physics
The Brain
Perception and Disorders
Development
100
The ability to make choices free from certain kinds of constraints
What is free will?
100
This man defined the deterministic laws of gravitation and motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
100
You have approximately 100 billion of these in your brain which are used to transmit information through many, many connections.
What are neurons?
100
Found in the retina of the eye, these are responsible for seeing colors. Color blindness is often the result of these being under developed or missing.
What are cones?
100
The age that children are able to learn any language.
What is birth?
200
For everything that happens there are conditions such that, given those conditions, nothing else could happen. The idea that everything that is going to happen has already been decided.
What is determinism?
200
An object at rest tends to stay at rest, and an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted against by another force.
What is Newton's first Law of Motion?
200
A disorder characterized by the sensation of pain in an amputated limb.
What is phantom limb?
200
A psychological phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus goes unnoticed by the observer. For example, an individual fails to notice a difference between two images that are identical except for one change.
What is change blindness?
200
Believed that young children lack mental operations or the ability to manipulate mental representations, young children eventually learn to understand this concept that redistributing material does not affect its mass, number or volume.
What is conservation?
300
The state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined.
What is reality?
300
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
300
The area of the brain responsible for the flight or fight response (fear and aggression).
What is the amygdala?
300
The ability of people who are cortically blind due to damage to the visual pathways of the eye to respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see. The ability to see motion without being consciously aware of what you are seeing.
What is blindsight?
300
This is the maximum number of people an individual can keep in their social circle.
What is 150 - 200 people?
400
The quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.
What is consciousness?
400
A principle, especially as formulated in quantum mechanics, that greater accuracy of measurement for one observable entails less accuracy of measurement for another. For example, it is in principle impossible to measure both the momentum and the position of a particle at the same time with perfect accuracy.
What is the uncertainty principle?
400
Part of the brain where most of our "higher order" functions occur.
What is the cortex?
400
A mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by poor emotional responsiveness.Common symptoms include auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction.
What is schizophrenia?
400
The manner of thinking, behaving, or reacting characteristic of a specific person. Those aspects of an individual's personality, such as introversion or extroversion, that are often regarded as innate rather than learned.
What is temperament?
500
Do you have free will?
What is (insert your opinion here)?
500
This law states that every point mass in the universe attracts every other point mass with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
What is Newton's law of universal gravitation?
500
Area of the brain responsible for communicating between the left and right hemispheres. This area can be severed to stop seizures in severe cases of epilepsy.
What is the corpus collosum?
500
This manual is used to diagnose mental disorders and lists all diagnostic criteria.
What is the DSM-IV?
500
This three word term is used to describe the ability to reason about the mental states of others. This is how most humans understand that another person has different thoughts, desires, and feelings than their own. Three year olds and children with developmental disorders lack this ability.
What is theory of mind?
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