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The person who established the first psychology laboratory and who is referred to as the “Father of Psychology”
Wilhelm Wundt
Your genes interact with your environment to influence your behavior and change your brain.
Nature and Nurture
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment; a person's subjective experience.
Consciousness
The processing, organization, and interpretation of sensory signals in the brain; which is unique to each person.
Perception
The brain and spinal cord comprise this.
Central Nervous System
This is known as the study of mental activity and behavior based on brain processes.
Psychology
This area of the brain is specialized area of the brain is crucial to the production of speech.
Broca's Area
The processing of information by sensory systems without a person’s conscious awareness, such as a Freudian slip.
Subliminal Perception
All senses, except smell, travel to this part of the brain to be interpreted.
Thalamus
These chemical messengers are speedy little couriers, carrying signals from one neuron to another.
Neurotransmitters
In the scientific method, this term refers to a set of interconnected ideas that psychologists use to explain prior research findings and make predictions about the future.
Theory
This part of the brain processes your vision.
Occipital lobe
This is a beneficial practice in which intense contemplation leads to a deep sense of calmness.
Meditation
Olfaction is fancy term for this sense.
Smell
This division of the nervous system is responsible for the "Rest and Digest" state of homeostasis.
Parasympathetic
This person focused his work on the unconscious mind through psychoanalysis.
Sigmund Freud
The thick fibers that connect the two hemispheres of the brain.
Corpus Callosum
The regulation of biological cycles into regular, daily internal patterns.
Circadian rhythm
Photoreceptors in the retina are classified into these two groups.
Rods & cones
This coating speeds up the action potential in a neuron, like stepping on the gas pedal.
Myelin sheath
Humanistic psychology
This part of the brain, located at the back of the brainstem, is essential for balance and motor coordination. Alcohol has a significant impact on its function.
Cerebellum
Stimulants, Depressants, Opioids, and Hallucinogens
(The 4 classes of) Psychoactive Drugs
This type of processing uses pre-existing knowledge to organize individual features into a complete image.
Top-Down Processing
The part of the neuron that has receptors to receive the signals from other neurons.
Dendrites