What is one field of psychology that stated that it is important to understand the mind as a whole because the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts?
Gestalt Psychology
100
What are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex?
Frontal, Temporal, Parietal and Occipital
100
What are the three types of neurons?
1. Sensory neurons
2. Interneurons
3. Motor neurons
100
What is the observable expression of traits that results from a combination of genes and environment?
Phenotype
100
What is the neuro-imaging technique that measures the blood flow in specific parts of the brain in response to stimuli or while performing a specific task?
fMRI
200
What is the name of a variable that accidentally affects the outcome measure in the experiment, which wasn't controlled between experimental conditions (diminishing the power of the experimental result)?
Confounds or confounding variable
200
An interesting observation can be seen when corpus callosum is severed in individuals. This is referred to as...
Split-brain phonomena
200
What is the anatomical part of the neurone where all the input is summed up together to determine if it will fire or not
Cell body (SOMA)
200
What is the stage of the sleep during which the release of growth hormones are facilitated?
REM (Rapid Eyes Movement) sleep
200
What is the subcortical structure that is primarily responsible for forming new memories?
Hippocampus
300
What is the type of experimental design that best CONTROLS for BIAS involving experimenter expectancy efforts?
The Double-Blind Study
300
What is the part of the brain that takes up about 30% of the human brain and is what makes humans humans. Name this structure & location.
Prefrontal Cortex in the Frontal Lobe
300
Each neurotransmitter only binds to a receptor that has a very specific shape. This notion is referred to as...?
Lock and Key Model
300
What are the two components of the addiction?
Physical & Psychological components
300
A fatty material that encases some axons to facilitate the transfer of the electrical impulse...
Myelin Sheath
400
Movement that brought about in opposition to behaviorism that insisted the importance of the mind in human behaviors.
Cognitive Revolution
400
What is the term that references how the brain processes the sensory input?
Hint: The hemispheres of the brain control the opposite sides of the body.
Contralateral Processing
400
What is the fundamental principle of the neuronal communication that states that the neuron always fires with same strength and only varies on its frequency of firing?
All-or-none principle
400
A statistical estimate of the portion of variation of a trait in a population that is due to difference in genetic transfer...
Heritability
400
Sometimes neurotransmitters are absorbed back into the presynaptic terminal buttons. This process is called...
Reuptake
500
A definition that qualifies (describes) and quantifies (measures) a variable so that the variable can be understood objectively
Operationalization or operational definition
500
The idea that both motor and somatosensory cortices are disproportionately devoted to body’s more sensitive or more prominently used parts, such as face and the fingers. This is...?
Humunculus
500
What is called when a drug hampers the activity of neurotransmitter? Name the term and provide an example.
Antagonist (i.e., caffeine, Botox, etc)
500
This theory views the dream as a way for our brains to make a sense of the random neural firings that happen during our sleep. What is the name of this theory?
Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis
500
What is the term that refers to the dramatic shift in electrical charge within the neuron when the combined input goes over the excitatory threshold?