The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What is psychology?
100
The brain’s special capacity for change
What is plasticity?
100
The ear is divided into these three parts
What are outer ear, middle ear and inner ear?
100
A strong desire to repeat the use of a drug for emotional reasons, such as feeling of well-being and reduction of stress.
What is psychological dependence?
100
In classical conditioning, organisms learn the association between two _____________.
What are stimuli?
200
Involves gaining knowledge through the observation of events, the collection of data and logical reasoning
What is the empirical method?
200
Sensory nerves which carry information to the brain and spinal cord
What are afferent nerves?
200
Provides information about balance and movements
What is the vestibular sense?
200
Three main categories of psychoactive drugs.
What are stimulants, depressants and hallucinogens?
200
Occurs when we make a connection, or an association, between two events
What is associative learning?
300
This type of research tells us about the relationships between variables and its purpose is to examine whether and how two variables change together
What is correlational research?
300
Nerve cells that integrate sensory input and motor output
What are neural networks?
300
You are listening to a lecture. Then the bell rings in the hallway. In order to hear this stimulus, ______________ neurons must carry electrochemical messages from your ears to your brain.
What is afferent?
300
An active stage of sleep in which dreaming occurs.
What is REM sleep?
300
A learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response.
What is classical conditioning?
400
A manipulated experimental factor
What is the independent variable?
400
If one gene of a pair is dominant and one is recessive, then the dominant gene overrides the recessive gene
What is dominant recessive gene principle?
400
__________________ involves receiving stimulus energies from the external environment and __________________ gives meaning to sensation
What are sensation and perception?
400
Sleep may have developed because animals needed to protect themselves at night. Sleep may be a way to conserve energy. Sleep is restorative. Sleep helps with plasticity.
What are theories for why we need sleep?
400
A previously neutral stimulus that eventually elicits a conditioned response after being paired with the unconditioned stimulus
What is the conditioned stimulus?
500
Biological, behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, evolutionary and socio-cultural
What are the seven approaches to psychology?
500
A person’s observable characteristics
What is phenotype?
500
The sense that monitors movement, posture, and orientation. This sense is located throughout the body in our muscles and joints and relays their messages to the brain.
What is the kinesthetic sense?
500
Higher – level awareness, Lower – level awareness, altered states of consciousness, Subconscious awareness, no awareness.
What are levels of awareness?
500
The frequency of behavior increases because it is followed by the removal of something.