Introduction
This is the definition of Psychology
What is The Scientific Study of Behavior and Mental Processing
Surveys, case studies, and observation are examples of this type of research.
What is Descriptive research?
The brain is made up of three major parts: The Hindbrain, the Midbrain, and this:
What is the Forebrain.
This is the process of organizing what we have sensed.
What is perception
This is the first rule of being a critical thinker.
What is be a skeptic.
This man is the Father of Scientific Psychology
Who was Wilhelm Wundt?
This is what we call the results of a study.
What is a dependent variable?
If a neuron fires as it should we say that this has occurred:
What is Excitation?
This is the point at which you begin to detect a stimulus
What is an absolute or detection threshold
If your opinion doesn't matter and my opinion doesn't matter, then all that matters is this:
What is the Truth?
This is what Ph.D. stands for.
What is Doctor of Philosophy?
If one variable increases while the other variable decreases, we call it this:
This is the Great Relay Station of the Brain.
What is the Thalamus?
This theory sees how good you are at picking up on a stimulus in a sea of noise.
What is Signal Detection Theory?
Choosing to watch one news channel and ignoring another is an example of this type of bias.
What is a Confirmation Bias?
This is the time known by the Aristotle and Plato which relied on Common Sense to explain human behavior.
What is the Era of Rationalism?
For a theory to become a hypothesis, it must be clearly stated and it must also be this:
What is testable
This lobe of the forebrain primarily controls vision.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
This is the study of sensation and perception
What is Psychophysics?
This professional skeptic promised to pay $1,000,000 to anyone who made a claim of paranormal activity that he couldn't explain.
Who was James Randi
This type of psychologists studies and the law and helps lawyers judges and law enforcement.
What is a Forensic psychologist?
This is what we call an experiment where neither the subjects nor the experimenter know who is in what group.
What is a Double Blind experiment?
While Agonists and Reuptake Inhibitors increase excitation, this process increases inhibition.
What is an Antagonist?
The ability to perceive the world in three dimensions is known as this.
What is depth perception?
Only looking at past events to determine what will happen in the future is an example of this:
What is a Hindsight bias?