The Brain & Nervous System
Principles of Critical Thinking
Perception
The Five Senses
Consciousness
100
Brain lobe responsible for vision
What is the Occipital Lobe.
100
When the results of an experiment have been demonstrated numerous times
What is replicability
100
Mixing of the senses
What is synesthesia
100
A theory for color vision that says color is activated in pairs and explains after images.
What is opponent process theory.
100
Stage of sleep that is called "paradoxical" sleep.
What is REM (or stage 5) sleep.
200
Brain region in the frontal lobe that affects language production.
What is Broca's area.
200
When you favor only information that supports of your beliefs and overlook information that may contradict your beliefs.
What is confirmation bias
200
The smallest change needed to detect a change in a stimulus.
What is the just noticeable difference.
200
Theory of hearing high pitches that says specific hair cells on the basilar membrane are activates when a tone has a specific pitch.
What is place theory.
200
Sleep disorder in which the airway becomes blocked, usually affecting middle-aged overweight men.
What is sleep apnea.
300
Part of the autonomic nervous system that controls "fight or flight" responses.
What is the sympathetic nervous system.
300
When two variables are associated but there is not causation.
What is a correlation
300
A top of processing when beliefs and expectations are used to interpret something.
What is top-down processing.
300
Cells that are activated in order to see shapes and forms of objects.
What are rods.
300
A theory of dreaming that states we dream about things that are important in our lives.
What is neurocognitive theory.
400
The receiving end of a neuron.
What is the dendrite
400
A type of study that takes place in a real-life setting, the experimenter doesn't interfere, and has high external validity.
What is naturalistic observation.
400
One of the gestalt principles that allows us to group objects together if they are physically located near each other.
What is proximity.
400
The five tastes.
What are salty, bitter, sweet, sour, and umami (savory).
400
Wanting and thinking about a drug that occur when a regular drug user stops.
What is psychological withdrawal.
500
The primary excitatory neurotransmitter.
What is glutamate.
500
When the experimenter unintentionally gives subtle clues to the participants, which affect the outcome of an experiment.
What is the clever hans effect or the experimenter expectancy effect.
500
The reason why we might not notice a gorilla walk across the screen in a video if we are focused on counting basketball passes.
What is change blindness.
500
Part of the inner ear that is filled with fluid and is responsible for balance.
What is semi circular canals.
500
A class of drugs that produce dramatic alterations in perception, mood, and thought.
What are hallucinogenics.
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