Chapter 1
Information collected through formal observation or measurement.
What is Data?
Information that is based on personal feelings, opinions, or experiences that cannot be independently measured or verified through objective means.
What is Subjective evidence?
Excess neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft are reabsorbed.
What is Reuptake?
True ability of the individual to detect the presence or absence of signals.
What is sensitivity?
Deals with the questions of psychology as they arise in the context of the justice system.
What is Forensic Psychology?
Examine ones own conscious experience objectively as possible.
What is introspection?
An integrated set of principles that explains and predicts many, but not all, observed relationships within a given domain of inquiry.
What is a Theory?
Deep grove that separates the left and right side of the brain.
What is the Longitudinal Fissure?
The minimum amount of stimulus energy that must be present for the stimulus to be detected 50% of the time.
What is the Absolute Threshold?
Look for evidence that supports what you believe and ignore evidence that tells you otherwise.
What is Confirmation Bias?
These psychologist compare populations across countries.
What are Cross-cultural psychologist?
A precise statement of how a conceptual variable is turned into a measured variable.
Immediately behind the frontal lobe, involved in processing sensory information.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
The quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness (frequency/hertz (hz)) or lowness (frequency/hertz (hz)) of a tone.
What is Pitch?
Long strings of genetic material made up of DNA.
What are Chromosomes?
Discipline that focuses on emotional, social, vocational, and health-related outcomes in individuals who are considered psychologically healthy.
What is Counseling Psychology?
Numbers that summarize the distribution of scores on a measured variable.
What are Descriptive Statistics?
Provide structure for nervous system, help neurons line up close for communication, insulate neurons, transport nutrients and waste products, mediate immune response.
What are Glial cells?
Small area that reflected light is not seen. Spot in each eye does not overlap and our brain fills it in, bur we can not respond to information in it.
What is the Blind Spot?
Perception of the body’s movement through space.
What is Kinesthesia?
This field studies the ultimate biological causes of behavior. How behavior is impacted by genetics and adaptations to surroundings, including physical and social surroundings.
What is Evolutionary Psychology
Number between -1 and +1 that indicates the strength and direction of the relationship between variables, represented by r.
What is the correlational coefficient?
Chemical messengers that must bind to a receptor to send the signal, travel through the blood stream, have widespread effects that are slower and tend to last longer.
What are Hormones?
Damage to neurons in peripheral or central nervous system causing pain signals to the brain to be exaggerated.
What is Neuropathic pain?
The individuals inherited physical characteristics, a combination of genetic and environmental influences.
What is the Phenotype?