The science of behavior and mental processes of an organism
What is psychology?
100
A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
What is a hypothesis?
100
The building blocks of the nervous system
What are neurons?
100
Your body's two chemical communication systems
What is the neural system and the hormonal system?
100
Any brain state other than your normal waking awareness
What is an altered state of consciousness?
200
The #1 question psychologists have debated
What is nature vs. nurture?
200
A technique for collecting the self-reported attitudes, behaviors, or opinions of a particular group
What is a survey?
200
Fibers that receive information and conduct it toward the cell's body
What are dendrites?
200
It includes the brain and spinal cord and is your body's decision maker
What is the central nervous system?
200
A sleep stage characterized by being internally aroused but outwardly paralyzed
What is REM, or Stage 5, sleep?
300
The researcher credited with transitioning psychology to a science
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
300
When any variation of a term brings up a different emotion in the respondent that may affect their expressed opinion
What are wording effects?
300
Fiber that passes information to terminal branches
What is the axon?
300
It is the master gland because it can influence other glands in the endocrine system and is located near the brain
What is the pituitary gland?
300
Focused awareness
What is attention?
400
The turn of psychology back to a focus on mental processes, especially the scientific exploration of how one's mind perceives, processes, and retains information
What is the cognitive revolution?
400
DOUBLE: Manipulation of the factor of interest, control (holding constant other factors), and random assignment
What are the requirements of a true experiment?
400
This helps speed neural impulses
What is the myelin sheath?
400
It is the major connector of your body's two chemical communication systems because it controls the pituitary gland
What is the hypothalamus?
400
Processing that involves both the conscious (deliberate and aware) and unconscious (unaware) parts of your mind
What is dual-processing, or dual tracks?
500
The prominent school of psychological thought during the 1920s-1960s
What is behaviorism?
500
A data analysis method that tells you the direction of a relationship between two variables but not the cause of influence
What is correlation?
500
The area of the brain responsible for an animal's increased adaptability (as it gets larger, so do association areas and reasoning capabilities)
What is the cerebral cortex?
500
A chemical substance that blocks the effects of neurotransmitters (example: Botulin in Botox blocks Acetylcholine, which helps control your muscles)
What is an antagonist?
500
When we are not choosing to attend to a stimuli but it draws our eye and demands our attention anyway