Neuroscience & Behavior
These are nerve cells, the basic components of the nervous system.
What are Neurons?
The activation of the sense organs by a source of physical energy.
What is sensation?
The awareness of the sensations, thoughts, and feelings being experienced at a given moment.
What is Consciousness?
A relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience.
What is Learning?
Brain activity in which people mentally manipulate information including words, visual images, sounds, or other data.
What is Thinking?
This type of psychology examines how people grow and change from conception through death.
What is developmental psychology?
The part of the axon that sends messages to other neurons.
What are Terminal Buttons?
The sorting out, interpretation, analysis, and integration of stimuli by the sense organs and brain.
What is Perception?
The period of sleep characterized by quick, back-and-forth eye movements.
What is Rapid Eye Moment or REM Sleep?
A stimulus that decreases the probability that a previous behavior will occur again.
What is Punishment?
The branch of psychology that focuses on the study of higher mental processes.
What is Cognitive psychology?
This is a prediction stated in a way that allows it to be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
The part of the nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Central nervous system (CNS)?
The part of the eye that converts the electromagnetic energy of light to electrical impulses for transmission to the brain.
What is the Retina?
Sudden awakenings from non-REM sleep accompanied by extreme fear, panic, and strong physiological arousal.
What are Night Terrors?
The process by which we encode, store, and retrieve information.
What is Memory?
These kinds of problems require the problem solver to rearrange elements in a way that will satisfy a certain criterion.
What are Arrangement Problems?
These are broad explanations and predictions concerning phenomena of interest.
What are theories?
The ___________ is the primary means for transmitting messages between the brain and the rest of the body.
What is the Spinal cord?
The part of the ear that vibrates when sound waves hit it.
What is an Eardrum?
Uncontrollable sleeping for short periods while a person is awake.
What is Narcolepsy?
A group of separate pieces of information stored as a single unit in short-term memory.
What is a Chunk?
Thinking in which a problem is viewed as having a single answer.
What is Convergent Thinking?
Psychologists who specialize in considering the ways in which the biological structures and functions of the body affect behavior are called _____________.
What are Behavioral neuroscientists?
The four major sections of the cerebral cortex.
What are the Frontal lobes, Parietal lobes, Temporal lobes, and the Occipital lobes?
Physical stimuli that consistently produce errors in perception.
What are Visual Illusions?
These are an amphetamine-like stimulant that can produce euphoria but also paranoia and agitation.
What are Bath Salts?
This is a group of separate pieces of information stored as a single unit in short-term memory.
What is Long-term Memory?
The accumulation of information, knowledge, and skills that people have learned through experience and education.
What is Crystallized Intelligence?
This sleep disturbance causes difficulty breathing during sleep.
What is sleep apnea?
These chemically transport messages through the synapse between neurons.
What are neurotransmitters?
This contains the hammer and the anvil.
What is the middle ear?
Night terrors usually occur more frequently in children between the ages of 3 and 8, during _______ sleep.
What is stage 3?
This type of amnesia can explain situations in which you meet someone you now but cannot remember where you met that person initially.
What is source amnesia?
This is the inability to try different patterns of problem solving in different situations.
What is functional fixedness?
This is defined as a systematic inquiry aimed at the discovery of new knowledge.
What is research?