Chapter 1
The evolutionary perspective is based on this theory evolution, which believed our behaviors are what they are today due to surviving ancestors passing down their genes.
What is the theory of natural selection?
This field of science draws on multiple disciplines such as medicine, psychology, and engineering to understand the brain and nervous system.
What is neuroscience?
Sensation is when we use our sensory organs to receive stimuli, but this is the process of interpreting that stimuli.
What is perception?
Dreams in which the dreamer is aware they are dreaming and sometimes can control the events within the dream is called what?
What is lucid dreaming?
An unconditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, and neutral stimulus are key components to what kind of conditioning?
Of the 8 covered, this psychological perspective uses a combination of 3 well known perspectives to describe the interaction of genes, thinking, and social factors.
What is the biopsychosocial perspective?
Look at the image in Canva.
What is action potential?
Filling in gaps, by using past knowledge, to make sense of the world this kind of processing is what humans are best at.
What is top-down processing?
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What is narcolepsy?
Removing a stimulus to increase the behavior is called what?
What is negative reinforcement?
When conducting research, experimenters would like to use everyone in the group they are interested in. Instead they say this sample is a group of people with characteristics similar to those of the population of interest.
What is a representative sample?
Located in the back of the brain, this lobe is responsible for taking in visual stimuli.
What is the occipital lobe?
Jumping into a cold freezing swimming pool but slowly acclimating to the temperature is an example of what?
What is sensory adaptation?
During this stage of the sleep the body, our body is considered paralyzed and we experience dreams.
What is REM sleep?
When an organism reduces its response to a stimulus it has experienced over and over again this can lead to what?
What is habituation?
"The more you exercise the less weight you have," is a statement that can be said in which kind of research method?
What is the correlational method?
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What is the peripheral and sympathetic nervous system?
Mostly found on the skin, this receptor responds to pain.
What is nociceptors?
Attending to information with little awareness, and sometimes no effort, is an example of what processing?
What is automatic processing?
In classical conditioning this gets paired to the neutral stimulus, resulting in the acquisition of a conditioned stimulus and conditioned response.
What is the unconditioned stimulus?
Of the two kinds of research psychologists can conduct, this focuses on real-world consequences and the change of behavior and outcomes.
What is applied research?
Linking the two hemispheres is a bundle of axons (nerve fibers) known as the what...?
What is the corpus callosum?
When you get a stuffy nose your olfaction, or sense of smell is tampered with. This, also known as your sense of taste, is also effected.
What is gustation?
Just because we sense certain stimuli does not mean we consciously pay attention to it. This is an example of a kind of attention.
What is inattentional blindness?
Overall, conditioning is about learning something to change this key aspect in psychology.
What is behavior?