What is Psychology?
Any kind of observable action, including words, gestures, responses, and biological activity.
What is behavior?
A statement on how variables are related to eachother
What is a predication?
Controls involuntary functions
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
The process where the environment is interpreted in terms of existing cognitive structures.
What is Assimilation?
Combination of sensations arriving from sensory systems and prior knowledge.
What is Perception?
This perspective descibes the contents of the mind
What is Structuralism?
Individuals are divided into subgroups and take representative samples.
What is stratified random sampling?
Branchlike extensions of the neuron that detect information from other nuerons.
What is a Dendrite?
Understanding that an underlying physical dimension remains unchanged depite shifts in it's appearance.
What is conservation?
Suggests that we perceive color in terms of paired opposites (Red/Green, Blue/Yellow, Black/White).
What is the Opponent Process of Color Vision?
These professionals identify, prevent, and releive psychological distress or dysfunction.
What are Clinical Psychologists?
Occurs when experimenters don't reveal the true nature of the study before participation in the experiment.
What is deception?
Non-nueronal cells that maintain homeostasis, form myelin, and provide support and protections for nuerons in the CNS and PNS.
What is Glial Cells?
Having the ability to: Think logically about abstract ideas, think hypothetically, use symbols and propositions
What is Piaget's Formal Operational Stage
The ventral stream refers to the path that goes from the occipital cortex through the ____ cortex; specialized for identifying and recognizing objects.
What is temporal?
Describes immediate, non-evolutionary explainations for behavior.
What are proximate causes?
The degree to which results can be attributed to the independant variable, rather than outside variables.
What is Internal Validity?
GABA, Glycine, Dopamine
What are inhibitory nuerotransmitters?
Upon the departure of a parent, this infant shows litlle interest when the parent leaves or reappears.
What is Insecure-Avoidant attachement in the Strange Situation?
Cell activiation in a specific location on the basilar membrane produces our perception of pitch
What is Place Theory?
Crying occurs because of biological processes happening in the tear duct. What explanation is this?
What is a Process-Oriented Proximate Explanation?
The degree to which experimental results can be generalized
What is External Validity?
This coordinates the formation and retreival of new memories.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
Identity crisis; unable to make a choice regarding identity
What is Psychosocial Moratorium?
Spatial organization of touch in which two adjacent points on the skin are represented.
What is Somatotopic organization?