Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
Curiosity, Skepticism, and Humility.
What is the scientific attitude?
The building block of our body's neural information system.
What are Neurons?
This drug is both a stimulant and a mild hallucinogen.
Agents such as alcohol or drugs that pass through the placenta and can cause harm to the fetus.
What are teratogens?
Learning based on the connections between sequential events created by our minds.
What is associative learning?
Examines assumptions, appraises the source, discerns hidden biases, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.
What is critical thinking?
A major excitatory neurotransmitter involved in memory.
What is glutamate?
Internal biological clock.
What is a circadian rhythm?
What is a cortical area?
Learned association between two stimuli and thus an anticipation of events.
What is classical conditioning?
The scientific study of observable behavior.
What is Behaviorism?
Undersupply linked to tremors and decreased mobility.
What is dopamine?
The tallest waves on an EEG recorded during sleep.
What are the delta waves of N3 sleep?
Life stage when selective pruning of unused neurons begins.
What is adolescence?
What is operant conditioning?
The first woman to officially receive a Ph.D. in psychology and wrote the animal mind.
Who was Margaret Floy Washburn?
The oldest and innermost region of the brain.
What is the brainstem?
The stage of sleep where you may experience hypnic jerk or senory hallucinations.
What is N1 sleep?
Theorists responsible for Moral Development, Psychosocial Development, and Cognitive Development.
Who are Lawrence Kohlberg, Erik Erikson, and Jean Piaget?
Learning supported by cognitition.
What is observational/social learning?
Biological influences, psychological influences, and socio-cultural influences.
What are the three levels of analysis for behavior?
Where sound is processed in the brain.
What is the auditory cortex in the temporal lobes?
REM sleep triggers neural activity that evokes random visual memories, which our sleeping brain weaves into stories.
What is activation-synthesis?
What is the postlaunch honeymoon?
The neural basis for observational learning.
What are mirror neurons?