Biopsychology
This part of the neuron receives messages from neurotransmitters.
Dendrite
Visual information transfers to the brain via this.
Optic nerve
This condition makes people stop breathing several times throughout the night when they sleep.
Sleep apnea
His Multiple Intelligence Theory included intelligences such as Intrapersonal, Musical, and Spacial.
Howard Gardner
This part of the brain is involved in "fight or flight" response.
Amygdala
Meg can't form new memories. She may have damage to this part of her brain.
Hippocampus
This allows humans to understand depth in vision.
Binocular Fusion
This is the part of the sleep cycle in which we dream.
REM Sleep
Refers to a test’s consistent ability to yield the same result under a variety of similar circumstances
Reliability
This is the only type of research method that can prove anything.
experiment
This section of the nervous system is responsible for voluntary movement.
Somatic Nervous System
This is the smallest amount of detectable difference in a sensation.
Difference Threshold
LSD is this class of drug
Hallucinogen
The Rorschach Inkblot test and the Thematic Apperception test are both this type of personality test, which is why a trained psychologist is required to administer these tests.
Projective Personality test
Psychiatrist
This is a fancy name for the cell body.
Soma
Humans can understand that the major properties of a given object do not change just because the outside conditions change. Ie, a pink shirt is still pink, even if it is in a dark room.
Constancy
This is NOT the same as a nightmare, as it occurs in a different stage of sleep than REM sleep.
Night terrors
These intelligence tests provide an overall score plus separate scores for individual subtests.
Weschler Tests
Getting paid for doing a job will provide this type of motivation
extrinsic motivation
This brain scan type is the only one that can show function.
PET (Positron Emission Tomography)
These three bones in the ear, collectively known as ossicles, are the smallest bones in the human body.
Hammer, anvil, and stirrup
In blind people, this can vary, due to the inability to determine what time of day it is naturally.
Circadian Rhythm
This theory divides intelligence into 3 parts: Analytical, Creative, and Practical intelligences
Robert Sternberg’s triarchic theory
This glad is the "master gland", and controls many other glands in the body.
Pituitary gland