Sensing the Environment
The process in which an organism absorbs information from its environment.
What is sensation?
A person's mental interpretation of the information from their environment.
What is Perception?
This 3rd century (B.C.) Athenian thinker established one of the first schools of philosophy of the ancient era, who also made the argument that intelligence was gifted at birth.
Who was Plato?
The multidisciplinary field that studies human memory, thought, feeling, brain, mind, and behavior in response to internal and external sensations.
What is Psychology?
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Who is Chance?
A detectable input from the environment.
What is a stimulus?
This theory proposes that individuals have different levels of detection for a minimal stimulus in the presence of other background interference.
What is Signal-Detection Theory?
A principle pupil of Plato's, this scholar often disagreed with Plato in their views on intelligence and acquired knoweldge.
Who was Aristotle?
What was Behaviorism?
The blue M&M although less common than the other colors, was a replacement for another M&M color that is no longer in production.
What is a tan M&M
Hearing is one of our greatest senses and allows humans to pick up sensations in the form of these inputs.
What are sound waves?
This term refers to the minimum intensity required for a stimulus to be detected at least 50% of the time.
What is Absolute Threshold?
This person expanded the progression of psychology by popularizing a form of talk therapy. It is worth noting this same person was not a registered psychologist
Who was Sigmund Freud?
This field dedicates its time working with animals and attempting to study the working minds of other animals.
What is contemporary psychology?
The Norwegian Chess Grandmaster who holds the highest elo score in recorded history and was subsequently the world champion for exactly 10 years in a row.
Who is Magnus Carlson?
After enough exposure, an individual may become less responsive to repeated stimuli.
What is Habituation
The process in which information is fed upward starting at the receptors, and then passed on to different areas of the brain and eventually higher processes.
What is Bottom-Up Processing?
Wilhelm Wundt and William James were both prominent psychologists of their time. Both started major advancements to grow the industry, and each worked in a facility designed for experiments.
What is a lab?
This school of psychology became very popularized among the general public and even begin to be referred to as a type of "couch therapy".
What is Psychodynamic theory?
A nurse during the American Civil war, this pioneer woman established foundational components to the medical field including the establishment of the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
Integrating past experiences in order to use that knowledge to make a decision, or elicit a response in the presence of a particular stimuli.
What is adaptation?
Within the study of psychophysics, the first step in perception involves the transformation of chemical energy from the environment into neural energy that can be interpreted later.
What is Transduction?
Head researcher for the Bobo Doll studies, this individual sought to explain his social-learning theory that we learn from observing others.
Who was Albert Bandura?
Through the use of introspection and identifying the separate components that make up an experience
What is Structuralism?
The name of Chance's pet cat.
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