Science of Psychology
The Brain
Sensation & Perception
Consciousness
Miscellaneous
100
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
100
This lobe of the brain is associated with processing visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
100
The event in which an individual fails to recognize an unexpected stimulus that is in plain sight.
What is inattentional blindness?
100
This stage is considered the lightest stage of sleep.
What is stage 1.
100
The brain's capacity to alter its structure and function; adapt to change.
What is plasticity?
200
A carefully regulated procedure where researchers manipulate one or more variables that are being influenced by another variable is called a/an
What is an experiment?
200
Three major regions of the brain.
What are the hindbrain, midbrain, & forebrain?
200
Process by which our sensory receptors take in stimulus energy from our environment.
What is sensation?
200
A condition in which increasingly larger drug doses are needed to produce a given effect.
What is a drug tolerance?
200
Chemicals released by the neuron which can then trigger a response in another neuron; the chief means of communication among neurons.
What is a Neurotransmitter?
300
Approach to psychology that views psychological distress as a results of persistent negative thoughts.
What is the Cognitive Approach?
300
Brain structure that is responsible for relay information between the hemispheres.
What is the corpus collosum?
300
__________ processing is like putting together a picture puzzle you've never seen before.
What is Bottom-up Processing?
300
This stage of sleep is where most dreaming occurs.
What is REM (Rapid Eye Movement)?
300
These are structures located at the end of a neural axon.
What are terminal buttons?
400
The approach to psychology that is most interested in early childhood relationships and unconscious thoughts.
What is psychodynamic (Freudian) approach.
400
Includes the brain and spinal cord?
What is the central nervous system?
400
The minimum amount of stimulation that an individual can detect through a given sense is known as...
What is the absolute threshold?
400
A sudden, irresistible urge to sleep, which lasts a few minutes to half an hour during the daytime, is called
What is narcolepsy?
400
These two things make up consciousness.
What is awareness and arousal?
500
Students who do better in high school tend to do better in college. This is an example of
What is a positive correlation?
500
Two small hemispheres located just behind the brain stem; involved in controlling balance and coordinating movements
What is a Cerebellum?
500
I have just walked into a very smelly house. After a while I do not notice the smell as bad or at all. What process makes this possible?
What is sensory adaption?
500
is an altered state characterized by narrowed attention and increased openness to suggestion.
What is hypnosis?
500
System made up of glands that secrete hormones.
What is the Endocrine System?
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