The Science of Psychology (Chapter 1)
PSYCHOLOGY WHICH FOCUSES ON HOW PEOPLE THINK, REMEMBER, STORE, AND USE INFORMATION
What is Cognitive Psychology?
TUBE LIKE STRUCTURE OF NEURON THAT CARRIES THE NEURAL MESSAGE FROM THE CELL BODY TO THE AXON TERMINALS
What is the axon?
TINY PACKETS OF WAVES WITH SPECIFIC WAVELENGTHS
A PERSON'S AWARENESS OF EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON AROUND THEM AT ANY GIVEN TIME
What is consciousness?
DIFFERENT PARTICIPANTS OF VARIOUS AGES ARE COMPARED AT ONE POINT TO DETERMINE AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES
What is cross-sectional design?
PERSON WHO BELIEVED THAT PROBLEMS DERIVED FROM CHILDHOOD INCIDENTS
Who is Sigmund Freud?
DISEASE YOU GET WHEN THE MYELIN SHEATH IS DESTROYED
What is Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?
What is the visible spectrum?
MENTAL SERIES OF EXERCISES MEANT TO REFOCUS ATTENTION AND ACHIEVE A TRANCELIKE STATE OF CONSCIOSNESS
What is meditation?
THE SAME PARTICIPANTS ARE STUDIED AT VARIOUS AGES TO DETERMINE AGE-RELATED CHANGES
What is longitudinal design?
CHARGED PARTICLES LOCATED INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE CELLS
What is saturation?
PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS RESULTING FROM A LACK OF AN ADDICTIVE DRUG IN THE BODY'S SYSTEM
DIFFERENT PARTICIPANTS OF VARIOUS AGES COMPARED AT SEVERAL POINTS IN TIME, FOR A PERIOD OF ≤6 YEARS, TO DETERMINE AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES
What is cross-sequential design?
A PERSON WHO STUDIED CONDITIONING
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
PAIN CONTROLLING CHEMICALS IN THE BODY
What are endorphins?
AN ILLUSION CAUSED BY A REFRACTION OF LIGHT
What is optical illusion?
What are stimulants?
What is human development?
THE BABY WHO WAS PART OF A STUDY FOR BEHAVIORISM
Who is Little Albert?
SYNAPTIC VESICLES RELEASE THESE IN THE SYNAPTIC GAP
What are neurotransmitters?
THE PART OF THE EYE THAT CONTROLS THE SIZE OF THE PUPIL
What is the iris?
What is narcolepsy?
DEVELOPMENT OF THINKING AND REASONING SKILLS, IS FAIRLY CONTINUOUS, AND IT CHANGES OVER TIME
What is cognitive development?