Sensation and Perception
The minimum amount of of energy that can be detected 50% of the time.
What is Absolute Threshold?
Last about 1/4 second in the visual register.
What are Icons?
Was accidentally discovered by a psychologist when he was performing an experiment of learning.
What is Classical Conditioning?
This psychologist is known as the "Father of Psychology". He set up the first psychological laboratory at Leipzig Germany.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The state of Paradoxical Sleep. The stage of sleep where most dreams take place and accounts for approximately 25% of sleep.
What is REM Sleep?
There are 120 million of these receptor cells. They provide us with night vision. They help us see in the dark and in the light although they are very sensitive to the light.
What are Rods?
Reflects short-term memory. People can often remember items last of list due to this.
Recency Effect
A learned connection between the lack of appetite for certain foods and the feeling of nausea or revulsion.
What is Taste Aversion?
A visit to the Galapagos Island in 1835 led this psychologist to develop ideas on natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The hidden, unconscious meaning of the dream.
What is Latent Content?
Quality of texture of sound.
What is Timbre?
In charge of storing explicit memories.
Frontal Lobe
Taking ibuprofen to relieve body aches.
What is Negative Reinforcer?
This psychologist was involved in the unethical study of Classical Conditioning and experimented on a little boy who is known as "Little Albert".
Who is John B. Watson?
At night these events peak about every 90 minutes. They provide stress relief and encourage creativity.
What are Daydreams?
Often excreted by animals as a form of communication and a sign of wanting to mate.
What are Pheromones?
Takes place when information currently in memory interferes with incoming information.
What is Proactive Interference?
The idea that humans are inclined to develop phobias because of the survival value that the have.
What is Preparedness?
This psychologist studied psychology at Harvard and was a student of William James. This psychologist also developed an influential theory of self-psychology and an important research technique for verbal learning.
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
Governed by an area of the hypothalamus called the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN). Known as " The Biological Clock".
What are Circadian Cycles/Rhythms?
A pattern of sequential firing which ends up determining the pitch of a sound.
What is the Volley Principle?
Someone's recall for events can be influenced by what they have heard or a change in degree to what happened in the situation.
What is Eyewitness Testimony?
Playing slot machines follows a schedule of reinforcement.
What is Variable-Ratio Schedule/Reinforcement?
This psychologist and physician is known as one of the founders of experimental psychology. He came up with the theory that the difference threshold is a constant proportion of the specific stimulus.
Who is Ernst Weber?
Causes hand tremors, crankiness, hallucinations, inability to pay attention, and causes you to be sleepy.
What is deprivation of REM sleep?