Theories of Psych
Also known as "Internal Perception"
What is Introspection?
Participants are unaware if they are in a control group or experiment group; however, the researcher knows which are in each group.
What is a single-blind study?
This allows the recycling of valuable neurotransmitters.
What is reuptake?
These are stimuli from the external world. They can affect how you perceive and respond to your surroundings.
What is Environmental Stimuli?
A disease discovered by Bennet Omalu, in which he found physical evidence linking football-related brain injury and dementia.
What is CTE [Chronic traumatic encephalopathy]?
Studies how mental processes, behaviors, and activities help us adapt to our environment and experiences.
What is Functionalism?
Groups are designed to be the same except for one group receiving manipulation. This occurs so we can be sure any differences between the two are due to the variable being tested rather than chance.
What are experimental groups?
An electrical signal that moves down the neuron’s axon
What is Action Potential?
Taste molecules bind to receptors and cause chemical changes within the sensory cell.
These changes result in neural impulses being sent to the brain.
What is Transduction?
This trophy is awarded annually to the most outstanding player in college football. Winners epitomize great ability combined with diligence, perseverance, and hard work.
What is the Heisman Memorial Trophy?
Begins with understanding the conscious experience by dividing it into specific elements of the brain to identify the psychological experiences
What is Structuralism?
Identify the independent and dependent variable:
Over the past five years, school officials found student enrollment decreases at Southern Pacific University as the price of tuition increases.
Independent: Price of tuition
Dependent: Student enrollment
These are discharged into the bloodstream and travel throughout the body, affecting any cells that contain receptors for them.
What are Hormones?
What are Binaural Cues?
After relocation to Tennessee in 1997, the Titans were once known as this NFL team.
Who are the Houston Oilers?
Focuses on how the unconscious mind and early childhood experiences impact/shape the rest of an individual’s life, which includes personality and mental processes.
What is the Psychoanalytic Theory?
The relationship between two or more variables to determine if there is a statistical association/relationship between them.
What is Correlation (Research)?
Balance in how biological conditions are maintained, such as body temperature.
What is homeostasis?
This factor affecting our perception plays a significant role in determining what is sensed versus what is perceived.
What is Attention?
What are all the ways a team can score in football and how many points are they worth?
1. Touchdown (6 points)
2. Field Goal (3 points)
3. Free kick (3 points)
4. Drop Kick (3 points)
5. Safety (2 points)
6. Two-Point Conversion (2 points)
7. Extra Point [PAT] (1 point)
8. Unofficially official - PAT/2-PC Safety (1 point)
Wilhelm Wundt used this to understand how processing and categorizing of sound took longer than the hearing of it.
What is a Reaction Test [Speed of Thought]?
A type of research approach focusing on understanding and interpreting people’s experiences, beliefs, and behaviors through non-numerical data.
What is Qualitative Research?
Nature and nurture work together to shape who we are insofar our genes influence our environment, and our environment influences the expression of our genes.
What is the Genetic Environmental Correlation?
Interpretation of sensations is influenced by available knowledge, experiences, expectations, and thoughts to interpret incoming information.
What is Top-Down Processing?
Many football teams are known for their unique logos and emblems on their helmets.
This NFL team was the first to represent their mascot with a design on their helmets.
Who are the Los Angeles Rams [1947]?